Nightshade

I really liked this. Your use of language is phenomenal and you did a great job of giving a clear emotion while still being beautifully poetic. The wording of the ...

You did a pretty good job of arranging these. If not particularly meaningful, it was pretty poetic. Sometimes it's fun to just play with words like that. I personally like ...

I enjoyed this poem quite a bit. I especially liked the last stanza. You have a good idea and you developed it well. Your rhyming was a little bit distracting ...

Hey, I have a few suggestions. I left you in winter When the air grew cold (This line seems a bit too obvious. Everyone knows the air is cold in ...

My feelings are pretty mixed on this poem. I enjoyed (as always) your structure, language and rhythm. You have a very distinctive style that sets you apart from other writers ...

I left you a rose. It erased my smile. And made me shead a tear. Just the thought of it. Makes me sad. (The last two lines of this stanza ...

First off, many of the things I would say have already been said. You have some very helpful reviews on this piece already. Take their advice :) You do a ...

This is a poem that almost everyone can relate to and understand. Its simplicity and directness are what give it its draw, but for me they were also its biggest ...

This story held my interest, but there were a couple points that made me less than enthusiastic about the piece as a whole. Everything was a little bit too obvious. ...

Hi River, nice poem. I really liked the staccato, forceful rhythm that this was written with. It did a good job of emphasizing and enhancing the content. I also particularly ...

This is a refreshingly original love poem. It's always an accomplishment to write something like this without falling into cliche, and you've done it perfectly. I particularly enjoyed the line: ...

I've always loved acrostics even though they're looked down on by the majority of the literary world :) This poem isn't particularly earth-shaking, but I don't think it was meant ...

I agree with all of Quibbler's points. If you want this piece to stand out among the millions of musings about love being a puzzle, you'll need to work really ...

This is a very well done poem. Your word choice is excellent and I loved the idea of the descending list of flaws. The rhythm and flow you have here ...

I wasn't able to pull much out of this poem. There are just too many unknowns to really understand what's going on. Who is "you"? Who is the narrator? Why ...