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Review of Orchestra  
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Rated: E | (4.5)
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Why I chose this piece This came up on a review

Overall impression of piece: We are a product of everywhere we have been and some places, we have not.

Grammatical and spelling errorsReads very well. No errors

What I liked?*Smile* This is amply descriptive for the art form it is. I can see it, hear it and touch it.

What I disliked*Idea* I am used to a surprise in these writings--something unexpected. Maybe and I am just shooting wildly, crickets sing by starlight

How the piece made me feel Best of luck. I am not sure if there are hard criteria for this

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Peace and beauty in freefall
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Review of in the NICU  
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Rated: 18+ | (4.0)
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Why I chose this piece This is part of the random review function

Overall impression of piece: This is impressive. It sounds like first-hand experience in one of life's most dramatic situations

Grammatical and spelling errors. I really need more punctuation here. They are our keys as to how to read this piece. There is at least one question in here.

What I liked?*Smile* This seems like first-hand experience. I am glad I don't have first-hand experience. Not only are you describing the NICE experience, we are getting the reactions to it. There are even reactions to the reactions

What I disliked*Idea* Mostly the lack of punctuation

How the piece made me feel WE all do come face-to-face with reality. How we face it is often a mystery

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Review of Responsible  
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Rated: 13+ | (4.0)
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Why I chose this piece This came up on a random review and looked of interest

Overall impression of piece: I love the era of the Oregon Trail. Two hours down the road is one of the premeir Oregon Trail museums in Baker Oregon

Grammatical and spelling errors Reads well. No errors

What I liked?*Smile* It is a tale as old as time. You have a good microcosm of what was at stake. Often the people of the train would have arguments with them selves

What I disliked*Idea* Price of greatness is used a lot. Maybe greatness is cliche. A lot has been written. It is unclear to whom this is written. Not a lot of images to convey emotions. More telling then showing

How the piece made me feel Are we responsible enough to act? That is almost always the ultimate question

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Review of A Donkey's Tale  
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Rated: E | (4.0)
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Why I chose this piece I was looking through animal pieces. We have about 1.25 acres and a menagerie about us

Overall impression of piece This is simple and direct. I think its beauty comes from there

Grammatical and spelling errors No errors. Reads well

What I liked?*Smile* The rhyming is subtle and adds to the readability. I love that you typed out the prompt.

What I disliked*Idea* This is really a simple story. It is very hard to say something new or evoke other and new emotions. I am not sure if they bow down or if they just sit around and eat hay

How the piece made me feel I am not sure what it would be like to be part of a miracle. Think of what they saw that night

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Review of Soulmates  
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Rated: E | (4.0)
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Why I chose this piece This came up on a random review

Overall impression of piece: A nice romantic piece.

Grammatical and spelling errors: One sentence starts without a capital. Quotes always start with a capital

What I liked?*Smile* You have some internal rhyme with aching and shaking. Pain does keep us going sometimes. I am surprised you know about that.

What I disliked*Idea* You have sage-like wisdom and you are 18. When I was young, I thought I was pretty self-assured too. Soulmate and forever in love seem a bit over the top

How the piece made me feel I think souls do know things first.

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Rated: E | (4.0)
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Why I chose this piece This came up on a random review

Overall impression of piece: I guess you can put another notch on your visitor's list.

Grammatical and spelling errors Read well. No errors

What I liked?*Smile* There is quite a whimsical array in all of this. Maybe we need imagination to go where we need to go.

What I disliked*Idea* Talking to yourself is a bit schizophrenic. Probably seeing images that aren't really there is kind of weird too

How the piece made me feel I think we can give up being who we are. I am not sure we have to give up imagination. Tolkien wasn't a young man when he wrote.

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Review of Pieces of You  
Rated: 18+ | (4.5)
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Why I chose this piece This came up on a random review

Overall impression of piece This is a very pretty and sensuous piece.

Grammatical and spelling errors I think it is missing a few commas. I keep thinking a pause when there are no commas.

