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Re: A September Siken Thread
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Sep 1, 2010 -
Re: Undertows
Since I'm on a bit of a dissection roll tonight, I might as well continue. religion I actually used this one to help unlock the other two. Maybe I was ...
Aug 31, 2010 -
Re: Undertows
Okay, yes. I'm back. plums (this fell sergeant) Your titles are really something. 'Sergeant' - I want to know what this is referring to. This poem seems even more fleeting ...
Aug 31, 2010 -
Re: Undertows
Hey Kylan - Feels like it's been a long time, no read. And it interests me how you have grouped these according to theme - something even larger to unravel, ...
Aug 31, 2010 -
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Aug 30, 2010 -
Re: Meter
I went off rhyming poetry a while back, so rhythm went out the window with it too. I find that in general, rhythm probably hinders the flow more than anything ...
Aug 28, 2010 -
Re: Help Deciding
Firstly, I have no issue with a poem being a rehash of a short story. I've done it enough times myself - mixed and merged ideas, drawn from my poetry ...
Aug 28, 2010 -
Re: Miss Nostalgia
Hey writtenacrossmysoul (what may I call you that is shorter?!) - Your phrasing and juxtaposition of ideas reminded me a lot of one of my favourite poets, Richard Siken. And ...
Aug 26, 2010 -
Re: A Gesture Among Five Strangers
Hey sarg - It has indeed taken me some time to get here, but I am here. (You know, I read everything you write :)). And I must say that ...
Aug 25, 2010 -
Re: Your opinion on poetry.
What do you mean, 'love' doesn't rhyme prettily? Anyway - Siken is all about terrible beauty in incompleteness and all; a master of the free verse. I don't see what ...
Aug 24, 2010 -
Re: Winsomeness
Hi Hibiscus - So, something more graceful here, I see. Well, more interesting than the last I reviewed at any rate, and like one of your other ones, this had ...
Aug 23, 2010 -
Re: Writers' Crusade (Against Typo Demons)
Hey Kyllorac - Fitting that you should post this just as I was childishly falling in love with an old favourite rhyming poem. I will tell you this first off ...
Aug 23, 2010 -
Re: Ain't ya, kid
Hey Attolia - Long time, no read for sure. Firstly, I want to say that I love experimentation in style and voice - I think it's important to be reasonably ...
Aug 22, 2010 -
Re: Accents
NZ accent - usually. It's hideous. 'Seven' = 'Seevin,' 'Bed' = 'Beed,' 'Red' = 'Reed'. However, I talk in a mixture of the British/American/Indian accent at home so that my ...
Aug 22, 2010 -
Re: Kisses
Hey Hibiscus - Can't say I enjoyed this poem. Neither the subject matter struck me as particularly inventive, nor the way you addressed it. Mainly, whatever effect you wanted to ...
Aug 22, 2010
