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Well, thank you all; I forgot all about this little piece (an interesting one to come back to...), so ta muchly for taking the time to read it. Appriciated.

Bob thinks that talking about yourself in the third person is a sign of madness. AHHHHHH. *Ahem*, sorry: Senor Stalker has a point, but however true is all is, we ...

Terrorist rhetoric? Heh. Tell him his teaching is white supremisist neo-Colonial socialisation. That one always makes them think for just long enough to beat a hasty exit.

Yeah, I should skip intros. They kind of screw things up. Anyway, as for the stille nacht - it was kind of meant to be ironic: the Christmas Carol "silent ...

Er. Isn't a haiku normally 5/7/5 syllables or 2/3/2 in metrical feet?

Yes. Since it's not done, all I can say for critique is to make sure you get the punctuation in.

By the looks of things, he fell afoul of an unintentional "pre" tag; I reckon he's intelligent enough to know how line-breaks work :D

:oops: well, thank you m'dear, but I'd never be worth catching in any case.

Yeah, pretty much everything important's been said, because there's only one main point - make it poetry. And then it might be better for the poetry section.

Thanks for the encouragement, guys: something Incandescence said, about finding and dealing with your poetic voice kind of hit a nerve, a little while back - I guess this was ...

Reichieru, if you're being taught anything, part of that is learning what your limits are, and how you should best achieve higher and better skills. Before you do differentiation in ...

I didn't mean stop using rhymes until she's better at ryhming; I mean stop using them until she's better at poetry in general. Using rhyme effectively - *especially* in free ...

You've not done horrendously with the hyphens, but you don't have a single colon, and only two semi-colons: for a prose piece of this size, that really needs some improvement.

I was going to write something for this challenge, but I just gave up even bothering to compete. Hot-rockin' craziness.

Hah. Thanks, silver ;) much obliged to ya. Sorry about all the dots - I couldn't get the spacing to work properly otherwise.