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  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: You whispered winter

    Immediate impression: zoh my gosh, I love the title :D And there was a moment paused within the inhale ^ nice! You whispered winter, clutching build the stone-work of the ...

    Sep 26, 2007
  • Poetry » Narrative, General Re: Summer of First Love

    The season of love Has come again Yet I still find myself Trapped inside my frozen heart This seems to be the general idea of your poem so I don't ...

    Sep 26, 2007
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: Time

    So much sand imagery is spent dealing with the idea of time. I think it would be interesting if you picked something else, something uncommon: maybe blades of grass, or ...

    Sep 25, 2007
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: A Life Left Behind

    There are alot of things being dealt with here. In the first stanza alone, there are thoughts of calm, loneliness, maybe a bit of nostalgia, but what do any of ...

    Sep 25, 2007
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: Neverending Winter

    This is written in such a lovely style. I like it alot. I think that the stanzas could be better grouped, so that it's not so much two lines, then ...

    Sep 25, 2007
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: Midnight Sonnet

    This poem confuses me to no end because the imagery and references seem all over the place, in my opinion. I think they could be a little more focused? You ...

    Sep 25, 2007
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: A violin

    There is nothing special happening here; it appears only as a description of a violin, and I think that's all it was intended to be. While some poetry can hold ...

    Sep 25, 2007
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: Touched

    There's something about it, like a dead man's bony fingers on his coffin lid, that slips through me, ^ lovely image! :D I didn't like how it was followed by ...

    Sep 25, 2007
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: I'll Come

    Poems written for people are difficult for the author to be objective about. Here, we have a long list of reassurances, that the narrator will always be there presumably for ...

    Sep 25, 2007
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: The Old Clown

    There are alot of things happen -ing in the first stanza, but I can't see where it's going. The repetition in the third stanza annoyed me after a few lines ...

    Sep 25, 2007
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: Autumn Breeze

    My biggest problem was the metaphor used. Breeze and wind is always described everywhere as speaking, or whispering, or singing, or caressing. But think: do you hear the breeze as ...

    Sep 25, 2007
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: So many yards away...

    This seems more of a rant than a well-thought out expression of emotion. While poetic prose and prosaic poetry exists, the block of text in rigid sentence structure puts me ...

    Sep 25, 2007
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: This place

    Personally, I think it sounds more ramble-y than poetic: I mean, I did take five peoples lives, I did blow up a bus. I did kidnapped a child. [side note: ...

    Sep 25, 2007
  • Novel / Chapter » Science Fiction, General Re: Kri'sha -- Vetren'iy Sketch #2

    I adore the way you write, Imp, a lovely mix of action and description. Watch out for sentences like these, though: "With a glance over his shoulder,the slight young man ...

    Sep 24, 2007
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Do you see?

    All in all, I don't see much of a purpose for this poem. My mind glazed over the repeated questions, and once you take those away, not much is happening, ...

    Sep 24, 2007


When a flower doesn't bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.
— Alexander Den Heijer