I probably do not understand this either, But your imagery is excellent.

Doesn't the fourth line have one too many syllables? Apart from that, a modern masterpiece.

Nice work. However, I saw a picture of a Catasetum that looked short and stocky, rather than smooth and slender. The smooth and slender/spiralling tendrils reminds me more of the ghost orchid in that movie, "Adaptation". What did the French "la Fleur" add to the poem?

I read the whole thing and as I neared the end I began to panic, because I could feel my time to make some sense of it all running out. It does however, have some engaging language in the flashback about the garden - that's a nice snapshot.

I was confused at the beginning for a while about who was the cat and who the dog, and how the dog got back out (?) to flip the body of the headless squirrel around. I think you ought to describe the neighbor more than to just say "overweight" because that could mean so many different things and didn't provoke any mental image for me of what he/she looks like.

good poem

good poem, 10

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good poem, and sliver, can't you see that that was about the angels? i knew rigth away, open your eyes :P~

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I like it that you spelled Michelangelo incorrectly - it adds to the whole nonconformist aura.

It's a Vilanelle alright - Poe would like it; i likes it. Go for the Sestina. Do it. Do it now before all the ideas get used up!!

the individual verse don't seem to hang together very well. like the little rhymes running through the first verse, and flocks and hops

I know that broken heart is figurative, but jagged lungs and shattered ribs?

1-4 rock. 5 sucks. that is all.

Kew Gardens, New York? I'm stuck by "Phillips stick-sole" - is that a type of rubber sole, like Vibram? As an aside, I was watching "Enterprise", and as the aliens climbed the ladder I could see the bottoms of their boots and that orange oval "Vibrams"; oops. Only a couple of the rhymes seemed forced (first felt it with "shutters", "boggies" a bit too). I bet you could firm up the last quatrain. At any rate, it is a very fun one. How on earth did you come up with it? I mean, "shoe hole" isn't exactly a common idea.

I like the first 3 lines and the last one too, but I've seen your other poems . . .I know you can do better.

Hey - what kind of sonnet is this? You is funnin' me, right?? Is this why you are called "mysterious"? Teach me something.

I laughted all the way through this. Great Job!

Siberian Gulag, obviously.