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Re: Alone and falling
Dearest Raven, Welcome! I hope you find YWS hospitable and, further, beneficial to your personal musings and maturity. As for the poem, I am left wondering: What is going on ...
Aug 4, 2006 -
Re: thoughts through scissor blades
Hey Miss Murder, Can I offer up a critique? Enjoy some inline comments with hot chocolate: Let me (try to) understand [:] There’s (this ) [a] feeling in my hand ...
Aug 1, 2006 -
Re: Gambling in Paris
Hey bob, Surely this piece should be a great success here for the rose garden soppy love devotees legion. Among us urban dwellers, however, this is in need of repair. ...
Jul 30, 2006 -
Re: Apple Butter Charm
Dear xanthan, I hope you appreciate some in-line commentary. Apple grinds are not filtered out(,) [;] ( and) [they] cling to (the insides of your )capillary walls [inside you] , ...
Jul 30, 2006 -
Re: So Many Rectangles
Hi yoha, I find this very long as it is trying to find something worth saying. In that sense it is far, far too short. There might be something in ...
Jul 30, 2006 -
Re: Sand in my Ballet Shoes (revised)
xanthan, A few in-line comments for you to use or lose. Most of this is working pretty well. Romancing sand-dancer, I’m on the pirate shore, hand in hand with destiny ...
Jul 29, 2006 -
Re: Mother
Hi Jiggy, -The poem has good elements, apparently. -Others here have seen these good elements. I tend to go hard on morose, hopeless, blizzardedly ((okay, this is fun)) assertive-loser poems. ...
May 10, 2006 -
Re: Denim sheets and twin sized mattress
Hi Colier and welcome to YWS! This poem is problematic for me because you are a little too prosaic in your descriptions. Some instances in the piece, and especially the ...
May 5, 2006 -
Re: accoustic heart
Thank you all for the kinds words. The piece really isn't deserving of them. Rease, I refuse to tell you the meaning of my poem. A poem's meaning varies from ...
Apr 23, 2006 -
Re: Unforgiving
Hi again, Aenvgiel-- I'm not sure this poem is working. Somebody is sure to say that the poem is reportage, but that does not bother me. What the poet reports ...
Apr 20, 2006 -
Re: He Walked Among the Unspoiled Rushes
Hi ZanyPlebian, I like the first strophe. My only quibble is that "free soul" is such a non-descriptive term, when compared to the rest of the piece. It doesn't really ...
Apr 20, 2006 -
Re: Of the Rain
Hi Ainvgiel, This is a confusing work, to say the least. The punctuation here breaks up the flow of the poem with little or no benefits in return. I cannot ...
Apr 20, 2006 -
Re: Silence (Read+Review!)
Hi volleychik992, Welcome to YWS; I don't think I've met you yet, so I hope you enjoy it here. Now, on to your poem... I don't see the correlation between ...
Apr 20, 2006 -
Re: graveyards and roses (me and you)
Wilting roses is a fine metaphor. However, the rose i gave you last night, dripping with raindrops and lost tears, is OTT. I was confused as to exactly what you ...
Apr 3, 2006 -
Re: use me
My sincerest apologies for posting this: it is no poetic piece. To the contrary, it dabbles in the realms of prosaic characterization at which point verse loses meaning. In a ...
Apr 2, 2006
