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  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: The Homecoming

    I think the ending could be better, but I did thoroughally enjoy it. you whispered, as our sailboat came to earth , sails flapping wildly as the hull scraped the ...

    Aug 14, 2006
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: marbles

    in uneven ways"--lightning struck ahead-- "lightening struck ahead" is too many syllables to have any effect. You hide a lot in you images, and I hope you realize this and ...

    Aug 13, 2006
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: She lies in her eyes

    Is it true what they say about love? This is vague. A lot of things are said about love. Refuses to breathe An awkward short line that I think you ...

    Aug 13, 2006
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: I won.

    getting up Just for the sake of mixing up words, I'd put "out" instead of "up". I liked the rhyme, loved the poem, and only suggest that you go through ...

    Aug 12, 2006
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Soma

    for we are only ever as dark as the last day we remember this is just a pretty dream that always ends too soon. There's a lot of extra words ...

    Aug 12, 2006
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Some of my poems from this month and last... help needed to

    Break my psychadelic waves of nausea, bringing me back to the surface, spluttering and coughing up so many multi-coloured dreams. This comes off as something one would write on a ...

    Aug 12, 2006
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Pen Envy (redone from TYWC days)

    Hm. Haven't seen you in a while - I didn't know you wrote poetry. And exceedingly well. :D A bit exhausting on the "I want"s - could you have not ...

    Aug 12, 2006
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: Alone and falling

    You don't have to color the text, it's all right. Or put astriek's in between your stanzas, but all that's just preference. All of my Thoughts, and my Hopes, My ...

    Aug 4, 2006
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: Empty Notebooks are a Therapy Session

    snort a fat rhyme I dont know if this was the best thing to put in the first line. It was a bit of a turn off, "fat" being such ...

    Aug 4, 2006
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: untranslatable

    (I only touch the shore because all seas must have an end somewhere[s] so this is mine[/s]) I enjoyed this. You're a good poet, bubblewrapped, and I wish we had ...

    Aug 4, 2006
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: Ode to Someone's Mother

    caught in the undertow of a thought carried away on the broken back of an undisciplined rhythm passing through subatomic slipstreams and defective dream catchers laughing waves of an alien ...

    Aug 1, 2006
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: thoughts through scissor blades

    Snoink's right. Weak ending, undeserving of such a good poem. Let me try to understand There’s this feeling in my hand It is a blade sinking deeper in my skin? ...

    Aug 1, 2006
  • Poetry » Narrative, General Re: Deep, enchanting, nothing much really

    ...This isn't narrative.... Anyway.. The rhyme is a bit forced, the third stanza's lines are too long so they're off rhythm. Then you discard both rhyme and rhythm for the ...

    Jul 31, 2006
  • Poetry » Other, General Re: Upon that Meadow

    Cannot...highlight...cannot...edit. *sobs* The second line is useless. Um. I would love you if this was typed. I really think it needs some revision I could help with, but oetherwise it ...

    Jul 31, 2006
  • Poetry » Lyrical, General Re: Invisible

    I am going to say how many syllables each line needs. Invisible, I disappear into my mental gloom. 0 Unseen, I creep into the sweet haven of my room. 0 ...

    Jul 31, 2006


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