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Review of My Own Tongue  
Review by Dr M C Gupta
Rated: E | (4.0)
Thanks for entering your poem in the "FIVE STAR POETRY CONTEST:editor's choice.

You have chosen a rare theme. I have not seen a poem on this theme (Pronunciation in a different language) during the 8 years spent on this site.

I felt the poem is too short and ends rather abruptly. Line 4 and 7 are not clear. A footnote would have been appropriate.



M C Gupta

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Review of An Ode  
Review by Dr M C Gupta
Rated: E | (5.0)
Thanks for entering your poem in the "FIVE STAR POETRY CONTEST:editor's choice.

It is a very nice poem. Poems in the gastronomy genre are rare. You have done full justice to the theme which would don't an ordinary poet. By writing a long poetic description of the culinary delights and sensations in a manner replete with rich vocabulary without any grammatical or spelling mistakes, you have shown your rich talent.

M C Gupta

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Review of Eternity's sleep  
Review by Dr M C Gupta
Rated: E | (5.0)
Thanks for entering your poem in the "FIVE STAR POETRY CONTEST:editor's choice.

This is a very good poem. The feelings are deep and visible. The imagery is abundant. The ending is remarkable.



So let the darkness come let me feel it's embrace.

>> its
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Review of Sonnet of Loss  
Review by Dr M C Gupta
Rated: E | (5.0)
Thanks for entering your poem in the "SONNET AND GHAZAL CONTEST: Closed.

Your sonnet is nice. It would have been nicer if:

--You had used punctuation

--Taken a syllable away from the following--

Pools of internal gift puddle 'round the floor


M C Gupta

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POETRY IN RHYME - RHYTHM CONTEST-winner  (E)
A monthly contest for formal poetry in rhyme and meter.
#1017054 by Dr M C Gupta

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Review by Dr M C Gupta
Rated: 13+ | (5.0)
Thanks for entering your poem in the "SONNET AND GHAZAL CONTEST: Closed.

Your sonet is truly amazing for its theme, feelings, imagery, structure and word choice. I have no suggestions to offer. There are no mistakes.

M C Gupta

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POETRY IN RHYME - RHYTHM CONTEST-winner  (E)
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#1017054 by Dr M C Gupta

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Review of Suffering  
Review by Dr M C Gupta
Rated: 18+ | (3.0)
This poem calls for comment.


Discontent, and mellow acception,
Malice, and clandestine exertion,
Cramped pains and fractionated memory -
Brought to a beam so painful it must be concealed;
No feeling can be allowed
Or a total breakdown will be shrouded by tears.

>>>Acception? fractionated? {fractured might be better]; shrouded by tears? [the better form would be--shrouded in tears.]



She hurts so deeply,
She's been hurt so deeply,
By all that she's cared for -
Her only peace is knowing her pain lives.

>>>There appears to be inconsistency of feelings here.


M C Gupta
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Review of Moon Tribute!  
Review by Dr M C Gupta
Rated: E | (4.5)

It is a beautiful poem with a very novel and wonderful theme about the moon being the night's watchman while the sun is away!

Your poem has good flow. It has rhyme. Attending to meter / syllabic counts will improve it further.


The Moon takes its place up over head
>>> overhead


Whether your full, or feeling blue
>>> you're

M C Gupta
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Review by Dr M C Gupta
Rated: 13+ | (5.0)
Here is a great poem in good rhyme with fair flow, having a basic and evergreen message for the mankind--to toil hard, not to have too much, because much brings much greed. That is what Jesus taught through his parables.

Your poem will improve further if you can take care of maintaining a constant meter / syllabic scheme.

M C Gupta

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Review by Dr M C Gupta
Rated: E | (4.0)
Nice poem. Uses some unusual similes--such as the short stick. The comparison of one's sweet heart's love with that between a brother and sister certainly is unusual.

M C Gupta

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Review of WHISPERS  
Review by Dr M C Gupta
Rated: E | (3.5)
These five lines in free verse express good wishes for someone.

It would be nice if this can be extended to a fuller length poem.

M C Gupta
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Review of Already whole  
Review by Dr M C Gupta
Rated: E | (3.5)
This is a nice poem but needs to be revised:

--Flow can be enhanced. Too much variability in line length can be reduced.

--You start with you, change to he, then revert to you in the poem. Constancy must be maintained.



look for your actions to bring a about its return,
>> look for your actions to bring about its return,

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I wonder if I’m flawed and what he might have seen?
>> I wonder if I’m flawed and what you might have seen?
[In previous 4 stanzas, you have used you, not he.]


M C Gupta
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Review of Dreams We Share  
Review by Dr M C Gupta
Rated: ASR | (4.5)
This is a beautiful poem, expressing much in simple words that seem to come out naturally.

I could spot but one mistake--

Together we find sleep.
In cased in this, our shell.


>>>

Together we find sleep
encased in this, our shell.

M C Gupta

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Review of You Don't Know  
Review by Dr M C Gupta
Rated: 18+ | (4.5)
This is a wonderful poem. I felt a few stanzas could be reworked to enhance the flow. This happens when a verse is not in meter and some lines are too long. You might like to especially have a re-look at stanzas 6 and 7.

