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  • Dramatic Poetry Re: New Eyes.

    Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I'll try to edit it today. I slept on it before and now I think I'm prepared to make the right adjustments.

    Sep 28, 2011
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: New Eyes.

    I know of the sun, of the light that pours over your tongue, as you talk, talk, of it. I am a weight upon this image; a shadow. I spread ...

    Sep 28, 2011
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: B*******

    The first stanza was definitely the best. You captured the emotion wonderfully, perhaps because it was so raw, and a more nerve twanging subject. I love this: Even her scent ...

    Sep 28, 2011
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: I cut myself

    You are very brave to talk about an experience like this, and for that I hail you. It's lovely to see people making use of a bad situation and turning ...

    Sep 28, 2011
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Burnt.

    Thank you all for your comments! Yes, I do seem to forget that I am writing for an audience, and they aren't going to know what exactly I mean unless ...

    Sep 27, 2011
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Oh River

    I don't think you were harsh at all, I do think it is a little imature, especially for a poem dealing with something so defining. I will certainly take note ...

    Sep 27, 2011
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Mother

    Thank you very much, I'm glad you both like it :) Even the most awful things manage their own beauty sometimes, you enjoying it, I would say, is an example ...

    Sep 27, 2011
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: La Petite Mort

    Thanks I'm glad you both like it :)

    Sep 27, 2011
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Burnt.

    They say I killed him, the horned ones; murdered Moloch. Slew the monster , that’s what they say. Voices scraping across my skin, like gravel, through cell bars. Took him ...

    Sep 27, 2011
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Saxophones in Fall

    The imagery is beautiful. I agree with everyone else, the yolk moon is f'ing gorgeous. I'm so jealous I didn't come up with that. I also love that you 'cup ...

    Sep 27, 2011
  • Lyric Poetry Re: Legion

    This reminds me so much of Paradise Lost, really beautiful language. I often feel this way about humans, if that is what you're addressing here, if not I'm completely off, ...

    Sep 27, 2011
  • Historical Fiction Novels Re: Softness of Doves

    This is absolutely wonderful! I loathe the men who hit her, ugh, bastards. Very impressed by the detail, especially like the 'tangy blood', that was lovely. You write so well ...

    Sep 27, 2011
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Oh River

    You're certainly right! I need to change it to: 'too dark to bare' Glad that you like it :)

    Sep 27, 2011
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Oh River

    Back, back, back against the wall, wall, wall. Clawing at the river, I ached for it all. For the grey filth to swallow me, not the other way around. For ...

    Sep 27, 2011
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Hummingbird

    I enjoy the detail that you go into, and the comparison between the bird and gems is wonderful, more so because it is an oxymoron, such a thing is impossible, ...

    Sep 27, 2011


Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
— William S. Burroughs