What I liked?*Smile* There is a dance here. I'd like to think that I, as a male, am leading, but I doubt it. Appropriately rated, but not anywhere close to over-the-top. This has a lot of obvious familiarity and gentleness. the detail shows the familiarity

What I disliked*Idea* A little of the detail goes beyond what the reader can put together. It was probably written for a specific purpose.

How the piece made me feel I wonder why I deserve themes like this in my own life. I realize, I do not.

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Rated: E | (4.5)
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Why I chose this piece I like nature stuff. I write a significant amount myself. I have lived in the desert for a long time and this feels like the Pacific Northwest where I grew up

Overall impression of piece It is very nice to read a superior poem by someone new.

Grammatical and spelling errors it goes, then one space. Capitalize the beginnings of quotes. Otherwise, this is well punctuated and extremely easy to read.

What I liked?*Smile* I have no doubt you were at this place you describe. Not only can I see it, I feel the various parts of it. Most good poetry is visceral, and this has a bunch of it. I know how you felt about it

What I disliked*Idea*: Can't think of anything. A few very picky points in grammar.

How the piece made me feel I covered this

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Rated: E | (4.0)
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Why I chose this piece This is part of the nonfiction writings. I kind of write in similar veins

Overall impression of piece: Short. To the point. Real

Grammatical and spelling errors: None seen

What I liked?*Smile*Honesty is all over this. I get that. Many of the graphic writers like Poe were pretty much depressives. At least, you aren't locked up in a wall

What I disliked*Idea* You can give me something. Pure angst might work if you are 13, but this is writing to read. Someone want to follow you out of your hole

How the piece made me feel You drag yourself out of a whole one inch at a time. I definitely get the concept. Do something as in anything. I was forced into retirement. I didn't like it at all. I volunteer 5 different places. It isn't peachy, but it beats nothing

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Rated: E | (5.0)
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Why I chose this piece I kind of like essays and not fiction

Overall impression of piece: This is beautiful. I have lived with the same woman for 44 years and I can see how this could be.

Grammatical and spelling errors: Some of the sentences are not really but I can accept this as prose.

What I liked?*Smile* This is beautiful and sensual. We can be amazing. This is a great remedy after reading 13 year old "angst." You are moving your reader to the next level

What I disliked*Idea* Can't think of anything

How the piece made me feel Beauty is always on the inside. It generally is reflected on what is without.

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Review of Music  
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Rated: E | (3.0)
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Why I chose this piece This is a piece from read and review. Welcome to WDC

Overall impression of piece: This is an interesting effort to translate music into life. There might be a poet in there.

Grammatical and spelling errors: No obvious errors

What I liked?*Smile* I get it. You are a musician. It is how you see your world. Paragraph two gets more personal and easier to identify with

What I disliked*Idea* In poetry terms, we would say that you tell more than you show. How is music life and reality? Can there be music in the running of a machine? Bernstein's Westside Story has a lot of instruments that sound like traffic. It is chaos, but even in chaos, there is order.

How the piece made me feel: We are pretty ordinary until we let our individuality out. You are not so different. I think what I kind of expect is to tell people about how you feel about music in a way that even an engineer could understand

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MichaelFrom Mountains
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Rated: E | (4.5)
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Why I chose this piece Part of the author's newsletter.

Overall impression of piece: Been there, done that. Most writers can identify with this

Grammatical and spelling errors No errors seen

What I liked?*Smile*This is personal. I see some real emotion in this. Maybe we do get solace from being in the dumps.

What I disliked*Idea* Divorce and unfriended don't seem to go together. Unfriended means not much to my generation. Divorce is a big deal. 44 years of marriage will do that.

How the piece made me feel Can there be a spark in non-creativity? I wonder about that. Who are we? Can I touch the divine that within me?

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MichaelFrom Mountains
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Rated: E | N/A (Review only item.)
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Why I chose this piece This came up in a random review.

