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 Review #4837741 |
 | Revenge of Squirrels  [13+] The Story of Storytelling Rodents  |
 "Anniversary Reviews" is celebrating A QUARTER CENTURY of Writing.Com! I popped into your port for an Anniversary review and the title sucked me in. I was curious what a Squirrel revenge would look like. Sounds the squirrel had an account on social media and went to town telling their tall squirrel tales. who would believe them? Sounds like their tall tails won the day. This is a poem with 5 stanzas and 5 lines each. The rythme scheme alternates in the stanzas, with one line unrhythmed. There's a lot of fickle word play in the poem which strikes a fleeting, zig-zag image - kind of like how a squirrel maneuvers. I especially liked: Chittering, frittering days away squirrels gossip on smart phones making quite the play Good use of "ing" verbs here to put the squirrels in play. The image is a whimsical one, yet the squirrels take on a human quality - don't we all do this one way or another? In a serious light the poem gives the reader pause to think about the behavior and it is something they really want to do themselves? In a more lighthearted light, the poem makes the reader chuckle at the imagery. My only suggestion, and this minor because I like the poem as it is, is to maybe add a period after the last line in the stanza as if to give the "vinyette" a finality to it and move on to the next chapter? A fun poem that doesn't take itself to seriously, yet makes the reader maybe it does. An Angel Army September Anniversary Review
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