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Re: Big Brown Eyes
Aw! This poem is so sweet! I love how you describe the setting and the little girl. These lines were my favorites: "you could still see her frozen cheeks, where ...
Aug 29, 2010 -
Re: Sea Ballet
This was simply beautiful. The imagery is both vague and evocative, presenting a translucent mirage of blue and white. I'm still a little hazy on what it's actually about, but ...
Aug 29, 2010 -
Re: Eternity
I didn't exactly understand how the three stanzas connect to each other; but maybe that's one of those "you'd have to know about it" scenarios. I thought the poem was ...
Aug 29, 2010 -
Re: An Ode To The Ocean
This poem was definitely amusing. Actually, at the beginning I thought it was going to be serious and poetic, like most of my poems about the ocean; but then it ...
Aug 29, 2010 -
Re: Undertows
Whoa...this is one heck of a poem...or should I say three? I must admit I had no idea what in the world you were talking about half the time, but ...
Aug 29, 2010 -
Re: I'm Standing
Well, welcome to the weird, wild, and wonderful world of poetry, dear! I am really hesitant to seriously critique anything here, as it is my personal belief that poetry is, ...
Aug 29, 2010 -
Re: Ramblings I
Oh my goodness. This is a wonderful poem. It obviously is very scatterbrained, but that happens to me more often than I want to think about: I feel so much, ...
Aug 29, 2010 -
Re: Russian Roulette
Wow, I found this poem a bit disturbing, illustrating what very likely were the speaker's final moments. Your detail and tension are both very good. One thing I would suggest ...
Aug 29, 2010 -
Re: evangelical evangelists have eaten all our food again.
Wow, that was...different. Very, very different. In a good way. I'm not going to pretend I really understood it, but that's not always a bad thing. I suppose it was ...
Aug 26, 2010 -
Re: I Wish I Could Tell You
Aw!! This poem is so sweet and funny; it made me smile. I thought of my own dog while reading it, a golden retriever who is utterly obsessed with me ...
Aug 26, 2010 -
Re: Daughter
Hm, I like this. I don't quite get the "daughter" thing, maybe you could tell us a little more about the person whose daughter she is? BUt the girl is ...
Aug 26, 2010 -
Re: An Insomniac's Poem
OH MY GOSH. That was probably the most beautiful thing I have read this year. Your imagery is lovely and dreamlike, absolutely fitting. I really can't find anything to critique ...
Aug 14, 2010 -
Re: Oh how I hate the stars
This poem was both sad and amusing in its own special way. I'm afraid it doesn't evoke much sympathy in me, as I love the stars and am a total ...
Jul 20, 2010 -
Re: Three Letters
Haha. How quaint! Short and sweet; I liked it. The thing is, if you were dying and you pulled your lover close and whispered "I...L...Y" it's quite possible they might ...
Jul 18, 2010 -
Re: What is a hair without a head?
Haha!! I liked this. It was witty and imaginative, and I think it's sweet that you wrote it for your grandparents, of all people. I mean, nobody seems to do ...
Jul 14, 2010
