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  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: The Blueprint

    Suggestion -- and I [s]your bleeding October girl[/s], the blueprint to your doomsday master plan. It breaks the three line set up, but you don't really need reminding in a ...

    Jul 27, 2007
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: The Lake

    I would redo the linebreaks here. These are my suggestions: The wavelets of the lake pat against your ankles,[s] like [/s]a wagging , soggy dog ready to shake and ecstatic ...

    Jul 25, 2007
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: Cigars

    to the signs of "leave." This latter part of the image isn't nearly as beautiful as the rest of it. It's nice, but it pales in comparison. "signs of leave"? ...

    Jul 20, 2007
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: Paperweight

    And my skin is scrawled with sooty black ink And sooty black ink runs through my veins. Lots of "and"s to start off lines makes it seems sort of like ...

    Jul 19, 2007
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: And When God is in Your Fingerprints

    Line by line thoughts: You’re hiding in my finger-folds. I see this more as the representative of the spaces between one's fingers. Either a lover or a partner or a ...

    Jul 6, 2007
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: Dreams of Suicide

    :) Amusing, and I liked how it showed the tie in to the backward haunting thoughts of your mind. I wish there weren't so many capitals, but the format make ...

    Jul 6, 2007
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: cradling into death

    shhhh... This seems so informal compared to the rest of the poem. I'd suggest something along the lines of "shush" or just "shh" (two h's) if you want to keep ...

    May 26, 2007
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: First and Last, Beginning and End

    I love your poetry, Cameron, but the beginning of your work is always vague and somewhat whimsical, like this is an unplanned tangent. It isn't, of course, and comes together ...

    May 24, 2007
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Amnesty International

    I loved the use of style here, how the reader is so immersed in the pure atmosphere, which is entirely realistic, that they do not release the emotions they are ...

    May 24, 2007
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Thinking of Things Unsaid

    To make any poem worthwhile, the less extra words, the better. To make a short poem worthwhile, what is said in the short amount of space must have gravity far ...

    May 24, 2007
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: E'in Sof

    The beginning dragged me in. It was interesting, full of images, beautifully tying into each other. And then this system was just repeated and dragged out through the rest of ...

    May 22, 2007
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Passport photo

    I applied for a new passport today. Took my photo at the booth. Snap. Poker face. This abrupt beginning, which suits the feeling of "snap. poker face" continues throughout the ...

    May 15, 2007
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: (Not) My Music

    This is beautiful and fluent, it flows off the tongue. You've created poetry of the recitation of imagery, which is an artform of itself. It'd like to see more of ...

    May 7, 2007
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: To Pass From Your Lips

    I didn't believe my parents when they told me about monsters not existing under the bed That may very well be a double negative, or I may just be wrong. ...

    May 1, 2007
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Hush

    Wonderful. And I'd like to commemorate you on your use of sentence structure to add dramatics. For example: Night >> sinking (simile) august >> looms (simile) guilt >> definite prophecies ...

    Apr 28, 2007


“If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.”
— Lao Tzu