Overall impression of piece: I like religious pieces. I write a lot of them myself

Grammatical and spelling errors: reads well. No errors

What I liked?*Smile* I like the fact that Peter was never the same man. Change is, however, very gradual. On this rock Jesus is saying it on a Roman Shrine (heathen) Perhaps it is a play on words of Peter--meaning rock

What I disliked*Idea* You have kind of rewritten Peter in ways that probably weren't there. Peter was a Jew and kind of a hard nut to crack. He is pretty complex

How the piece made me feel: I am not sure if this is the real Peter. His love for God grew. Jesus is saying Peter do you sacrificially love me. Peter is answering I like you. It doesn't come out that way in English. Peter did know he would suffer for his Lord. Jesus told him. It is at the end of John

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Review of Breath Away  
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Rated: E | (4.0)
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Why I chose this piece This was part of the spiritual newsletter.

Overall impression of piece: There is a lot of truth here.

Grammatical and spelling errors: Reads well. No errors. Well punctuated.

What I liked?*Smile* Breathing is so basic. It is truly amazing how so few people have even considered it

What I disliked*Idea* Parts of this seemed kind of preachy and telling. Coming across with your experience is probably the best way

How the piece made me feel: Can we breathe in God? I think maybe we can. Are we ready for Him?

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MichaelFrom Mountains
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Rated: ASR | (4.5)
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Why I chose this piece I am returning a review

Overall impression of piece: This is a challenging piece. Life indeed is not for the faint of heart. We are all a product of all the places we have been

Grammatical and spelling errors arsenic-laced needs a hyphen. Who will rescue me... is a question

What I liked?*Smile* Obviously, this is in the dark genre for obvious reasons. I know about arsenic from the lab. This is graphic. It is telling about life as it really is

What I disliked*Idea* Just the few little things in grammatical.

How the piece made me feel Who will rescue me? has an obvious answer. We are not to do this all on our own. We can do very little on our own.

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MichaelFrom Mountains
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Rated: E | (3.5)
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Why I chose this piece This is a random review piece.

Overall impression of piece: I write spiritual pieces also. It is simple and direct.

Grammatical and spelling errors You have at least two places where your line has two sentences. God is bigger than me needs a period or a semicolon. Helpmate is one word.

What I liked?*Smile* Yu have one of the biggest most profound thoughts that we can have about God. Ordinarily, I would be capitalized but I like it lower case too. The simple style really brings forth that He is totally dominant.

What I disliked*Idea* Could use more punctuation to help the reader read it as you would.

How the piece made me feel Rib is a capacity. Man can't do everything alone

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MichaelFrom Mountains
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Rated: ASR | (4.5)
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Why I chose this piece This came up on a random review. You have written about so many exotic places, that Oklahoma kind of interested me. I spent three years in Nebraska

Overall impression of piece I could see it and feel it.

Grammatical and spelling errors Reads well. No errors

What I liked?*Smile* Interesting Christian reference to the Tree of Life. It might be other faiths, that I am not aware of. There are a lot of images that I could readily identify with

What I disliked*Idea* Don't get the reference to "In America's Hometown

How the piece made me feel I think, in America, that we don't have roots. I do not think that is the case. I am glad that Virginia Wolf may be wrong. You can go home again

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MichaelFrom Mountains
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Rated: E | N/A (Review only item.)
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Why I chose this piece This came up on a random review.

Overall impression of piece: This is definitely someone who is a great candidate for speculation

Grammatical and spelling errors: No errors

What I liked?*Smile*This is simple and direct. I am pretty sure that he must have had dialogues like these. This is simple and direct. Formatting makes it very easy to read.

What I disliked*Idea* I kind of lose what is true and what is your best guess. 62 would have been very old in 1895. Might put a death date in.

How the piece made me feel I am not sure who this is written for. I would guess a younger age set.

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Review of Redefined  
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Rated: E | (4.5)
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Why I chose this piece This came up on a random review. I do some photography, so it peaked my interest.

Overall impression of piece: Obviously, you have thought about this a lot.

Grammatical and spelling errors No errors. Reads well

What I liked?*Smile* It has a fairly good rhythm with rhymes that are not too strained. We live in Boise Idaho, "The City of Trees." Pretty cool for being in the desert.

