Thriving Fire

Wonderful.... Intelligent, thoughtful, considered, I loved it. You made sure every word was important, which is a great touch- shows you really cared about what you wrote about. Some small ...

Hmm.. Me likes, methinks... When the world melts away Like the clouds with their rain From the frozen white To the thawed crisp green You see something more Nice opening, ...

Christ I feel under-qualified in critiquing this :) Well critique is the wrong word actually. I'd rather just ramble and babble in a complimentary manner, for this poem warrants it. ...

I like this, because of the fact that I like a lot of poetry I read here nowadays :D I'm not going to go through it line for line, I ...

Hmm, it's not a bad poem by any means, its actually quite good, but one or two things are irking me. Firstly, you veer dangerously close to cliche in your ...

But can't they find a more impressive way of expressing themselves? Sure, its conceptual, but seriously, create a conceptual masterpiece. A splodge requires no skill at all, AT ALL. It's ...

I like this but I'm going to give you my argument before critiquing it. Basically you can call anything that truly expresses someone's feelings art. Be that a box, be ...

Love it!!! I've always been of these kind of poems, with ordinary language given great depth and detail by splitting the lines. You force the reader to take every word ...

What's amazing about this is how well intertwined the two ideas are: you could take it as a poem all about getting run over, or sex, or both. It's all ...

I'm sick of being positive on here. Sick of reading poems that I instantly fall in love with and grow jealous of. And goddammit, tyou've gone and written me another ...

Loved it. The imagery's great, particularly in stanzas 4 and 5, where its somehow vivid and simple at the same time. The concept is nice, and the way you answer ...

I liked this, I really did. The imagery, and the atmosphere. Especially the atmosphere: I really get the sense of something apocalyptic, which is very cool. That's tied in with ...

Hmm... I could do the whole literary critic thing and analyse your expression, the flow of the piece, all that jazz, but I'm not in the mood. I'm gonna annoy ...

*gasps* wow, me like... :D Right, time to start speaking in proper sentences. Basically, your poem did to me what I've started noticing a lot in good poetry- it hit ...

Great work... What's striking about this is its positivity; your outlook on life (or the world, or whatever) seems to be really optimistic, and not satisfied to dwell on the ...