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Review of Out Like a Lamb  Open in new Window.
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Rated: 18+ | (5.0)
A short, vivid poem about an aging hipster finding an ancient tortoise and trying to communicate with the tortoise, who looks at the human with amusement, perhaps?


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Rated: E | (5.0)
I like your list of Louisiana lingo. Reminds me of my one trip to New Orleans pre-Katrina days I would love to go back some day
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Rated: E | (5.0)
Love this poem, I like the various dreams you list. I like the red corvette line and the Paisley Park reference is that a reference to Prince by chance?


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Review of To the Everywhen  Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (5.0)
I like this Dansa poem that puts one's history into perspective we are all indeed just part of the everywhen and we are dead and gone we will in a sense live on in our descendents as they become us as we became our parents and grandparents or in my case Uncle and Grand Uncle and now a Great Uncle....


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Review of Promptly Poetry  Open in new Window.
for entry "That Woman" Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (5.0)
a nice take on the dansa form. I like the theme of the poem realizing that a women is one's fatal attraction and would be the death of me unless one walks away in time, but that is the dilemma poised by getting involved with such a fatal attraction in the first place! sometimes one just is bitten by the old love Jones and can't help one self.


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for entry "Dansa" Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (5.0)
hmm nice meta poem about writing the dansa poetic form. I like the wry humor in this poem I love the reference to time to eat some pie indeed i wish I could but being pre-diabetic at age 69 sadly, my pie and cake eating days are behind me.


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Review of L'aura del Campo  Open in new Window.
for entry "My Lifelong Friend" Open in new Window.
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Rated: 13+ | (5.0)
nicely done poem about taxes and death. and how in the end when we are dead the tax man can't get us anymore but they can still go after our heirs and they do. except in those states that have enacted a ban on what the right calls "Death taxes" or what the rest of us call estate taxes. If they had their way, such taxes would be gone meaning that when someone like Elon Musk dies his heirs will inherit billions of dollars without paying a penny in taxes. That just seems wrong to me


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Review of Out Like a Lamb  Open in new Window.
for entry "Death & Taxes" Open in new Window.
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Rated: 18+ | (5.0)
god I wish that so easy. But the tax man always gets his due. So many famous people got tripped up by forgetting to do their taxes and the tax man came for them.


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Rated: E | (5.0)
a great poem about the hobo life, the life of an someone always traveling, always moving on down the train track of life. You captured that spirit in this poem that is perhaps a tribute to Edgard Allen Poe or to hitchikers?


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Rated: E | (5.0)
You nailed this French form with your short and sweet verse reminding us what is important in life is sharing life with one's friends and family enjoying every moment we have.


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Review of 45 Rue Héricart  Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (5.0)
fantastic depiction of a romantic cafe in Paris and your friends waiting there for you. almost an erotic sense to this poem hinting at romantic liasons yet to come well done


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Rated: 18+ | N/A (Review only item.)
I liked the long, almost stream of consciousness poem about reading Chekhov and the images and feelings it evokes in you, particularly the dark images it inspires. Most of the 19th-century Russian writers were masters of psychological insight into their characters and were also skilled at veiled social criticism. During the Soviet era and now in Russia, Russian Sci-Fi is quite good as that is one area where they can make social criticism that they can get away with.


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great combo, Acrostic poem and alliteration poem, and a meta poem in a sense as well. Captures a bit of what TGIF means for many people in a wry, humorous manner.


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Review of Together Forever  Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (5.0)
A powerful use of the phrase Dream of Me discussing a man and his wife's shared life together and the dreams of their love life. As you know I dreamt of meeting my wife for eight years so this resonates with me
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Review of A Promise Broken  Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (5.0)
great poem about betrayals, and dreams shattered by reality and changes made and promises not kept. I would have made it a happy ending with him forgiving her and her telling him she had broken it off with her boyfriend and was ready to be with him.


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Review of WINTER WAKES  Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (5.0)
Good use of the form to paint a picture of the advent of winter as the weather gets colder and snow is in the air. you nailed the intricate repetition pattern of the pantoun.


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Review of Force of Nature  Open in new Window.
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Rated: ASR | (5.0)
I liked this disaster poem almost reads like the promo for an end-of-the-world disaster movie as you covered them all -earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, and forest fires could have added winter blizzards and hurricanes to complete the diaster scenarios


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Rated: E | (5.0)
a powerful and moving poem about the work of a quality assurance engineer working to make sure the product is meeting specifications like the gritty realism tone of this poem like the last stanza the best


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Rated: E | (5.0)
aa great look at proofreading from the point of view of a proof reader detailing the many pet peeves the writer has when doing his or her job. I like the QED reference.


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Rated: E | (5.0)
I liked this slice of life monochiele poem about getting ready to go to work and all that entails. wondering what you will end up doing once you have fought your way through traffic and ended up at work vivid description of the process of getting ready to go out the door.


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Rated: E | (5.0)
a poignant write about the heartbreak of a broken heart and missing one's lover who is no longer among the living. I like the last line the best "But you are gone and unaware."


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Review of Fusillade  Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (5.0)
loved this poem about the passage of time and Spring following Winter inexorably I like the repetition and the flow of this poem these lines are particularly effective
Inexorably
seconds sand to hours. Nature's orchestra
plays Prelude to Spring
quintessentially


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Rated: E | (5.0)
You nailed the Tanka form with this Tanka about a thunder storm very vivid images and sounds evoking nature's furious light show. I like the fourth line the best just perfect.


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for entry "Black and White" Open in new Window.
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Rated: 13+ | (5.0)
nicely done tribute to the old days when TV was in black and white. I remember those days, first got a color TV in 1970. saw the moon landing on a black and white TV. Brings back memories. Well done.


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Rated: E | (5.0)
Love it here are a few more

Yakima sounds made up
Pocatello, Idaho sounds made up
George Washington Washington State
Moscow Idaho
Paris Texas
Truth or Consequences NM
Centerville Virginia locals say it is in the center of nothing
Hell California which is next door to Paradise, California The high school teams are called Hells Angels and Paradise Devils and play each other Hells Angels have been winning Paradise was almost destroyed by a fire but Hell was not touched they are 25 miles from each other

Truth or Consequences, New Mexico (Nearest big city: Albuquerque) Origin: Named after a popular radio quiz show of the same name in 1950. The town won a contest by changing its name.

Intercourse, Pennsylvania (Nearest big city: Philadelphia) Origin: Likely derived from the term “intersection” or the interaction between people in a bustling community.

Boring, Oregon (Nearest big city: Portland) Origin: Named after William H. Boring, an early resident and Civil War veteran.

Hooker, Oklahoma (Nearest big city: Amarillo, Texas) Origin: Named after local cattleman John "Hooker" Threlkeld.

Ding Dong, Texas (Nearest big city: Austin) Origin: Named after a sign on a store that depicted two bells labeled with the names of the store owners, Bert and Zulis Bell.

Hell, Michigan (Nearest big city: Detroit) Origin: There are various legends, but one suggests it was named by a German traveler who said "So schön hell!" meaning "So beautifully bright!"

Santa Claus, Indiana (Nearest big city: Louisville, Kentucky) Origin: Named in 1856, when the town found out its original name, Santa Fe, was already taken.

No Name, Colorado (Nearest big city: Grand Junction) Origin: When the Colorado Department of Transportation was unable to come up with a name for the exit sign.

Chicken, Alaska (Nearest big city: Fairbanks) Origin: Named after the state bird, the ptarmigan, which early settlers found too difficult to spell.

Bat Cave, North Carolina (Nearest big city: Asheville) Origin: Named after a nearby cave that is home to a large colony of bats.


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