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Re: dirty wine
This poem has very good imagery, so bravo, but the world 'mash' seems out of place, less romantic and passionate and more five-year-old-ish. Also, the ending kind of drifts off, ...
Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:52 am -
Re: Friendship.
I love these poems about friendship because everyone has a different way of looking at their friends. This was a beautiful poem, but he rhyme seemed kind of forced to ...
Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:44 pm -
Re: An Outcast that Doesn't Care.
This could work very well, except that you make us, the reader, see this boy as a loser, geek, freak, just like everybody else does. Does this boy really not ...
Sat Mar 31, 2007 8:42 pm -
Re: Catharsis
This was beautifully done, the way you made the first stanzas with their technological words sound poetic and then wrapped it up with something as pure as the last two ...
Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:55 am -
Re: Changing Raincoats
This was out of this world. I loved it. The only this was that the ending seemed sort of abrupt. I can't exactly think of a better way to wrap ...
Sat Mar 03, 2007 2:03 pm -
Re: How To Write A Poem
The verses that worked (1 and 3) were really, really good. I especially likes the first stanza. But then you got off track in your rhyme on the second one, ...
Sat Mar 03, 2007 1:59 pm -
Re: Bathtub Musings
This is a very good poem but a few things seemed off to me. The comparison between the bubbles and this person's life seemed to obscure; I would just stick ...
Mon Feb 19, 2007 3:09 pm -
Re: isn't it strange?
This was very good, but it seemed to stretch on too long with the same idea, which, by the way, is a good idea. It needs something to capture the ...
Sun Feb 18, 2007 6:27 pm -
Re: Pink bow
um. . .either this poem has some deep (very deep) meaning or I'm stupid. No offense, this poem sounds like something a third grader wrote when his teacher said "write ...
Wed Feb 14, 2007 7:37 pm -
Re: Goodbye forever
You seem to be a prizoner to your own rhyme, as if you just wrote the second or fourth line of some stanzas simply because you needed something to rhyme ...
Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:22 pm -
Re: Bullies, listen up
It's a great thought, so kudos on that front, but to be frank your lack of obvious rhythm was a little unappetizing. I don't mean to be rude, I just ...
Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:17 pm -
Re: Soldiers in a Wood
Nice. I agree with piepiemann that the last line is really abrupt, and with fireweed that the message should be subtler. Also the second two lines, about the uniform, I ...
Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:18 am -
Re: Kiss the Cook
I'm not quite sure what you were attempting here, but you certainly achieved something. I really got a picture of a bored business man at a diner and the stuff ...
Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:13 am -
Re: Act of Love
You know how it gets when you sort of scan a poem without caring much? Most of the poem was that way (very very good, but nothing that kept me ...
Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:18 pm -
Re: The Waves
very sweet Now on to business. You conjured up the image of a little square of ocean; try conjuring up the image of the whole ocean. Describe the whispering winds, ...
Mon Jan 01, 2007 1:51 pm
