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  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Crust

    I am compost. I am a bag of waste, I am a mistake of ligaments and scars and I am the empty, flashing remains since the creation of electrons, I ...

    Aug 6, 2009
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Whoever taught you how to dance?

    The first stanza felt strong, like a critisizing instructor of some sort, but after that... "as it digs ever-deeper into your chest. Are you afraid of the first step?" I ...

    Aug 6, 2009
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: To be used or be to useless?

    I met midnight knowing I'd been used, but you had the decency to let me sit until morning, wallowing in the sweat of my insecurity, so at dawn I reeked ...

    Jul 22, 2009
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Following the Three Wise Men

    I love how you integrated the modern with a biblical tale - that allusion makes it all the more universally powerful. However, the first stanza does not rhyme, while the ...

    Apr 10, 2009
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Writing treats me badly

    I love how you use "yeah" and "thee" in the same line. It shows such an intense contrast, like a mix of old school courting and new school parties. In ...

    Apr 10, 2009
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: irony

    I think you should change the word "mean" in the first paragraph to in, the words have already been spoken. More so, such a riddling tone is offset by the ...

    Apr 10, 2009
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Throat Muscles

    The subject came up about rehab, whilst I swallowed sour pills long fermenting in your sidestreet pockets, And you said "If only I was there, to change the way it ...

    Apr 10, 2009
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Revision to a sappy poem

    I like it much, much better. Except for chipped toenails. The image makes me cringe. I'm amazed how you transformed a poem that was moderate (okay, maybe not so good ...

    Apr 7, 2009
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Warning: Sappy, may cause loss of apetite or vomitting

    Darling, what are you trying to say? Your writing is the character in this poem, clutching and clawing to embody the meaning behind the words, but far too desperately! The ...

    Apr 5, 2009
  • Lyric Poetry Re: Jesus Fermented on Saturday

    wine glass on the kitchen table, ninety percent empty. pills - three white, one crushed, the rest taken. and in the dismal solitude of her house, she weeps - one ...

    Feb 19, 2008
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: At least call me, mon amour

    I wrote about two years ago.. I don't know how it came up, honestly! So I'm not going to edit it, but I agree the word "baby" is out of ...

    Feb 4, 2008
  • Lyric Poetry Re: Pigeons Spit on Doves

    (I doubt I will ever write a poem for someone again. It's a sad attempt.) our heartstrings may be as lithe as the branches crowning dew-drenched trees - but where ...

    Dec 31, 2007
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: The Dying Tree: Lovers Regrowing

    Nothing can compare to nature, (semicolon maybe?) we retread this adventure, when no art and no poetry, can account for the beauty around me. I completely agree. I love these ...

    Dec 28, 2007
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: A Brief History of the Ex-Dee #1

    This is largely confusing, so allow me to ramble on about certain meanings I can identify here. I'd appreciate if you expressed your meaning in response - I'm curious to ...

    Dec 28, 2007
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Like Buffalo drawn on Post-it Notes

    I find that my life has been lost – all I recorded on sad scraps of hotel paper has found its home under Oxford-clad feet: between the rich and the ...

    Dec 28, 2007


They who talk all day of beauty call all the plain things dirty
— John Darnielle