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  • Poetry » Dramatic, Realistic Re: Forgotten Good-Bye

    This is really pretty. The italics get a sort of eerie mood across that I love. The words are so descriptive, your reader instantly underestands what is happening. A lover ...

    Nov 13, 2014
  • Poetry » General, General Re: Snake

    This is a really interesting poem to read. The honeyed half-truths was a great line. I enjoyed the imagery quite a bit and the sounds. When I think of snakes, ...

    Nov 13, 2014
  • Poetry » Literature, Romantic Re: Second Chances

    I like this quite a bit. It has the potential for a very nice piece. The description of a second chance was well thought out in the poem and I ...

    Nov 12, 2014
  • Poetry » Fantasy, General Re: Flower Crown

    This is sorta breathtaking. Honestly. I'm writing this review in a cold, dark theater at a rehearsal and yet I feel the heat from the sun and see the bright ...

    Nov 11, 2014
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: And So On

    This is pretty. Really very pretty. It reminds me much of Fitzgerald. I admire your success in writing one word lines that work well. I find that immensely difficult. Your ...

    Nov 11, 2014
  • Poetry » General, Narrative Re: Pointless Life of Me

    Oooh this was chilly. I can relate all too much to this at times. I think it is very well written. I love your opening. "Those words are my truth./ ...

    Nov 11, 2014
  • Poetry » Humor, General Re: A Poem About An Essay About Myself

    This was really interesting to read. It was so... all over the place. In a good way. You get yourself across pretty well in forty ish lines. I loved the ...

    Nov 11, 2014
  • Poetry » Dramatic, Realistic Re: Free Fall

    I like this. I really do, and I can relate. I am pretty sure the final two stanzas have gone through my head before when trying to cope with immense ...

    Nov 10, 2014
  • Poetry » Dramatic, Health Re: Sweet Addiction

    Wow, that was wonderful. Reading this coincided with a melancholy piano song I was listening to, and the mix was bone chilling. I had to go make myself some tea. ...

    Nov 9, 2014
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Semi-sweet Dreams

    This a stange and wonderful piece! It is slightly confusing and would probably be better separated into stanzas. My favorite part would have to be the part where you describe ...

    Oct 26, 2014
  • Poetry » Realistic, General Re: Hours to madness

    That was Halloween appropiate for the bone-chilling factor. It was a good read and I like the overall tone and subject, but a lot of it is unclear. It appears ...

    Oct 26, 2014
  • Poetry » Dramatic, Realistic Re: A Lark's Cry

    Oooooh. Shivers. This is stunning. AAAA rhyming patterns always seem almost childish, but you do it so well that it has the opposite result. As for the rhythm, however, I ...

    Oct 26, 2014
  • Poetry » Dramatic, Romantic Re: Love Lost Life Regained

    This reminds me much of Lewis Carroll's writing in The Jabberwocky. Less about the sense it makes but about the feeling the sounds provide. "Swarthy, swaggering son of a gun" ...

    Oct 26, 2014
  • Poetry » Health, Realistic Re: Broken into Blades

    I loved the rhyming within the same lines, the first being my favorite. Writing about emotion and having rhymes in it is hard to do without sounding alomst immature, but ...

    Oct 24, 2014
  • Poetry » Historical Fiction, General Re: The Letter

    You've amazed me. The turn at the end was what made me tear up. The beat and rhymes are balanced, which is so hard to do. There are no parts ...

    Oct 24, 2014


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— Immanuel Kant, Philosopher