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  • Archive Re: Finding Light

    Name: Kaen Parsh Nickname/Likes to be Called: Kaen, no nickname Age: 12 Sex: male Looks: Kaen's hair is a dark, dark brown, almost but not quite black. It's short-cropped and ...

    Oct 29, 2011
  • Archive Re: City of Broken -- Started

    Dropping out, sorry

    Oct 27, 2011
  • Other Poetry Re: Headlights

    This is really good. I love the concept and the imagery. I liked your use of similes, too. But I think that the flow could have been better. It was ...

    Oct 21, 2011
  • Other Poetry Re: Wishes and Fishes

    I love it :)

    Oct 15, 2011
  • Lyric Poetry Re: Enigma

    You think I don't see how you cling to shadow, like my skin to me and flowers to meadow. A puzzle, you are, with pieces missing. Your words are far, ...

    Oct 15, 2011
  • Other Poetry Re: If...

    Nice job. I've battled with depression, still am, and this really captures the feeling well. I liked your sort of...random rhyme scheme, with some of the rhymes in the lines. ...

    Oct 15, 2011
  • Other Poetry Re: Haikus

    I loved all of these. Definitely great for a first attempt. You should have seen mine. They were laughable. But, then again, I was in seventh grade. Anyway, my favorite ...

    Oct 14, 2011
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Save me

    I thought this was great. Your use of puncuation...well... punctuated the meaning of the words, if you know what I mean. I know you probably don't want to hear this ...

    Oct 14, 2011
  • Other Poetry Re: Milk and Honey

    I like this. I thought it was nice, in a cutesy Hallmark-ish way. But it was a bit redundant at times. You say "just like" a lot, so I suggest ...

    Oct 14, 2011
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Celestian.

    First, I'd like to say that I love the title. It really drew me in, I think because it sounds so fantastical. Second, I'd like to say that you really ...

    Oct 14, 2011
  • Lyric Poetry Re: Gleaning

    You comb your fingers through charred remains of what once was your flawless life. Small gems glitter amongst the rubble, a little bit of shine in the dull. You ravage ...

    Oct 13, 2011
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: The Question Mark

    My face is a metaphor for all which I believe, unorthadox, in an uproar, like something's up my sleeve. I am a question mark, lightning in the overcast, my difference ...

    Oct 11, 2011
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Becoming Waves

    Shimmering waters of turquoise tranquility are suddenly broken by pasty white skin and mousy brown hair. I'm encompassed, devoured by the cool, sinking in cheer, finally home. There is no ...

    Oct 10, 2011
  • Lyric Poetry Re: Freedom

    Freedom. The word dances like fire across your tongue, the azure of the sky on a torrid August day, the gentle lapping water of an Adirondack lake. Red and white ...

    Oct 10, 2011
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Violet Carousel

    1. Born a rose in a fallow garden, raised a weed, pestilence in the flower beds. They gave you away, an unwanted gift, into the open arms of one more ...

    Oct 10, 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