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Rated: E | (4.5)
Dear Sue,

I am Taher, and am here to review this song courtesy Sherri Gibson's "Simply Positive Forum". First out, let me admit that this is the first time I am reading a song that is meant to be written to Country Music. I hail from India, a country that has few admirers of English Country Music; we do have our own variant in one of the Indian languages like Hindi or Tamil.

This is such a beautiful song! It has been written with just the right words and has just the right rhythm for people to listen to it and enjoy. You have shown the singer to regret why he let his beloved walk away; I say that this is what happens in most affairs of the heart. When the jolt comes, it is always shocking and makes the victims numb.

Thank you for sharing this song with us!

- Taher

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Rated: E | (3.5)
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Hi Daizy,

I am Taher and am doing this review as one of the activities of the Simply Positive group. This is a short poem of maternal love, a love so everlasting, so complete and so real, that I felt immediately the tenderness in the words.

I would love to know why so many lines in the poem were written repeatedly. Other than this small snafu, I found no other problems with your work

Congratuations!

_Taher

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Review of Singing By Whales  
Rated: ASR | (4.5)
Dear Harry,

You are a master of words, but also, a very sensitive human being who, through his power to bend words at will, uses that power to further the cause of helpless creatures, such as the hump-back whale, as you have done in this item.

I am reviewing this as part of Sherri's Simply Beautiful Forum, where I have participated in the challenge.

Your absolutely scientific explanations are right on the dot. Your surmise that these calls are mournful calls to others to take heed of their environmentally precarious situation are probably, as you say, poetic licence, but even so, they have a ring of truth for those who will care to listen.

Thank you for sharing this with us.

Taher

A new Simply Positive Reviewers Group Signature.
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Review of Coloring Lesson  
Rated: E | (4.5)
Dear Fyn,

Hi. I am Taher. This review is part of the challenge I am taking for Sherri's Simply Positive Forum.

I have to say that the way you went about telling us (the readers) about the way life is viewed by a child and how it is viewed by them after they have grown old was really creative. I was interested in knowing how you coloured your circle, and your poem went about doing exactly that.

I was unable to understand why the circle of seasons speeds up as we age. Perhaps we find that our time on this planet is running out? Perhaps it is our impatience to get things done? Or is it that the pace of this planet's inhabitants has undergone an inexplicable secular increase and we are unable to stop this thing.

I enjoyed the poem very much, especially the last few lines which held out hope and despair in equal measure.

Thank you for sharing this poem with us!

- Taher

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Review of Hungry Soul ~  
Rated: ASR | (4.5)
Dear Rune,

Hi. Thank you for sharing your wonderful exotic item with us. I am doing this review as part of the "Simply Positive Forum" challenge. Yours is the first.

The poem form that you chose is quite restrictive as it needs syllabic coordination as well as the creation of an acrostic. I must say, however, that you have done a good job of it.
My best line? The alliterative one.
The worst? Your use of the contraction "soul's" (instead of "soul is") in the penultimate line. It confuses the meaning of the sentence.

All said and done, a very good etheree-al poem.

Write On!

SP & ARMY ANGEL Review sig.
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Review of Pot Belly Stove  
Rated: E | (4.0)
Dear Carl,

I am back to read your work! Remember me? Of course you do.

This poem is a good recollection of the events that occurred in your house/ the house of the narrator. I was impressed by the imagery it evoked. So much detail, I almost felt as if I was in the house! Perhaps as the "Dad" or as the "Mom"?

I also liked the way you wove the experience with your own personal emotions and led the poem to its logical conclusion.

A few typos that I detected:

*Leaf1* "mornings" is misspelt as "nournings".
*Leaf1* In the next line, "he" is misspelt as "the".

Thank you for sharing this personal experience with us on WDC, the site that rocks!

-Taher

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Review of Lyrics: Mommy  
Rated: E | (4.5)
Dear Kings,

Hi again! I liked this poem much more than the earlier one that I reviewed a short time back. The story is intact as is the continuity and the nature of the child's thinking. Children, they say, reflect most reality back at the elders, and the pain they experience is true. When the girl in the story realises that even divine intervention won't save her, she begins to console her own grieving mother.

I enjoyed this poem very much.

Thank you for sharing this with us.

