February 2014 Poetry Exchange

Here are my four:

Dynamic
http://www.youngwriterssociety.com/work.php?id=108604

Cats With Questioning Tales
http://www.youngwriterssociety.com/work.php?id=99676

She was more interested in me than she was in boys.
http://www.youngwriterssociety.com/work.php?id=106902

Followed by a Red Truck, or Successful Exorcism
http://www.youngwriterssociety.com/work.php?id=108260

Can I reduce myself to two poems? I found 3 a little hard, sorry.

What is it?

Road of Life

Here are my poems!

The Shadow's Work.

Lover's Spit Left on Repeat

Welcome to the February Poetry Exchange!
I'll give you another thing to skim, and then a list to peruse.

Round one!

What To Do/Rules

In this round and the next we will all be reviewing 3 poems by the 21st of next week.

Below is a list with your name in it, and a spoiler bar which has links to the poems you will be reviewing. When you review look for creative ways to improve the poem more than reviewing traditionally.
Go into detail about:
lines you like
lines you don't like
words you think might need changing
other suggested structure changes
words you love
Things the poem makes you think about

Don't produce just your typical review for a poem. Try to go beyond that with specific details that might help improve the specific poem. The biggest thing might be just to tell the author exactly, as in quoting, what lines you loved or what you think works really well.

After you do this segmented line by line review, go ahead and give an overall opinion of the poem.

Reviewing List

@ShadowWings

Spoiler

1. The 'blues' of traveling
2. Road of Life
3. Meanings

@Magpie94

Spoiler

1. First Snow of the Year
2. What is it?
3. "All Beauty Sleeps," and Nothing Human Lasts

@ZLYF

Spoiler

1. Dynamic
2. Retrospect
3. The Shadow's Work.

@megsug

Spoiler

1. The Shadow's Work.
2. My Hero
3. Coal Wrapped Dream

@GreenTulip

Spoiler

1. I Have A Headache
2. Coal Wrapped Dream
3. Road of Life

@fortis

Spoiler

1. Cats With Questioning Tales
2. Today we say goodbye
3. Retrospect

@Aley

Spoiler

1. She was more interested in me than she was in boys.
2. Followed by a Red Truck, or Successful Exorcism
3. Lover's Spit Left On Repeat

Oh by the way Aley, I ended up publishing it on YWS so if you want to get points, @magpie94 here's the link "All Beauty Sleeps," and Nothing Human Lasts

Second week duties? It's 22/2 here

Round two!

Reviewing List

@ShadowWings

Spoiler

1. She was more interested in me than she was in boys.
2. Retrospect
3. "All Beauty Sleeps," and Nothing Human Lasts

@Magpie94

Spoiler

1. I Have A Headache
2. Coal Wrapped Dream
3. Lover's Spit Left On Repeat

@ZLYF

Spoiler

1. Today we say goodbye
2. Cats With Questioning Tales
3. Meanings
Just like this event started a day late on you, it will continue at the pace of my time, not yours so please plan your dates accordingly. Here, it is still 9 on the 21st and I was planning on putting this up at midnight. I appreciate your patience and little extra work in regards to dates and times with this event.

@megsug

Spoiler

1. Dynamic
2. What is it?
3. Lover's Spit Left On Repeat

@GreenTulip

Spoiler

1. Followed by a Red Truck, or Successful Exorcism
2. "All Beauty Sleeps," and Nothing Human Lasts
3. Meanings

@fortis

Spoiler

1. The Shadow's Work.
2. First Snow of the Year
3. What is it?

@Aley

Spoiler

1. Road of Life
2. The 'blues' of traveling
3. My Hero
4. I Have A Headache

Hello Everyone.

Thank you for participating in this February Poetry Exchange. I appreciate all of the quick replies to the second round, and the completion of the first round.

I hope that everyone enjoyed the Poetry Exchange and received good comments on their poems. If you would like to start a poetry exchange of your own, there is a how to for that.

Please feel free to leave any final remarks including suggested readings [poems you really loved] and comments to me about the exchange process in general. I'd love to hear from you all as the last few people finish up their final reviews.