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Re: Galerius meets Richard Siken meets Jacques Brel
the song: Une Valse A Mille Temps - Jacques Brel . For your amusement. It's worth listening to the end.
Aug 14, 2010 -
Re: How to avoid copycatting?
I'm not really sure that copycatting is the best word. After all, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and all, and these days an 'original' idea - an idea ...
Aug 14, 2010 -
Re: La Luna y el DelfĂn (The Moon and the Dolphin)
Hey Solvalery - I thought at first that I'd critique it in Spanish, but I won't for a couple of reasons: my Spanish is not advanced enough, vocabulary-wise, to articulate ...
Aug 14, 2010 -
Re: ShortSad
Hi leftnoa - When I see a poem as humorously cynical as this, I am intrigued. There is something so fascinating about the style, a kind of mundane character assessment ...
Aug 14, 2010 -
Re: Right Now
Hey Jon - There's something interesting about the tone here, the simplicity of it that does not at all border on the mundane, the kind of easy acceptance and non-judgemental ...
Aug 14, 2010 -
Re: Weathermen
Kylan - I did actually read this when you first posted it, but wondered if there was much point in critiquing something so obviously autobiographical. Not that I cannot critique ...
Aug 14, 2010 -
Re: kissing lessons
Hey Kylan - Obviously, I don't see this as a poem just about peaches, what with the metaphor you take the extra mile to highlight in your title and all. ...
Aug 14, 2010 -
Re: Viruses
Hey Kylan - So, a maddening piece, a wholly unsatisfying one - and that is meant in the best of all possible ways. That effective use of conflict upon unresolved ...
Aug 11, 2010 -
Re: Small Tremors
Kylan - I have been rethinking some things about this piece. I had two major ideas - Firstly, when I mentioned conflict/head/heart: I can see the piece is subtle. That's ...
Aug 2, 2010 -
Re: Is religion good for the people/the world?
This is certainly intriguing - not necessarily new. You want to know the individual and social costs and benefits of religion without evaluating its correctness. Seems like a rather scientific ...
Aug 1, 2010 -
Re: Small Tremors
Hey Kylan - I have been trying to decide what I felt about this piece for some time now. Whether I felt. Whether I was supposed to feel. Small Tremors ...
Jul 31, 2010 -
Re: Gathering at the Light
Hey Sarg - Other than a snapshot of someone that we cannot at all discern is an ex-wife from the poem, did you want to incorporate some longer lasting effect ...
Jul 30, 2010 -
Re: Falling Slowly
Hi Jagged - Been meaning to review this for a time, as you know. Actually, I hardly think it needs a review, since it is so beautifully written. There is ...
Jul 30, 2010 -
Re: The Ultraviolet Catastrophe -- Summer Poetry 2010
This latest was just about to begin growing on me until the latter half, whereupon it summarised the main idea too quickly. I'll start off by saying that I liked ...
Jul 30, 2010 -
Re: Snowflakes from Erebus
Hi Galerius - I think I have read this poem too many times. I dreamed of it recently. That is the downfall of a photographic memory and an insatiable curiosity. ...
Jul 29, 2010
