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  • Dramatic Poetry Re: I Can't Sleep

    Hi. Let me say first off that I love how well you pulled off the rhymes in this poem and I love the idea you wrote about. The first two ...

    Jul 24, 2011
  • Other Poetry Re: Psithurism

    - whispering sound - & (I feel like I should know this) At the very least, I can say I learned a few things while reading this poem. I have ...

    Jul 24, 2011
  • Romantic Short Stories Re: Falling Slowly

    Hello again, This was a very cute story, especially as a new twist on a slightly tired idea. I have a few issues that are small but general. Dear Beautiful ...

    Jul 24, 2011
  • Lyric Poetry Re: The way to get girls

    I love this little poem. Speak of love and of forever, vow that you will never leave her! I would change this to Speak of love that lasts forever , ...

    Jul 24, 2011
  • Lyric Poetry Re: Love and things like it:)

    But you no longer think of the way the rose was in my hair, This line is the reason that I think this poem has potential. It is really fantastic. ...

    Jul 24, 2011
  • Narrative Poetry Re: The Ghost Above us.

    I too am having a problem with the tenses going on in this phrase I’ve seen the rise of the pyramids built, and every flower wilt. I’ve saw David capture ...

    Jul 24, 2011
  • Narrative Poetry Re: The Last and The First

    I like the story, and even how you told it: the final moments before his death, and then rewind to the beginning of his life to show how he got ...

    Jul 24, 2011
  • Narrative Poetry Re: The Princesses

    Okay, here we go. Hello. I love the imagery in this poem and I love the spoiler. I don't need to tell you that your descriptions are breathtaking because you ...

    Jul 23, 2011
  • Lyric Poetry Re: To die a virgin

    One nitpick: I would omit the ellipses at the end of the last line in exchange for a period. I get that you want to contrast it with the first ...

    Jul 23, 2011
  • Narrative Poetry Re: Lost at Sea [repost]

    Hello, I took the liberty of reading the original work and this repost side-by-side. I love what you changed about the poem; this has a nice rhyme to it now. ...

    Jul 23, 2011
  • Lyric Poetry Re: I Ran Away With Ed (We Watched)

    Hello there, I think this is one of the best unpublished rhyming poems I've read. I really love the use of parentheses both took it easy, peaches, quiet is a ...

    Jul 23, 2011
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: The Sadness of Loving

    I love the idea of this poem, that a person only has so much love and when they give it to the man in their life they have nothing left ...

    Jul 23, 2011
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Shaking Youth.

    Hello, I think the youtube link was more than neat; it was necessary. This poem needs to be spoken out loud; on paper it just isn't as relevant. This is ...

    Jul 23, 2011
  • Romantic Short Stories Re: Big City Girl prologue

    Hello, just so you know this is one of the first stories I've read (technically it's the third) but it takes a lot of willpower for me to read something ...

    Jul 23, 2011
  • Other Poetry Re: Harry Potter has changed my life.

    This is a cute little poem that serves its purpose: to express your feelings about Harry Potter in a flurry of rhyming couplets. I think the problem I have with ...

    Jul 23, 2011


Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.
— Billy Collins