But for this, I would have rated it 5.

M C Gupta

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Review of True Love  
Review by Dr M C Gupta
Rated: E | (3.5)
It is a nice poem. My first feeling on reading it was that it is too short. Sometimes a poem has to be short because of its form, such as a haiku or limerick or because of its nature or content. A poem on true love in rhyme does not have such constraint.

my second feeling was that though written in rhyme, the rhythm can possibly be enhanced.

M C Gupta
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Review by Dr M C Gupta
Rated: E | (4.5)
Thanks for entering your poem in the "FIVE STAR POETRY CONTEST:editor's choice.

It is a nice poem. It is a bit too abstract and unusual to fully understand at first glance, but it is easy to see that it is a poem well written.

M C Gupta

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Review of Faded memories  
Review by Dr M C Gupta
Rated: E | (3.5)
Thanks for entering your poem in the "FIVE STAR POETRY CONTEST:editor's choice.

You have written it as a terza rima. Your rhyme scheme is correct but syllabic scheme is not.

The counts are--

10 10 11
11 10 10
11 11 11
10 11

You need to have a constant count per line. The preferred number is 11 per line--


"A Terza Rima is a poem with an eleven syllable count in each line and a rhyming scheme of aba, bcb, cdc, dd".
---http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/terzarim...


M C Gupta

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Review of Brick by Brick  
Review by Dr M C Gupta
Rated: E | (4.0)
It is a good poem. Written as free verse, it has flow. There are no spelling or grammar mistakes. The message is clear and relevant.

The following is quite graphic--

As
one
piece
crumbles
another
will
too

M C Gupta

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Review by Dr M C Gupta
Rated: E | (4.5)
This is obviously not an independent poem but a part of a story. That does not matter. Your poetic and linguistic skills stand out prominently.

The image of a woman

"holding a marionette of stark white and nameless sugar skulls in one hand
and a group of bright red and orange marigolds and camillias in the other."


is difficult to forget without giving it a second thought.

M C Gupta

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Review by Dr M C Gupta
Rated: ASR | (4.0)
It is a nice poem. Its title and intro state--

"Instincts of My Inner Animal:
For contest--What kind of animal are you? Here's my answer"


It appears that the writer is alluding to the wolf as the inner animal. The poem does justice to that thought.

The one line that seemed out of place to me was--"A red tail above me soars" in--


Instinct leads with each step
A red tail above me soars


M C Gupta
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Review by Dr M C Gupta
Rated: E | (3.0)

This article is probably meant to provide an insight to the reader about what haunts a female teenager's mind about her looks and clothes. It does provide a bit of that.

It needs to be polished.

*****

I would have submit to the surrounding call if not for the warm interference of my own mother.
>>> submitted

*

I resume my stance with in the racks of closing
>>> Probably you meant--"I resume my stance within the racks of clothing"

M C Gupta
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Review of Appreciation  
Review by Dr M C Gupta
Rated: E | (3.5)
This poem is a bit difficult to understand fully. Vagueness due to mystery, symbolism, abstractness etc.is fine in poetry. But vagueness due to uncertainty of grammar, punctuation etc. is best avoided. Lines 5,6 and 7 clearly point to avoidable vagueness. Moreover, it helps the reader if the poem is divided into verses / stanzas etc.

This is a nice poem but can be made nicer.

M C Gupta

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Review by Dr M C Gupta
Rated: E | (4.5)
It is a very good story. Being real adds to its charm. Hope you add more in this book / journal.

M C Gupta
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Review of Horizon  
Review by Dr M C Gupta
Rated: E | (3.5)
Thanks for entering your poem in the "SONNET AND GHAZAL CONTEST: Closed.

You have tried to write a ghazal. It is not. The most important and essential attribute of a ghazal is the set of rhyming words, there being two of such words in the first couplet and one in the second line of each succeeding couplets.

I thought it best to illustrate this by attempting to write a ghazal of my own using your seed line--"The Moon is no longer able to rise". You may view it at--"MOON IS NO LONGER ABLE TO RISE:ghazal.


M C Gupta

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POETRY IN RHYME - RHYTHM CONTEST-winner  (E)
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#1017054 by Dr M C Gupta

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Review of Tireless  
Review by Dr M C Gupta
Rated: E | (5.0)
Thanks for entering your poem in the "FIVE STAR POETRY CONTEST:editor's choice.

It is not easy to write a pantoum. You have written it well. Besides the poetical aspect, this poem has a clear and practical message--not to be so drowned in work / pursuit of wealth as to lose the pleasure of living.


M C Gupta

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Review of Acceptance  
Review by Dr M C Gupta
Rated: E | (3.0)
I think you need to work a bit to call it a proper poem. But even before that, you need to take care of your grammar.

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EXAMPLES--

And though sometimes the world is scared, and their fears overtake them in many ways.

>> Who is 'their'?

Maybe--

And though sometimes the people are scared, their fears overtake them in many ways.

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The hurt, the pain, the stormy rain, it all hits them at once.

>>> The hurt, the pain, the stormy rain, all hit them at once.

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