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  • Poetry » Narrative, General Re: The Travelin' Cowboy

    I saw the infamous Naked Cowboy in Times Square today. That was odd. anyway The rhyme scheme is sonnet style but the meter is really, really off, and meter is ...

    Apr 4, 2010
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: *has no title

    I didn't like how those two lines were isolated and spaced out like that. I also had a problem with some of the enjambment, usually you should never end a ...

    Apr 4, 2010
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: the fairy queen

    I just saw a masque called The Fairy Queen... a semi-opera. It was four hours long... it was 1/3 shakespeare, 1/3 opera, and 1/3 LSD Festival. Although I don't know ...

    Apr 4, 2010
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: The Vessel of my Mind

    I'd work on your word choice. In fact, I think that your best ally when considering this piece for revising is condensation. You've got plenty of imagery and even 'the ...

    Apr 3, 2010
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: It Has To Be....

    i think this poem is kind of annoying because... basically what you are saying is that you are too good to pay attention to other poetry. If you want to ...

    Apr 3, 2010
  • Poetry » Narrative, General Re: Write and Sleep

    I actually wrote a poem about not knowing what to write... similar to this one... and that was my first piece that ever got published so you never know what ...

    Apr 3, 2010
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Metropolitan Man and The Sewer Rat [Full title too long]

    I'm not a fan of graphic novels, not one bit, but honestly this seems like it would really make me laugh if I were to pick it up... you know ...

    Apr 3, 2010
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: For Kamas

    Hypo, I like it a lot. Factories should be Factory's. Also, I really didn't like "darklight." the penultimate stanza was really weak I thought, but the stanza above it was ...

    Apr 3, 2010
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Consequences

    don't use the word "whence." Its like your trying to be archaic but... that's dumb. someone said that it flows well but that is wrong. the first stanza seems to ...

    Apr 3, 2010
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: The Wolf

    too much unnecessary punctuation at the end of lines. You really don't need commas at the end of lines. I'd rearrange the flow, some lines are too long and wordy, ...

    Apr 3, 2010
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: Black Sheep

    cliche and forgettable. I'll give you the same advice I've given many others: read read read read. You can't write something novel and interesting unless you know what's out there. ...

    Apr 3, 2010
  • Poetry » Narrative, General Re: The Little If In Space

    this would have been good except the rhyming is so tedious. Forced rhyme is rampant here. other then that you've got the jist of it, lots of words and things. ...

    Apr 3, 2010
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Thou Dost Not Compute

    its an okay poem. The rhythm is really off in some places, I think your piece would benefit from condensation, i don't think I can say that enough. The first ...

    Apr 2, 2010
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Russian Roulette

    its like reverse russian roulette. Like, the version you play when you are by yourself. I'd take out the things that are cliche, the things like "a single tear rolls ...

    Apr 2, 2010
  • Poetry » Narrative, General Re: Harbinger of Haunting Hour

    A lot of strong words right off the bat. I like that. However, it really starts to break down in the second stanza. The lines are choppy and they don't ...

    Apr 2, 2010


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