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Ranger on Strangers in a foreign land by luzrheroguy 17 Apr 2006, 2:04 AM
Last two stanzas are pretty powerful.
Ranger on metadata by digipoet 17 Apr 2006, 2:14 AM
Entertaining, though brief.
Ranger on Skellington Bakery by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 17 Apr 2006, 1:37 AM
Hmm, 'To spend perpetu'ty in "pain"' was funny. Liked the play of 'decedent'/'decadent'.
Ranger on Face of Iran by Caducus 17 Apr 2006, 2:07 AM
Smartly written, would have preferred lowercase 'electric', but that's the only suggestion.
Ranger on jay by ecargo 17 Apr 2006, 2:10 AM
Great fun to read, the final line is pretty cartoon-y. Plenty to see in only 5 lines; very well written.
Ranger on view from the top by pollywolly 17 Apr 2006, 1:52 AM
Interesting. Is her glorious view of the sky, with the mist obscuring the unnoticed land below, or is it covering the glorious land, which she's trying to see?
Ranger on greymo(u)rn by lmp 17 Apr 2006, 1:57 AM
Last two lines of stanza 1 are excellent. Was going to say that 'knarled' should be 'gnarled', but it actually works either way. Next time I'll try to be more awake before attempting a critique.
Ranger on Another quarter. by richa 17 Apr 2006, 1:41 AM
Good work, like MacFrantic I don't think that 'frozen pie' really works for this; for one thing, 'frozen' so soon after 'frost' makes it seem like you were struggling for variation (not something which can be said often about your poetry). The rest is beautiful.
Ranger on Murder by Enkidu 17 Apr 2006, 2:02 AM
Was there a reason for capitalising 'Cries' and 'Demons'? It's not a criticism, just that neither are proper nouns, and so don't take capitalisation. Unless, of course, there's a purpose which I missed (entirely plausible). Great flow. The opening stanza is a gripper. I think you can get away with using the full 'escapes' (stanza 4, line 3).
Ranger on Lovely Independence by Sunny 17 Apr 2006, 1:27 AM
Good first verse 'child eating cookies' would have sounded better in my opinion. I like the use of 'weary', to me it doubled as 'wary'. Stanzas two and three work well. Number four lost a little coherence in my reading - 'sleep insom(n)ia'? Also, I wouldn't have split the last line away - '...doesn't wear you out/my lovely independence' is preferable (for me, at least). Still, not bad.
Ranger on Cólera by MacFrantic 17 Apr 2006, 1:46 AM
Cool. You might think about changing 'blood lets...' to 'blood letting/Sheer volume deliver/Where failing interest...'. It would keep the original 'blood lets' meaning, while also adding a little more coherence to that passage. As it is, there are three decent yet mostly unconnected lines. Otherwise, good fun.
Ranger on take a jump with me by hendrimike 17 Apr 2006, 1:49 AM
It'd be nice to see a bit more originality in the rhymes, and less repetition of 'dark'. Be inventive. I actually quite liked the last line though.
Ranger on In Ethel’s Honor by Dovina 17 Apr 2006, 1:21 AM
Good lines, it has villanelle potential in my opinion. Would've preferred 'winding rain' as it retains the stormy aspect and carries a little more imagery, but you may feel otherwise. Again, I'm not convinced that you need to be specific with 'sixty-one years', but that's just my preference. Well written
ALChemy on Skellington Bakery by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 16 Apr 2006, 10:53 AM
Good poem. Bad attitude.
MacFrantic on take a jump with me by hendrimike 16 Apr 2006, 11:02 AM
decent ode, but sort of stalled and unconvincing. *6*
richa on Good old days by amanda_dcosta 16 Apr 2006, 2:35 PM
Decent enough. No need for the last line though. I think we get it by then.
MacFrantic on Another quarter. by richa 16 Apr 2006, 10:56 AM
Th last two lines are great. "I sniff" and "frozen pie" seemed a little off to me. *7*
richa on some deleted poem 16 Apr 2006, 2:20 PM
You and I
richa on jay by ecargo 16 Apr 2006, 2:25 PM
'white blue blue sky swirl flash audacity of bird bowing, chortling.' A couple more articles here please.
MacFrantic on Skellington Bakery by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 16 Apr 2006, 10:51 AM
Very original, very intriguing. I though this was a fantastic endeavor. *10*