me too, me too, i want an insult poem too... I would grade this poem a 7, but for this one i decided to use your grading scale instead of mine.

You rule.

I love the word "sac".

Yes to the first two questions, no to the third, and ace to the last verse.

Either join the army or a woman. The last two lines suggest the latter, and so do I.

some good lines --- 2nd stanza's first words over-prepositional, maybe marry up a few lines? Love: "with shoulder-shrug cares"; "try to stick them/felt-tipped". Good.

happiness - a concept under-rated never gained by those who over-played it... Nice write! Ever think the 9 baskets was enough?

lollipops prevent the foolish from dribbling...A gob-stopper for all those who missed the point! Nice write...

Middle-age takes another step toward the doddering of those past thinking, while the young, who survive become the wise - all heads now nodding. Fabulous write and imaginative story-telling.

My kinda class - energetic and noisy..

Nice/twisted/descriptive and fast! I like the suckling as it feels like the shore is a parasite on the mountains it washes upon. Not sure about using 'from' in the line...bursts from within...Reads just as well without, humble opinion only.

Just Out! Standard answer... did you forget the 'e' in slime?

Hmm.....too many words used over..You was established early on, probably no need to keep repeating it. love-grew/beard-grew, too closely together I feel. I get the images, and the context, very creative..maybe work better as a free-verse piece.

Are you all related? Has anyone fled this place in tatters? Speaking of the reviews here, not the poem. which is lovely, I like haiku and even sweetness has it's place..nice!

Writers in English often think haiku must have three lines with 5, 7, and 5 syllables, a misunderstanding of the Japanese onji. Concision is key. thing on my rug, I forgot to wipe thank you cat Just a suggestion.

Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth. Thus I render what they have often preached to me: you are too vague; some nice lines in your three poems here, but whatever they are saying is too well camouflaged. But you’re doing okay here and seem able to tolerate guff, and thus might last awhile.

Nice images, well I say nice because it appears without force, as for the actual image..real nice!

You could lost the 'but'...always seems a way of apology for what went before. Very clever write, and one to hang on the mind for a while.

Love this! So stringent, seems to hold form of a rhyme scheme then loses it, excellently played out, not only in words but in the way the mind tries to be bound by form, only to lose it and let it flow...make sense? I usually don't...

Choices and hindsight, glimpses of hidden possibilities all written here. Not 100% sure of the meaning, but I appreciate what it brings to me.