Nightshade

This is a very powerful piece. You clearly put a lot of emotion into writing this, and you've made it so that the reader can pull out that emotion and ...

I really enjoyed this poem. I've never read the book, but it still held my interest, which says a lot. You did a good job of making your rhymes flow ...

The last stanza really made this poem for me. The idea that the abused are standing right among us and we ignore them is a deeply moving one. I also ...

This is a story I wrote a few months ago. I recognize it for the bizarre and jumbled mess that it is, but there's something about it that I love ...

Hi element, interesting poem. You do a good job of setting a scene and conveying a mood. I had some problem with your rhyme scheme, as it seems to go ...

I immediately liked this poem after my first read-through. The multiple meanings and the richness of forest imagery have a lot of potential. I like some of the repetition of ...

There's some good imagery in this poem. You clearly are talented with arranging and choosing your words. The jumpy style and sheer number of symbols kept me from really pulling ...

Thank you for the feedback. It means a lot to me. I intended this poem to be about the process of recovering from painful or traumatic events, with the initial ...

This poem does a great job of conveying its intended emotion and meaning. It's one of the best I've encountered on this site. I also was confused by the eleventh ...

Hey you, I was sitting alone at the kitchen table eating dinner. A ham sandwich. Kinda sad isn’t it? That’s about as good as my dinners have been coming lately. ...

I really like the meaning behind this poem. The tree is a great symbol for everything that humans frivolously go to war over. Like lilymoore I particularly enjoyed the imagery ...

-I love the intensity and the fact that the anger and attitude never fades throughout the entire poem. -If this poem is meant to push people to understand your point ...

Great poem. The comparison between death and winter allows the meaning to be really deeply understood. I also really like the section in which the writer is speaking directly to ...

Excellent use of imagery. It took a couple of read-throughs to pick up on and understand all of the different symbolic elements. The only section I'm not sure about is ...

When you woke beneath sheets of lead You struggled free of your broken bed And stepped out into the crumbling hall Where spiders crept upon peeling walls For years you'd ...