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  • Poetry » General, General Re: august burnout/ blocked september

    This is an amazing poem. First of all, your writing and use of imagery is so evocative. I love the way you use metaphors from math and physics . I ...

    Sep 21, 2021
  • Poetry » Lyrical, Realistic Re: I Lost You

    I love this poem. I love the strong opening line “What happened to forever?” It perfectly sets up the mood of the rest of the poem: hurt, nostalgic, and a ...

    Sep 11, 2021
  • Poetry » General, General Re: [Those three in the backdrop of the cafe scene --]

    As an avowed tea lover ( who often drinks twenty cups a day!) I absolutely loved this poem. I agree, tea with friends is something really special, a respite, a ...

    Sep 9, 2021
  • Poetry » Dramatic, Realistic Re: it's not spring // why are you obsessed with new beginnings

    This is an interesting poem. It’s very well written. From the beginning I like the way you take natural phenomena and give them a twist, a second meaning. “ I ...

    Sep 4, 2021
  • Poetry » Humor, Lyrical Re: Road Trip

    I like this poem. It reminds very much of the light lyrics by Ogden Nash. It has the same elegance and light touch. I like the way you made it ...

    Sep 4, 2021
  • Poetry » Narrative, General Re: liminal space

    I really like this poem. First of all, the form is perfect for the content. I love the way you really highlighted this person’s feelings of being trapped, suffocated by ...

    Sep 4, 2021
  • Poetry » Literature, Dramatic Re: Identity

    I love this poem. I really like the understatement of the first line: “I am but a collection of each little thing I’ve experienced”. The contrast is really interesting then ...

    Sep 1, 2021
  • Poetry » Dramatic, General Re: A genius's encyclopaedic answer sheet

    Interesting poem. The first thing that caught my eye was the form you put it in. I thought yet answer and question form made it into an interesting dialogue. Now, ...

    Aug 30, 2021
  • Poetry » General, General Re: [Imaginary data]

    What a great satire of scientific and school jargon! I really liked the nonsense feel of this poem, it contrasted perfectly with the correctness and objective feel of the format. ...

    Aug 27, 2021
  • Poetry » Lyrical, Narrative Re: Miss You

    I loved this poem the moment I read it. You have really captured so many emotions here. There is pain of rejection, nostalgia, even a little underlying reproach and bitterness( ...

    Aug 26, 2021
  • Poetry » General, General Re: summer of storms

    This is such a beautiful poem. The reader gets such a physical feeling reading this, it is an extremely atmospheric poem. Great poetry makes the ordinary extraordinary, but you have ...

    Aug 24, 2021
  • Poetry » Culture, Lyrical Re: A Visitor From Far Away Lands

    I think this is a really interesting poem. I really liked the ambiguity of the beginning - ambiguity is what masked poetry poetry after all - if we wanted everything ...

    Aug 23, 2021
  • Poetry » Romantic, General Re: Tiny bits of you

    First of all I would like to say that I just loved this poem. I think the emotions expressed here are ones anyone who has ever cared for somebody can ...

    Aug 21, 2021


Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.
— Billy Collins