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timjim77

  • Lyric Poetry Re: Colorful Cubes, Delicate Glasses, and French Perfume

    Your rhymes are forced. (See: ...I wish to abhor/....walk out the door) The title promised more than the poem gave. Your meter is actually not so bad, but you get ...

    Nov 17, 2008
  • Other Poetry Re: Of Cheap Flesh and Produce

    This is Just To Say: Quite clever, well-done in the form. The lining is good, punctuation is fine, doesn't distract. "But I didn't love you" IS the poem, do nothing ...

    Nov 17, 2008
  • Other Poetry Re: To Swallow a Swallow

    The image is whimsical and much to my taste. I think this poem could be improved by giving a bit more attention to meter. This poem has no set meter, ...

    Nov 17, 2008
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: One cannot mute the imagined sound

    One cannot mute the imagined sound that like a homeless echo settles in where it is most unwelcome. The caterwaul of new abandonment shrieks its chalky name at a dusty, ...

    Aug 22, 2008
  • Lyric Poetry Re: Hypocrite

    thier: their

    Aug 16, 2008
  • Narrative Poetry Re: you kill me

    Certainly the format is eye-catching. Almost echoes a fall. nice. "tears start to fall from you like me from the sky" This doesn't quite work. The image is awkward in ...

    Aug 16, 2008
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Enough

    swines: swine's glutens: gluttons There is an interesting thought here. A bit underdeveloped and uneven. You have chosen a setting for this poem, but it doesn't seem to have truly ...

    Aug 16, 2008
  • Lyric Poetry Re: Rain and all her nervous face

    Rain and all her nervous face displays as she delivers tides of good news on the xeric roof is chilling in its honesty. Shoats and farrow scamper in on a ...

    Aug 16, 2008
  • Lyric Poetry Re: My puddle

    - Don't use 'larger than life' to describe the perspective of life. Right? - 'Slightest disruption': instead, give us an image of that slight disruption. - 'into my vision': Vision ...

    Jun 17, 2008
  • Other Poetry Re: don't open, deleted*

    Ok: "War, Fare." No, Way. The separation of those words doesn't make sense. Or any of the others. - Yes, blood and war go hand in hand. As do cliches ...

    Jun 17, 2008
  • Other Poetry Re: Synesthesia

    I liked the chorus-like nature of the 'This is' sections. The commas-question mark combination leaves a lot to be desired. Are you asking a question, or asking a question an ...

    Jun 17, 2008
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Hive Mind, Own Will

    Ok, so we start out with Ludacris, and end with a confession. I'm confused. -First, spell check. Despicable, not dispicibal. And, not nd. - Wait/weight works on (0) levels. Sometimes ...

    Jun 5, 2008
  • Lyric Poetry Re: Word Travels

    I found this poem quite interesting. - Fantastic imagery. - The voice and tone of the poem sounded weary. I'm not sure this is what was intended, and you may ...

    Jun 5, 2008
  • Narrative Poetry Re: Indians in the rain?

    - "There" should be their - BOOM! doesn't need to look like that. - "You can hear the click, click, click of that dead engine, A damp body dances through ...

    Jun 5, 2008
  • Poetry Discussion Re: Structure?

    Set rhythm? What does that even mean? Yes, poetry needs rhythm. It needs to beat on the heart like a drum. That doesn't mean it needs to be seven syllables ...

    Jun 5, 2008


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