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  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Candescent

    Nothing is better than wasting my days on you Knowing that some part of me will fade as you become clearer does not sting so much I'm aware that you ...

    Feb 7, 2006
  • Other Poetry Re: Maze

    i agree with timjim, though this was relatively good. i love that you've adopted your own style, though, instead of others. i'm sorry for not having much to say :)

    Feb 7, 2006
  • Other Poetry Re: Mellow Tragic

    i agree with blackdaisy. the second stanza was lacking the same feeling as the rest of the poem, which can be a good thing or a bad thing, but as ...

    Feb 7, 2006
  • Other Poetry Re: Fly Me to Polaris

    this was beautiful. the imagery - the description - wonderful. i liked: But light can’t be solid. Even the brightest star fades away, As that twinkle effervesces from the gentle ...

    Feb 7, 2006
  • Other Poetry Re: Wailing Wall

    (pre-apology for horrible critique) i loved this. this was amazing. i think you should fix the line breaks of the last stanza. this is my suggestion: but even then, in ...

    Feb 6, 2006
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Sixteen Years Gone By

    this was very cute and touching. i loved the feeling, because it certainly conveys what each and every teenage girl feels at the bitter disappointment. very cold and sort of....just ...

    Feb 6, 2006
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Vision

    alright, i think you need to tie all these beautiful but slightly incoherent images together more. i had to read it a couple of time to get it, but then ...

    Feb 6, 2006
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Valentine's Day

    The ghost I am afraid of is the kind that unearths dark treasures with forgotten maps. i didn't like this line for some reason. otherwise, i found the entire thing, ...

    Feb 6, 2006
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Echoes

    i loved the vocabulary, but the ending did not match the beauitful imagery of the poem. allow me to be informal and say that it demanded a bit more "ZAP" ...

    Feb 6, 2006
  • Lyric Poetry Re: Tenement of clay

    this was beautiful. i loved your imagery and word-choice, but i must voice a singular critique - your line breaks sometimes confuse me, make me unsure of the start and ...

    Feb 5, 2006
  • Other Poetry Re: Writer's Block

    this was flowly and sort of musical sounding, but i didn't favor the repitition of "tonight" as the last word in the first two stanzas. it was too redundant and, ...

    Feb 5, 2006
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: The Hand

    this was cute and held meaning, rhythm and rhyme properly. it even conveyed image. i must say, though... a hand reached out, with not hate, but love after all the ...

    Feb 5, 2006
  • Other Poetry Re: Choking on Steel Tires

    A faceless mass All embrossed and branded With the emblem of your king And the beat; the rhythm Smacks and whacks its way around town From the girl with her ...

    Feb 4, 2006
  • Other Poetry Re: Postage Stamp

    aww this was so cute. and very true - in fact, you just put the biggest smile on my face. i don't like the hyphen between "no" and "one", though ...

    Feb 4, 2006
  • Other Poetry Re: No One

    yeah, ok, this needs flesh for me to bite into. right now it's a very short, sweet cracker that is more like a poetic statement with line breaks than a ...

    Feb 4, 2006


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