- Taher

P.S. A couple of typos:
*Star* Line 3: girl's -> girls
*Star* Line 4: angel's -> angels

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Rated: E | (4.0)
Dear Shisaid,

Thank you (and Patricia) for writing such a lovely song. I came to this item thanks to Sherri's "simply Positive forum". I do not have much of a liking for songs lyrics as I am brought up in a totally different culture and in a country known for its various ethnic languages, namely, India. However, I must say to your credit that you have written a fairly engaging song with good lyrics.

- Taher

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Review of Short Speech  
Rated: E | (3.5)
Dear Aelisheva,

This one was a nice attempt by you to showcase the thinking of the great Helen Keller. Who are we to judge what is beautiful and what is not to a person of such inner beauty as Ms. Keller was? You have rightly shown the reader that matters of the heart have a more profound value attached to them as compared to the matters of the earth (notice the anagram that earth forms with heart!).

Thank you for sharing this with us and welcome to Writing.com! I sincerely wish you a happy sojourn on this wonderful website!

Thanks to Katherine for this image.
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Review of For Brooke  
Rated: E | (4.5)
Dear Pat,

Other than the fact that this is a good poem set up so nicely with an engaging picture and the friendly, large font, what I really liked about the verse is that it is dedicated to a friend, and plays on the name of the friend with a beautiful metaphor that defines her character.

Lovely work. Keep writing!

Taher

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Rated: E | N/A (Review only item.)
Dear Pat,

I am doing this review on behalf of the Frontliners! How much younger or older is Peggy as c.f. you? She has written a very good poem indeed. The only lines that did not rhyme were in the penultimate stanza. Otherwise, even the repetitions were good-sounding and evoked very good images of the two of you enjoying yourselves on the HCH. Perhaps you could write a rejoinder to this and gift it to her ... Call it "MY FAVORITE PLAYMATE" or whatever else you fancy.

Thanks for sharing this with us.

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Review of Write On  
Rated: E | (4.0)
Dear PS,

Your desire to write has come out beautifully in this special acrostic verse! I liked the allusion to humanity: it is basic human urge to disseminate what one knows, to be known and to know all, to learn and to teach, to hear and to talk, to write and to be read.

The last two lines were a bit contrary: do you really feel like writing when you are angry or depressed at the way things are with your life? I find that I am unable to even sit before the computer when things aren't going right with me ...

Thanks for sharing!

-Taher

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Review of Write On  
Rated: E | (4.0)
Dear friend,

I appreciate the idea involved in writing this small but effective story! You have, in a few words, summed up what many tomes of advice could not have: our writing lives on forever, even if we are to perish. However, and I say this lightheartedly, what happens if we don't have hard copies of what we create on WDC or similar writing sites and the site were to crash/close down, or worse ... internet, as we know it, ceases to exist??? *Pthb*

*Laugh*

Taher

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Rated: ASR | (4.0)
Dear Victoria,

I was doing the reviews for the Simply Positive weekly task, and discovered that I had already previously rated/reviewed your Cat story. Hence, I am reviewing something else from your port. This is such an honest and bright telling of your writing adventure down the years. I am thrilled to see your book's cover on the side of this item, and even happier to learn that you actually have an Amazon profile. Wonderful work! Keep it up, and write on!

Just one suggestion: In this sentence, the construct is a bit wrong: Nothing satisfied me that I put on paper .... this might sound better as: Nothing that I put on paper satisfied me.

-Taher

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Review of Malice Intended  
Rated: ASR | (4.0)
Dear Joy,

I have never been good at writing mystery and detective stories, but give me a book with such stories, or write-ups like yours, and you can keep me busy as a bee. This was a wonderful item and had just the right level of mystery and suspense in it. Neither was it too difficult to work out the perp, nor too easy. The denouement, I feel, could have been done a little more slowly, although, I don't think that there was any error in the story. Good work, keep it up!

Write On!

-drtaher


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Rated: 18+ | (4.5)
Dear Cissy,

Strong emotions, indeed. I still feel that it is possible to drop past baggage and embark on the further part of life's journey with the heart's slate wiped clean of all that trash. I really think that several parents abuse their children till the problem goes out of control; this problem is not going to go away so quickly! The child does need a lot of love and professional counselling so that he/she can lead a normal life, or as normal as possible.

Thank you for being brave and for sharing your personal life story with us.

