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April 28 Writer’s Block (Chaucerian Roundel) In these, grave corridors of bone Yoked together by flesh and vein, The mind waits to be freed again. The writer’s muse is trapped, ...

Penguin! I had no idea you were such an awesome poet :O These are lovely.

I confess, I have been distracted all day. This is all I could produce on short notice and in a woefully difficult form. April 27 The Honeybee (Virelai Ancien) A ...

April 26 Of Windmills and Bon-Bons (Ottava Rima) Out here on the hills as in a white city, They endure like giants, looming over the land. Still stalks and striving ...

I was lazy today: I did haikus. I might come back and do another poem later, because dude - that's just weak XD Also, Happy Anzac Day. April 25 Goldfish ...

April 24 Memories, Like Weeds, Flourish Best When Undisturbed (Pindaric Ode) I am dropping stones behind me, on the pathway by the grocery – you know the one, where we ...

April 23 Stuck in Traffic (Ghazal) Some days I feel I can’t get a word in; Life rushes by too fast for me to be heard in. I sit in ...

What a lovely metaphor :) I really like the final stanza of this, and the idea of colours being wiped off someone's face like paint. That said, though, I think ...

No offense, but I think this is perhaps one of those poems that's best when it's shared only between those it has meaning for. I really feel that, as a ...

Mm, it's not awful, exactly, but it is a bit cliche and self-absorbed. I think the major problem with it is that, although you describe what you (or the poet) ...

This was very interesting; I like the twist at the end - you're expecting it to be all romantic, only it isn't, which successfully negates the cliche feel of some ...

April 22 The Isle of Is (Heroic Rispetto) In water, like a mirror, you reflect O drownèd city; there your beauty fades Beneath its weight. Your towers are bedecked With ...

That was lovely; what a fantastic image! I don't think I'll look at bicycles the same way again XD That said, though, there were a few things I thought you ...

I quite like this - it's very expressive. Just a few things I think you need to watch. Firstly, word choice: I think that "yank" is perhaps too violent an ...

I adore the beginning of this; it really is a lovely image. The rest gets a bit repetitive in places (I think your'e reusing words deliberately, though, so that's OK), ...