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  • Poetry » Romantic, Realistic Re: Failing at being loved

    hey juulman! welcome back to yws! you've done a great job at encapsulating that feeling of watching others fall in love, while you yourself are, to say, "falling behind!" i ...

    Jul 24
  • Poetry » General, General Re: Shadowed Mirror

    hey catz! with a lot of poems, it can be hard to cement a good metaphor/comparison for relationships with that of the patriarchy and femininity, but i think you're really ...

    Jul 24
  • Poetry » Science Fiction, Lyrical Re: Tesseract

    hey @user2753994356! welcome to yws, i'm herb, and i'll be reviewing your poem today! with the title, i can definitely see the "tesseract-cality" of this poem-- time being fluid as ...

    May 21
  • Poetry » Dramatic, Realistic Re: something and therefore nothing

    hi ant! let's unpack this banger of a poem there's a lot of imagery relating to snow, ice, cold things etc. it's really interesting to see that, especially with the ...

    Feb 19, 2025
  • Poetry » Romantic, Dramatic Re: soft spoken

    hi fig! please excuse any typos during this review, i ak using my phone rn,,, the death of something. you are spectating, surrounding someone, and yet they are no longer ...

    Feb 1, 2025
  • Poetry » General, General Re: death that waits is a woman

    hi chi i'm reviewing this, sigh. excuse any typos i am on mobile writing this,,, anothet jade poem! i see you have been thinking about her, interesting. in the past, ...

    Feb 1, 2025
  • Poetry » Dramatic, Realistic Re: you've haunted me all my life

    hi diss (hello, chi) time to review this poem, sigh. wow immediate jade mention! i wonder who this poem is about. anyway, her being your light-- the memory lingering. interesting. ...

    Jan 20, 2025
  • Poetry » Lyrical, Politics Re: Lullaby for the Gemini

    hello, hildegardhope. i've come to review this poem. i haven't brushed up on my greek mythology recently, but this is definitely deeply greek-rooted. boyhood to manhood, hm. that is ever-present ...

    Jan 17, 2025
  • Poetry » Realistic, Dramatic Re: Tired

    hello iliketrains666, i'm here to review your poem. it's definitely saying something-- through exauhstion and inability to do something, but i'm not sure what you're trying to say here-- sure, ...

    Jan 17, 2025
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: young and helpless

    hi lullaby . herb here, to review your poem. immediate notice of pity/loss - pathetic, pay me any attention, drained, notice, margins, fool. you set us (readers) up for a ...

    Jan 6, 2025
  • Short Story » Realistic, General Re: Banana Bread

    hi @angstyteen. i'm herb, here to review this short story. it's clear that there's the sense of absence, this slow, grieving mourning of our speaker's mother. perhaps it is yours, ...

    Jan 6, 2025
  • Poetry » Romantic, General Re: Clay

    hi ash! herb here to review your poem. on first glance, this is a piece about love/falling out of love, and you make it akin to clay-- which i found ...

    Jan 6, 2025
  • Poetry » Romantic, General Re: Jacket

    Hi logan! Herb here to review your wonderful piece of poetry~! Let's begin. You keep it sweet and short, and i enjoy that. I think it's very interestingly formatted. it's ...

    Dec 29, 2024
  • Poetry » Dramatic, Lyrical Re: satiety

    hello soundo mynd! time to review this last poem in your sisyphean(?) collection, satiety. THAT TITLE THOUGH? stunned from the beginning! let's start :P okay. you start out with the ...

    Dec 8, 2024
  • Lyrics » Lyrical, General Re: Mocha Tea

    hello taost! i'm herb, here to review your wonderful lyrics :) there's this sense of disappearance, the fleeting-ness of cafe dates, and flowers, is something i find interesting! i almost ...

    Dec 8, 2024


The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?
— Gilles Deleuze