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Re: Lonely Dog
Could you vague this up more, you tell us about three dogs, guessing all the same one, but you give us no real feeling since it's all told rather than ...
May 2, 2008 -
Re: Beyond my window
It's all well and good, but you tell us a place, which you could do it in less stanzas. Because overall it gets boring after a while, this couldn't stand ...
May 2, 2008 -
Re: Courage
You're far too harsh, this was nothing short of great. Seriously I wasn't expecting David and Goliath. Some of it is worded awkwardly though: To stay at home within the ...
May 2, 2008 -
Re: Death
My main problem is you have a good structure going on then you go and ruin it by making the last stanza more lines. This not only ruins the goodness ...
May 1, 2008 -
Re: Love and Sin
Hmm, okay. You've a nice idea but some bits you force the rhyming so it makes little sense. I'll show: Waters fall from sky to ground, nourishing the trees they ...
May 1, 2008 -
Re: Stop and Smile
Mizz, this is just too telly. You have an idea making us try to relate but what this comes off as is just someone trying to preach to the readers, ...
May 1, 2008 -
Re: Song in My Head
Song in My Head A simple tune Playing in my head Over and Over. From a song Written long ago The words just slipping out of my mouth. And as ...
May 1, 2008 -
Re: Don't Slip Away
This is very cliche... you bring nothing new to the idea pallet. It's really same-old same-old. You don't let us experience any of this feeling, you just tell us. This ...
May 1, 2008 -
Re: before, our breath held us.
Um... I didn't get this. You've great word choice but this really made no sense to me. So many ideas flung at you at once it's hard to totally understand. ...
May 1, 2008 -
Re: A Holocaust Requiem
Interesting, I've one problem with this poem. The second last stanza is beautoiful but doesn't really add anything to to this poem: They say that the flag of Israel has ...
May 1, 2008 -
Re: There
You know repetition can emphasise but it can also whack you metaphorically on the head when you go overboard. Instead of repeating the same phrase use variety. Because people soon ...
Apr 30, 2008 -
Re: The Forgotten
Kinda creepy, seriously. I like how ya have some originality to this, but if ya didn't repeat the images and went for langauge techniques like metaphors or some others. More ...
Apr 30, 2008 -
Re: A Pessimist/ And other poems.
I just wrote this at impulse. I've never written any poems before, please try to not to be hard on me. :) ___________________________________ These claws reach ever deeper, I don't ...
Apr 30, 2008 -
Re: Breaking Through
Not terribly original. But you pulled it quite well and not total nauseating. Maybe try and actually get some originality in this. It would strengthen the theme. Another thing put ...
Apr 30, 2008 -
Re: Unbound
Tis intresting. I feel no real problem with it. It's a nice metaphor and fairly original. The only nitpick is keep the rhyme or lose it. That's really all. Overall: ...
Apr 30, 2008
