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  • Narrative Poetry Re: Budding love

    An overlooked small seed at best, planted subtlety in my chest, slowly growing, I not knowing. I'd suggest some sort of stronger punctuation before "I not knowing", make it more ...

    May 18, 2008
  • Other Poetry Re: Dark Love <3

    Just edit this, please. Proper spelling, proper punctuation all that unimportant stuff.

    May 17, 2008
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: lustrous mortal

    I agree with what Vernon said. Consider narrowing your focus here - you seem to be saying so much about so many things that, well, I get lost in what ...

    May 17, 2008
  • Lyric Poetry Re: Eighteen Falling Stars

    I think you need to consider more carefully what it is that you are trying to convey in your poem. The first line for example, The night of 18 falling ...

    May 17, 2008
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Ice Cold Rain Drops on Failure

    The problem with having a poem completely rhyming and more so in rhyming couplets is that you are often forced to forsake meaning in the search for something that rhymes. ...

    May 16, 2008
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Broken Monotones

    It was pretty good - some of the imagery was nice and the ending provided a good finish. swirling around me in a crescendo of greys and faded greens, lifting ...

    May 16, 2008
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Silent River

    It was a peaceful, silent, autumn day. The leaves were abandoning their homes and gently gliding to the ground. The birds were chirping as they left their nests to fly ...

    May 15, 2008
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: The Fires Of My Fury

    Considering that you are attempting to write upon a very written topic you really need to spend a greater amount of time considering the various pitfalls associated with those topics, ...

    May 15, 2008
  • Lyric Poetry Re: Anthem Of The Broken Youth

    Title influenced by Wilfred Owen's Anthem for Doomed Youth? I agree with TimJim77, the capitals are annoying. First off I find the repetition of the same ending ("ight", "art" and ...

    May 15, 2008
  • Other Poetry Re: "Holding on"

    I understand you may feel this way but as a poem this wasn't very original at all. The imagery was weak - the strongest description probably was "crumbling down" or ...

    May 14, 2008
  • Lyric Poetry Re: When Last I Saw the Fisher

    Ah, okay - that makes things clearer. I've read parts of The Waste Land and I had read the translation of the epigraph but didn't make the connection. So would ...

    May 14, 2008
  • Lyric Poetry Re: When Last I Saw the Fisher

    I quite liked it. The narrative moved forward rhythmically, everything was nicely phrased and had a good ring to it. The boatman, star and the voice are difficult to understand. ...

    May 14, 2008
  • Other Poetry Re: Dreamed, Dreaming

    Thanks for the reviews - The yes' do have a meaning, probably to vague or obscure to anyone but me or someone thinking similarly. It was an idea I borrowed ...

    May 14, 2008
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: They Come and They Go.

    I didn't like this too much. Your topic, love thats not meant to be, leaves a whole mass of potential descriptions or methods for presenting it but the descriptions in ...

    May 14, 2008
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Ms. Apt Diagnosis

    Let’s lie in fields of feline flowers 9 where the blades pierce and the whiskers tickle— 10 ........There, can you be free? 5 where the air is too black to ...

    May 12, 2008


It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind