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Leja

  • Other Poetry Re: She thought, he knew

    ...repetition... To be fair, you warned me in the subject line, so I'll do nothing more than acknowledge that it's there :wink: The first stanza had a nice beat to ...

    Jun 16, 2007
  • Other Poetry Re: Ballad Of Maryling And Christian

    I wasn't sure at first if Maryling was a name or a misspelling of "marrying". The "Lovers not meant for this world" became a bit tiring after a while, especially ...

    Jun 15, 2007
  • Other Poetry Re: Little Shadow

    I was a bit torn about how to use the parentheses at first.... I decided for them to be like this so that however you read it, what I want ...

    Jun 15, 2007
  • Other Poetry Re: DRAGON

    I think that the last line of hte second stanza sounds odd... like there are too many things in it. Maybe something like "Surrounds and shrouds"? I don't know. And ...

    Jun 15, 2007
  • Other Poetry Re: Failed

    I'm assuming that this isn't actually the poem, but a "poem has been deleted" message?

    Jun 15, 2007
  • Other Poetry Re: Spill

    This made me laugh with the geriatric reference at the beginning. As for an actual critique? I don't know. It was rather short, so other than being humerous, it didn't ...

    Jun 15, 2007
  • Other Poetry Re: You don't know her

    :( no punctuation... It doesn't bite, I promise. Punctuation helps with everything from clarity to emphasis, and is just pretty darn cool in general. As for content, there seem to ...

    Jun 15, 2007
  • Other Poetry Re: Untitled

    In the first stanza, you ask a question, then immediately answer it. Personally, I'd withold the answer until the end; make the reader work for it, and make him/her understand ...

    Jun 15, 2007
  • Other Poetry Re: Vallelamor

    I think you have some good ideas here, but they've been clouded by lengthy words (though I did like the part about sand making castles by itself ^_^). See how ...

    Jun 15, 2007
  • Other Poetry Re: Alone

    The punctuation is used incorrectly throughout (there are also multiple incorrectly spelled words; make sure you catch as many as you can yourself before posting). For this reason, mostly, it ...

    Jun 15, 2007
  • Other Poetry Re: The Letter

    Try engaging the reader more in the poem. You say things like "every empty moment reminds me of you" but you leave out the how of it that can be ...

    Jun 15, 2007
  • Other Poetry Re: Crush

    Alot of the images you've used here have been used many times before (such as sea of ____/ _____ as dark as night). This wouldn't be as much of a ...

    Jun 15, 2007
  • Lounge, The Re: Featured Member 5/25/07

    ...remembers when Claudette had ridiculous amount of points... And congratulations to Snoink for having five red stars! And congratulations to Whence for being featured, currently!

    Jun 15, 2007
  • Other Poetry Re: dirty wine

    Double check your punctuation; oftentimes, semicolons are used when there should be a comma or no punctuation at all. The word "mash" in the third stanza doesn't seem to fit; ...

    Jun 15, 2007
  • Narrative Poetry Re: The Little Girl

    Oops, sorry I critiqued this before... well, I read it again, and here's what I have to add: This stanza: "The little girl looks up at the dark, night sky, ...

    Jun 15, 2007


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