It was about a baby. Not a nice presence though. Perhaps an unwanted child. Sometimes babies can feel like a growth with an inevitable, unstoppable birth and impact on your life. (No I don't have children and yes I intend too ;-).

"thud" implies a kind of finality - at least to me, as in it was the last heartbeat. I know, you say "metronome" later - too late. "Faith in god, in breathing while you're asleep" does this mean god is allowing his lungs (diaphram) to contract and expand? And if this were the case, I would think such a generous entity would deserve a big "G" at least. Can't quite get a grip on this one's meaning - could be the several metaphors - nest/nature, metronome/music, goe/religion, root/no idea. vein/medicine. A riddle of some kind? Thinking... is this the famous egg of the Jesus Omelette??!

"sole" - do you mean that one, as "sole survivor" - or do you mean soul - like "heart and soul"? Parts of this sound like an explosion in a thesaurus factory.

cackel v : make a cackling sound; "The fire cackled cozily" -------------------------- v. healed, heal·ing, heals v. tr. To restore to health or soundness; cure. See Synonyms at cure. To set right; repair: healed the rift between us. To restore (a person) to spiritual wholeness. v. intr. To become whole and sound; return to health (not heeled)

waaa? I don't get i.

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"clairaudience" - thank you, good word. "hearing [a] sound[s] that linger[s]" you are allowed one "s" "condole" while a word, is awkward here (console). haunter - unusual, and usualy apostrophied. well. it's very heavy in vocab, and the subject is done and done and done - but somehow this rises a bit above the usual ... crap, for lack of a better word. Another example of, "in the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king". You get an 8 for making me go to the web 3 times to look things up.

turn each stanza into a poem then call back.

silly, cute. have a nine.

ars poetica, eh? Tough ground, tough ground because there is, imho, an expectation of artfulness in the expression. This one, while not breaking any new, has some nice moments. I was struck recently by the thought, "it doesn't matter how hard you cried when you wrote it - it don't make it good". This one though, aint bad.

As an excercise try to take out exactly half the words - gives you something like fourty to work with. Try it.

yeah, this needs to be longer. And consider something else besides the hours/devours couplet. good stuff.

I like the language, but it's plagued a little by some grammar/syntax issues and it looses something with concessions to rhyme and format. Easily fixed all, I think. Starts with "fundamental" - I want it to be "fundamentally" but it could really be that you meant it as "fundamental" - EXCept then I see the "were" which certainly should be "we're", the the un-need "being" in "being constructed", some extra commas and I come to "together we loot", "[together we] death" so I start to doubt the correctness of "fundamental" all the more. I'd like to see a version without all the indentations since it tends to be a distraction if the thing isn't *perfectly clear* to begin with. The last seven lines are nice and clean, a little messy just above it (the stealth line seems very forced for ("wealth")). Pretty close, pretty close.

You've make a pretty good shot at poetic rhythm here. "Hidden, yet for the world to see" is a good line because it's a prospect to keep one going.

pare... pwede mo pang galingan ito.. nan 'dun yung emotions.. pangit lang talaga ang paglalantad mo.. 2

The Negro's Plight: The Whemying Lying here nude in a puddle of cack, Besmear'd on my hindparts, and phlegmy, Hidden from sight (for I'm terribly black), I'm a Negro and I................. whemy. My behavior, I tell you, is nothing so sinful: Children do it - and even Steve Buscemi Is known to go in for an occassional chin-full Of the feeling we call......... "the whemy". Driven from within, while its virtues I extol And you heathens and non-PhDs condemn me - Oh God! It's happening! Quick! Grab the bowl! It's....................................... THE WHEMY!!!!