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This actually has some strong observational elements, you've avoided forced structural cliche, and there is some evocative imagery. I really enjoy poems that are familiar, that have a rightness to ...

Now begins the hazing! Everyone get your paddles!

Well, you've already gotten your ego stroking from ab5986, "the best poem I have ever read", that's a big call. I didn't see this as a poem so much as ...

Call this Ars Poetica! Because it is one, and people will think you are more intelligent just because you have classical allusions in your work. It worked for AD Hope. ...

Well, this is content over style so allow me to comment in a content over style way. My housemate recently drew my attention to this organisation, To Write Love On ...

So more and more I'm coming around to the idea of the prose poem because it is cool and hip, and all the other kids are doing it, and so ...

This toilet humour of yours, God did it better: Song of Solomon 5:4-5 "My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved ...

I wouldn't object to a boring rape scene. I really wouldn't. It i involves irrational emotional reactions, so, probably I would find a boring rape scene more realistic, because of ...

I have absolutely no objection to literary minimalism, but be warned, as you've probably copped from this lot already, it does take fairly masterful twists of phrase to be as ...

Cruda Amarilli Cruel Amaryllis, who even with the 'bitterness' Of your name, alas, bitterly teach; Amaryllis, purer and more beautiful Than the white privet, But deafer, fiercer and more fugacious ...

Lottë and the German Student " Ich fing an. I began. Ich habe angefangen. I have begun. Ich hatte angefangen. I had begun." I keep my eyes on the music. ...

What permanently turned me off Stephen King's prose was a line in the Langoliers. A guy saves a girl's life, and the way he expressed her gratitude was, "She looked ...

You know what's the fun part about writing about a supposedly controversial issue? People start ripping into one another for the substance and ignore the style. God knows I've had ...

You have a brain, and I'm not into handing out attagirls, so I'm not going to go easy on you, newbie. You have some decent ideas in here, but it ...

I the only one who got that this was blatant proselytizing? As a musician (thus familiar with Requiems) and a Christian (thus familiar with the Revelations) I'm incensed. This is ...