My advice: let it go.

-drtaher

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Rated: 18+ | (4.5)
Dear Harry,

Hello. I am Taher. Reviewing your poems is always a pleasure, since your storoems have so much truth in them! Today, I am visiting your poem/storoem for the "Simply Positive" Group, in which it has been featured. I am not a challenger though, but simply an interested reviewer.

What you say so eloquently in the above poem is 100% correct. If even 5% human beings reflected on their actions, even after committing the crime, we would have taken one step forward in civilising ourselves. Alas, it is extremely likely that we won't willingly take that first step on the road to Eternal Peace.

-Dr. Taher

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Rated: E | (4.5)
Dear Kay,

You start and end the story with the same line ... a genuinely good tale about an affair that starts with a whispered pass that you have described and dissected so very well. I loved the way you went about telling us things that go through the narrator's mind as she continues to attend class while her mind is wandering amorously. The icing on the cake was the sending of a forwarded JOKE by the teacher to his doe-eyed student!

Enjoyable tale, recommended to all!

-drtaher

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Rated: 13+ | (4.5)
Dear Judie,

Well said! As you have rightly said (and I have, too, in my book on parenting), one cannot praise the child enough! While the child feels as if he has been awarded, the parent will also gain because, after all, he/she will see his/her child's face light up with pleasure.

It is not all that difficult to understand the child: all you need to do is to apply the filter of knowledge, love and instinct. I know that sounds pompous, but try it and you will see what I mean.

-drtaher


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P.S. I liked your disclaimer!
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Review of Hlalanathi  
Rated: E | (5.0)
Dear Nyoni,

I have opened my eyes to see a section of the world that I know next to nothing about after having read your very interesting story-cum-biopic. Your tale was gripping. It led one through the culture and the way of life of a place I have not ever visited and am unlikely to visit either, at least in this lifetime. I loved the footnotes especially, as they explained a lot more of the story in very few words. I believe you wrote this story for the PWW. I am so glad I read it. It was wonderful!

Keep writing!

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Rated: E | (4.0)
Dear Khalish,

As per the view expressed by you in this poem, I do not know if, by reviewing it, I am "messing around in somebody else's mistakes"! This is a good poem and it captures the meter perfectly, and the rhyme, almost. At the same time, it might help the reader to know the context which stimulated you to write this. Of course, as it stands, it still makes sense to me. Why did this poem NOT have the pen-name that almost all of your poems have?

-drtaher

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Rated: E | (5.0)
Dear Friend,

Congratulations on a well-deserved first place in PWW's sixth round. I know that you have won yet another award there, so double congrats! This is a wonderful rhyme that says what it does so eloquently and nicely. I found the last stanza so strong and powerful that I was prompted to show it to several of my colleagues and family.

Well done, my friend!

Write On!

-drtaher

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Review of A Perfect Match  
Rated: 18+ | (5.0)
Dear Sue,

Oh my God! I was sort of expecting the end, and yet, the story is so well-written, that there was no way I was going to skip down to the bottom and read the ending! Congratulations on a very well done story. This needs to be published or something. I could not find any errors or make one suggestion to improve this tale. I pity Betty more than Maxine though. Once her deed is discovered, she is doomed!

Thank you for sharing the story with us!

-drtaher

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Rated: E | (5.0)
Dear Sherri,

Even though the poem that this item contains is written by Nancy, it is the way you have "mounted" it on your canvas that makes me rate this a 5.0. Unfortunately, there is no 6.0, or higher numbers, or I would have gone to about 10.0 *Laugh*

I loved the allusion to your benevolent spirit that shone through every line in the poem.

Keep up the good work, my friend.

-Taher

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Review of The Magic Cure  
Rated: 18+ | (5.0)
Dear Inman,

I sort of stumbled into your port by chance ... it's been some years since we did an Endureview together. Or was it the Veronica Port thingy where three of us teammates with you as the leader did an astonishing number of reviews and got the first prize?

Anyway, things have moved on since then. The title "Adult themes" of your folder intrigued me and so here I was, inside that folder and read off all the titles of your stories. This is the one that drew me in. I am glad that I did, for the story is really well-written, is believable and is perfect!

I understand that you are now suffering from kidney failure ... any way, I shall always pray for you. Be well and be blessed.

Thanks to Katherine for this image.
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