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Matt Bellamy

  • Poetry » Other, General Re: Sky

    Hello! There is a lot of repetition in here, and when something is repeated once or twice, it works quite well, but if there's too much, it becomes less effective. ...

    Feb 26, 2010
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: The End

    Hello! I'm not sure what to say to this, I found it rather strange. The end of the first line seemed to be forced to make it rhyme with the ...

    Feb 26, 2010
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: Love is Better in the Snow

    I agree with MayApple that the lines are a little difficult to read when they're that long, so maybe try splitting them as she suggested. I also thought the first ...

    Feb 26, 2010
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: Scared Writer

    Hi! This is short and sweet, but I think it could flow a lot better. The third line sounds a little too long and interrupts the flow a bit, so ...

    Feb 26, 2010
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Love's Most Sinister Whisper

    Hello! I really like this. It's well written, has good rhyming and it flows well. However, a couple of lines, such as "Trapped forever in love's labyrinth abyss" were a ...

    Feb 26, 2010
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: the pain of war

    Hey! This poem has potential. There are a few niggly little things, though - in the fourth line you say "I am scared," and this is very blunt. I think ...

    Feb 26, 2010
  • Poetry » Narrative, General Re: the problem with poetry

    Hello! I usually don't like poems about writing poetry, but this was pretty good. It's light-hearted, just as a poem with this theme should be, and the rhyming scheme adds ...

    Feb 17, 2010
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: old nights

    Hi! There are a lot of ideas crammed into this poem, loads of imagery, and I like it. I like the idea of nights being old. It sounded to me ...

    Feb 17, 2010
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: You Came Too Late

    Hi! I quite like the imagery in this - the snow, the rain, etc, though it is a little cliché, waiting in the rain for someone. I like the rhyming ...

    Feb 13, 2010
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Cracking Ice

    I like the theme to this poem, and how you kept it throughout. However, this is a bit confusing, the way it's written: "Bittersweet wind, crisp / stinging my face". ...

    Feb 13, 2010
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Stay with me

    The rhyming is indeed forced. You could try just thinking about what you want to say and what you want your reader to get from the poem - that should ...

    Feb 13, 2010
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: Never stopping.

    Hey Amy! I quite liked this because it could be interpreted in different ways, and different readers can apply it to different situations and possiby relate to it, which is ...

    Feb 13, 2010
  • Poetry » Narrative, General Re: Starfire

    I really like this. I don't know the story it's based on, but right from the start, I was pulled in. The first couple of lines were so simple yet ...

    Feb 13, 2010
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: The Depiction of Dreams

    This is very interesting. I wasn't sure at first what you were trying to achieve with the italics, but I guess, someone is speaking. I was also unsure about the ...

    Feb 13, 2010
  • Poetry » Narrative, General Re: Greed

    This is a good start. I think it sounds a little abstract at the moment, and could perhaps do with being more specific - what, exactly, in terms of money, ...

    Feb 12, 2010


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