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Re: Tourist
Hi Gahks-- I think a few things need to be done with this: -It needs to be less storylike. Less wordy. Less full sentences. -It needs to be more poemy. ...
Feb 6, 2008 -
Re: Waiting
Hi Weather-- I have two great suggestions here that will drastically change your poem in a great way: 1. Use punctuation in more than just the last stanza. Seriously, use ...
Feb 5, 2008 -
Re: The Park Bench
Hi lakegirls-- My biggest and really only pet peeve of this is that it isn't poetry. It's kind of hinted on being prose poetry, but really what it sounds like ...
Feb 5, 2008 -
Re: Waiting
Hi Crying Rain-- Well, there is nothing actually...[i]wrong[/] with this, per se. But the issue herein lies in the fact that it's boring and tired. Mostly, the fault is that ...
Feb 4, 2008 -
Re: Deleted
"OK, one-two-three." Alana [s]said[/s] counted down, and in unison [s]her[/s] she and Courtney winced once their knives swiped their skin. Courtney sighed and picked up her blood rag.
Feb 4, 2008 -
Re: fantasy
Hi Adna-- First, I like the swirly form, not many people play about with concrete forms on here so it's kind of refreshingly different. However, the words in the form ...
Feb 4, 2008 -
Re: Ecstacy
Hi cathy-- Well, I wasn't overly excited about this. It has some imagery, which is good...but I feel like there isn't enough in it to make a real difference for ...
Feb 4, 2008 -
Re: Did I?
Hi Adna-- Unfortunately, Em is right. There really isn't anything here that hasn't been said before in a better way. My biggest pet peeve, though, is that you have a ...
Feb 4, 2008 -
Re: Shiver down my Spine
Hi Floyd-- Reading this it sounds more like lyrics to me, especially with the rhyming and the repetition of the final two lines. Really, though, I'd like to see some ...
Feb 2, 2008 -
Re: My darkness
Hi Tania-- Welcome to YWS! Please take a moment to look over the Rules & Guides . We do ask that you make two reviews for everyone one piece of ...
Feb 1, 2008 -
Re: Just Around, 'Til Tomorrow
I really, really love the message in this! Really, it's amazing! A couple suggestions: Take out the "you" everywhere and make it "I". Poetry is a very personal thing, it's ...
Feb 1, 2008 -
Re: Lilac
Hi Night-- Welcome to YWS! Please take a look at the Rules & Guides . We do ask that you do two reviews of others work before posting every one ...
Feb 1, 2008 -
Re: What We Are (title change?)
Hello Idering-- I think I have told you this before, but just incase I haven't I'll repeat myself: You have to have punctuation in a poem like this. Without it ...
Feb 1, 2008 -
Re: Cherished Memories
Hello peter-- Welcome to the YWS! Please take a look at the Rules & Guides . We do ask that you make 2 critiques/reviews of others work before posting every ...
Jan 31, 2008 -
Re: My Mime
Hi souldier-- Well, this is kind of awkward. I severely missing the point if there is one, why should we care about someone abusing a mime? And why a mime? ...
Jan 30, 2008