What I disliked*Idea* I am not sure if I get redefining the subject

How the piece made me feel I am not sure if you can redefine God. God is perfection. I think we struggle to try and capture the original masterpiece

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MichaelFrom Mountains
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Rated: E | (4.0)
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Why I chose this piece This came up on a random review

Overall impression of piece: This is both a fitting memory. Definitely an honoring poem

Grammatical and spelling errors Missing a lot of punctuation. It makes it a bit hard to read. Generally all I's are capitals

What I liked?*Smile* I am obviously not a mother but I lived with one--twice. You have got this down pretty well. It is graphic and it really is the way it probably was. Your conclusions are pretty well founded

What I disliked*Idea*: Maybe latrine should be earlier in the mix of things. It was that way for nine months

How the piece made me feel: I bought all of this. It is graphic, without being over the top.

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Review of Family Affair  
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Rated: E | (4.0)
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Why I chose this piece This came up on a random review

Overall impression of piece: Interesting! I too have a military background and perhaps have been hit with a similar creative hammer.

Grammatical and spelling errors Reads well. No errors

What I liked?*Smile*I get the feeling that the story is told first hand and, is very real. You must have a lot of pride in your family.

What I disliked*Idea* Need something to tell me what mall you are walking. Don't really know where there is. Could be in your little introduction, I don't get what your little co-ordinates are in parentheses.

How the piece made me feel Every Thursday, I volunteer at a Military History Museum. Most folks have no idea of the level of sacrifice. We do have families like yours affiliated with our museum. Some go back to the revolutionary war. Me do have generations to think of. They will forget if we let them

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MichaelFrom Mountains
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Rated: E | (3.5)
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Why I chose this piece I like essays and like learning things. Who can say they know all about this? Welcome to WDC

Overall impression of piece Everyone needs just the facts. Good attempt.

Grammatical and spelling errors: Cosmic string is not a sentence. Here's and let's are contractions and need apostrophes

What I liked?*Smile* Definitely a herculean task. Define the meaning and components of the universe.

What I disliked*Idea* All of this is really hypothetical. We need some grounding as to why this is important. I wouldn't depend on url's to tell your story. One of yours is defunct and the other not recognized as reliable by my browser.

How the piece made me feel: Tell us why you have authority and why we should believe you.

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MichaelFrom Mountains
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Rated: 13+ | (5.0)
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Why I chose this piece This came up on read and review.

Overall impression of piece Very nice. Why not a sonnet for a dance motif?

Grammatical and spelling errors Well punctuated. Reads well

What I liked?*Smile* Always like the format being put in, although I would have probably picked this one up. Couplet at the end gives very nice closure. The pas de deux is thought-provoking. I did have to look it up to make sure I got it.

What I disliked*Idea*: This is perfect.

How the piece made me feel

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Rated: E | (3.5)
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Why I chose this piece This came up on a random review

Overall impression of piece: This is a classic looking fantasy

Grammatical and spelling errors: No overt errors

What I liked?*Smile*: I could see the scene. It is described in quite some detail and with a lot of specificity

What I disliked*Idea* The title doesn't add much to the piece. I am not sure why this is written. I am kind of looking for a character to change or be affected and am missing it. I am not sure who she is talking to. Even internal dialogue could use a little more.

How the piece made me feel

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Review of Homelessness  
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Rated: 13+ | (3.5)
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Why I chose this piece I like essays and the topic interested me. Welcome to WDC

Overall impression of piece: This is pretty succinct about a pervasive and important problem today

Grammatical and spelling errors: Block style of formatting means you have a line in between paragraphs. Especially on the screen, it is hard to read. I don't see any grammatical miscues.

What I liked?*Smile* You seem to have some background about this and raise some pretty good points. It is a dynamic problem today

What I disliked*Idea* This seems like an academic paper. Maybe real footnotes would have been in order. Your sense of who you are and why you are writing this is kind of lost. I there doesn't make sense to me.

How the piece made me feel Tell us something about yourself on the screen. It really helps us as reviewers. Some of the homeless don't want help. We give them free housing and rules and they won't buy into them

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Peace and beauty in freefall
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