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Moonshine

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Big, Bright, Beautiful

against the

dark twilight sky

lightly dotted with stars

their radiance

shared with the world

Big, Bright, Beautiful 

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Firepower13
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Firepower takes a couple quick glances around, then creeps over and drops an envelope before driving hastily away. The envelope contains a letter which reads:

The sky and solar system is so big and beautiful that it can be a great topic for a poem, but you sort of missed the mark by making this so short. You could also have some prettier, more sweeping descriptions.

You also capitalize the first and last three words, but no other words, which seems rather out of place.

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KatGirl
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KatGirl wrote a review · Sun Nov 30, 2014 7:42 am

I felt like this was way too small. This could've been open to so much more since the sky is such a wide horizon. Sorry for the pun. xD
When you start out with this poem, why do you put the first three letters of the first line capitalized, and the same with the end? Is this supposed to be some sort of poem style? Repeating it twice didn't really do much for the poem.

Since it is called 'Moonshine' what line is exactly talking/explaining the moon? Yes, I can picture the sky how it always is, a dark sky with stars. But perhaps, to be more vivid, couldn't you go in more depth? For example:
'The skies of midnight like a pillow circling Earth', or something like this:
'The skies are the horizons that never end, the places all of us dream about'

I have to admit, this was quite dull. I think this should've had more details in it, at least something like this: 'the vivid stars against the canvas of black'

This poem is open to improvement.

This is a very short poem for a very large "subject" the night sky has a lot of potential yet your wording and structure is still very strong and the entire poem flowed well in its entirety.
I think that a few more lines would improve the piece overall but that's really just on opinion.
None the less great job and keep at it :)
Stay awesome (I'm sure you already are!)
-Carmenbluestar :)

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valdez
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valdez wrote a review · Sat Nov 29, 2014 8:41 pm

This poem had a good idea behind it that couldve gone a long way but i feel that it was to short and I didnt really get the picture of the night sky you were describing into my head However I did like the way you used big bright beautiful at both the start and end but as I said before it was to short so I didnt really feel like I could get engaged into the poem (and maybe add some personification that will always help) but besides that it was a good start since you only joined yesterday. good bye and happy writing

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JinxGrey
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I like this piece.Even though its quite small,I it is full of vivid wording.I like the flow of it.I found it easy to understand.I found it to easy to follow.I could see a bright moon against a canvas of a stars and the silky night sky.I found this piece to be interesting.You did a stupendous job.Good luck!!!



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