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  • Poetry » General, Dramatic Re: hymne a l'amour

    Hai :3 Such a neat poem!! This is so achy and restrained!! I love how this poem feels like it is circling love without being able to speak about it ...

    May 21
  • Poetry » Realistic, General Re: taste my silence [the way i tasted your betrayal]

    Hai :3 Firstly, I love how this poem treats apology as an intrusion instead of the traditional idea of healing. That is SUCH a strong central idea!! It's a simple ...

    May 20
  • Poetry » Culture, Health Re: Rain...?

    Hai :3 Oh my, this has such a heavy, reflective sadness to it!! I love how you use weather as both an emotional mirror and something that resists being understood. ...

    May 20
  • Poetry » General, General Re: wolf

    Hai :3 I wrote half of a review for this and never finished it >.< This is so intimate and vicious at the same time though!! I love how the ...

    May 20
  • Poetry » Politics, Realistic Re: Just like everyone else.

    Hai :3 Such a necessary poem!! There’s something so powerful about how direct the language is here. It doesn’t try to hide behind metaphor at first; it speaks plainly, almost ...

    May 20
  • Poetry » General, General Re: schrodinger's concealment

    Hai :3 This is so grim and theatrical in a really striking way!! There’s this intense fatalism running through the whole poem, like the speaker isn’t moving toward death so ...

    May 20
  • Poetry » Realistic, General Re: Child in the 21st century.

    Hai :3 Oh wow, this is so sharp and despairing!! There’s this frantic, accusatory rhythm running through the whole thing, like the speaker is trying to explain something impossible while ...

    May 20
  • Poetry » Romantic, Dramatic Re: you appear out of nothing, like you've left me for good

    Hai :3 This poem is so tender and aching!! There’s such a soft, intimate loneliness here, like the whole poem exists in that strange half-space between memory, fantasy, and grief ...

    May 20
  • Poetry » Realistic, Dramatic Re: Sisyphus: Your Wrongs Haunt Me

    Hai :3 Ohhh, adore this!! This poem is absolutely devastating!! There’s such a raw, spiraling ache to this poem, and I really admire how honestly it captures the horror of ...

    May 20
  • Poetry » Lyrical, Spiritual Re: The Waves

    Hai :3 Yay, short poetry!! This is so quiet and devastating!! I love how short it is, because the restraint makes the emotion feel even heavier. There’s this eerie calm ...

    May 20
  • Poetry » Realistic, Literature Re: caw, caw

    Hai :3 What a neat poem!! I love how the poem keeps circling back to “corpses” until the word becomes less like a single image and more like its entire ...

    May 18
  • Poetry » General, Realistic Re: The Sun Always Finds A Way In

    Hai :3 Ohhh this is so quietly tense and beautiful!! I love how the poem takes something usually warm and comforting, the afternoon sun, and makes it feel almost intrusive ...

    May 18
  • Poetry » General, General Re: Recipe for Self-Love

    Hai :3 Oh oh oh this is such a fun, spiraling poem!! I love how it feels almost like a clock coming apart in the middle of a city. There’s ...

    May 18
  • Poetry » Realistic, Dramatic Re: ars (ours) poetica

    Hai chi :3 Whoa, your poetry has changed... I love how this poem feels like it’s thinking while walking, or maybe thinking after almost not surviving a walk. There’s this ...

    May 18
  • Poetry » Narrative, Realistic Re: Loneliness

    Hai :3 This is such a painfully honest poem!! It captures loneliness in such a direct, aching way, and I really admire how unguarded it feels. There’s no attempt to ...

    May 18


You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot stop Spring from coming.
— Pablo Neruda