Kit

First, I'm not sure what the last two instruments are. I believe that you mean viola and saxophone. If they are, you spelled them wrong and the viola is not ...

I appreciate that you have Robert Frost in your signature, because this means that you know that Frost was, by and large, a stoic. I like that you combine the ...

I must vehemently disagree with VousEsEtonnant. Do not footnote polysyllabic word unless it is technical language. James Joyce wrote deliberately incomprehensible prose and expected people to dedicate

I think you need to think about pacing, how the words flow with the relation to your subject matter. You could take it in different directions, kind of make it ...

As you have an Alice in Wonderland thing in your profile, I'll put it like this. If you call a poem 'Jabberwocky', you back up your literary allusions and add ...

This is very earnest and honest. I like that it isn't heavy handed, you don't have extraneous words, you know, but oddly enough I would like to see it as ...

Bah. Okay. No. Look. This wants to be a sonnet so badly it is painful, because you gave up part way through. Sonnets are nothing to be ashamed of, structure, ...

I like the fragmented stream of consciousness thing, but I think that it is somehow too confined in itself. Your opening images are striking, it's a very visual piece, actually ...

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 ...

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 ...