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  • Poetry » General, General Re: Turtle

    i loved the whole nagging mysterious vibe from this poem, and the imagery it gives without using words that were too specific. maybe it's my bias towards turtles, but i ...

    Oct 29, 2020
  • Poetry » Literature, Lyrical Re: 128 days

    i like the feeling of helpless frustration about being torn between missing someone and letting them go at the same time so much! the only place that i think the ...

    Oct 16, 2020
  • Poetry » Literature, Other Re: Romanian Fairy Tale

    i'm a sucker for folklore and fairy tales and i cannot express how excited i was to find a poem about it. i loved the overall rhythm of the poem, ...

    Oct 9, 2020
  • Poetry » Realistic, General Re: the drawback of grief

    i'm sorry for your loss, and i couldn't scroll past this without leaving a review since it hits so close to home, having lost my own grandfather only a few ...

    Oct 9, 2020
  • Poetry » General, General Re: Hallucinations

    this was short, but wow, i could feel the vague uneasiness of the whole poem, and it the way it concluded "you're killing yourself by overdosing on your meds" was ...

    Oct 6, 2020
  • Poetry » General, Romantic Re: Departing/Returning

    ooh, i really love the way this was structured with half of it to one side and the other one on the opposite. i don't have a very lot of ...

    Oct 5, 2020


The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not just a diarist. So I put myself through a kind of apprenticeship in writing poetry, and I understood even then that my practice as a poet was deeply related to my reading.
— Edward Hirsch