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Velvet.whispers

  • Other Poetry Re: The Pyre-Men.

    Hey this is wonderful, a lot more focused than the last one i reviewed, the only thing critique I can think of is that your ending is really disappointing! Here ...

    Mar 23, 2009
  • Lyric Poetry Re: Whistling the same ugly tune.

    Wow, I love this, it's a bit awkward at moments, but even it's awkwardness has it's value: you know how sometimes a work's weakness is it's greatest asset, while I ...

    Mar 23, 2009
  • Other Poetry Re: My 21st century Prince Charming, a love sonnet

    Dear iCarlyfan had you read what is posted above, you would know that this is what is known as a french sonnet, and that for this type of sonnet there ...

    Mar 23, 2009
  • Other Poetry Re: My 21st century Prince Charming, a love sonnet

    Haha you are so gullible, it is rhyme lol xx

    Mar 22, 2009
  • Other Poetry Re: You can't buy me over

    Hey, although I love short poems, I think this one could be a little longer, it would give your surprising ending a little twist. I saw you're new here and ...

    Mar 22, 2009
  • Other Poetry Re: My 21st century Prince Charming, a love sonnet

    Nope it wasn't you, it was June/ spring rain!

    Mar 22, 2009
  • Other Poetry Re: My 21st century Prince Charming, a love sonnet

    haha no darko, i cannot give you my name, that would just ruin all the fun of it! If my screen name is mysterious, it shall remain so! As for ...

    Mar 22, 2009
  • Other Poetry Re: Is this not love?

    To Pgsgirl7 and iCarlyfan, read Keats and you'll understand that anglophone poetry is not about reality or what "makes sense", but about what manages to create a mental image, an ...

    Mar 22, 2009
  • Other Poetry Re: My 21st century Prince Charming, a love sonnet

    He is proud, arrogant, stubborn and tall. My lord's armour is of leather, his visor of plastic, When he speaks of me he is not lyrical but sarcastic; And he ...

    Mar 20, 2009
  • Lyric Poetry Re: She

    Hey i like this, some bits are weird, and some images aren't quite right, but there are some really nice ones! I love the sailor and the bird bit, it's ...

    Mar 17, 2009
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Heliotropes

    Were my eyes sunflowers of gold: Your face would be the the sun they wish to behold. When your light shines through the tears I cannot withhold, Watch the upside ...

    Mar 17, 2009
  • Narrative Poetry Re: Helping Hand

    Ok, here goes stanza by stanza! From my view sitting on the graffitied bus bench, I watched the cars reflecting the light like sea glass As they drove past. A ...

    Mar 17, 2009
  • Other Poetry Re: .

    Hey, i think this is interesting because it's so elliptic and mysterious, but I might suggest on reworking the shape of it, or maybe writing a second stanza, maybe give ...

    Mar 17, 2009
  • Lyric Poetry Re: Unwiling to Understand

    Here goes chronologically: I'm afraid that the stanza is not, in my opinion better without the suddenly, because otherwise the rhythm is too regular and conventional which makes the stanza ...

    Mar 17, 2009
  • Lyric Poetry Re: Unwiling to Understand

    Black sailed tears my young one is a metaphor for tears as ships with black sails!! And no, it's not a typo, the apostrophe indicates the fact I have voluntarily ...

    Mar 16, 2009


Edna began to feel like one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul.
— Kate Chopin, The Awakening