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Review of Celebrate  
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Rated: E | (3.5)
This poem could be so much more than it is. It talks about now, but doesn't place you in it. I didn't feel like I was experiencing any of the love or celebration, I was just hearing about it later. A bit more showing than telling could make this poem a really cool one. as it is it's pretty flat. I love the idea of it but the execution falls short.
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Review of Winner  
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Rated: 13+ | (5.0)
This is an intriguing picture of a family that didn't happen. I am left wondering what the father had done to end up in jail with no hope of being let out. It sounds like his daughter was born after he was incarcerated because this is their first meeting. The prose is on edge making an uncomfortable meeting for the characters just as uncomfortable for the reader. I like it, good job.
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Review of The Road to Hana  
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Rated: E | (5.0)
This is a vivid poem full of descriptors. It is like a treasure box full of precious jewels made into the scenery around the reader. I can see every bit of this tropical paradise when I close my eyes. That said, nothing is really happening for me except the experience of the scenery there is no action, no purpose, no story, It's like someone took a really cool picture and didn't tell you why.
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Review by Sox and Sandals
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Rated: E | (5.0)
This doesn't read as a poem to me, not even as lyrical prose. This reads as an inspired description setting a scene for future action, it makes me ask what is about to happen here? Why do I care so much about the brilliant detail and mind of Michelangelo? This begs for something to happen. an experience to be had.
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Review by Sox and Sandals
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Rated: ASR | (5.0)
This is a very emotional experience, as the day was for most people. I wonder if the poet would write the same thing today as back then. I don't know if I would. So much more shocking stuff has happened since then, but it feels like that day was the beginning, perhaps of the end? THe end of what I don't know but the maya believed that history was like a wheel and the end of one world just rang the starting bells for another.
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Review of I Am Seen  
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Rated: E | (5.0)
This is a very meditative poem. I like the last two lines I think all the others build to them. I could see so much more added to this poem, but to do any of that would damage it I think. It could possibly do with being shorter without too much damage, but seeing as I would add more taking anything out probably wouldn't help it any.
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Review by Sox and Sandals
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Rated: 18+ | (5.0)
Well he sounded okay to me. I loved this story and wish I had some about my parents like it. They were both Christians so they discouraged drinking in all of its forms for the longest time. By the time they admitted I wouldn't go to hell for it, well we weren't in a place where drunken shenanigans would be shared openly.
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Review of 365 days  
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Rated: E | (5.0)
I have had a friend/fiendship like this. You think you miss them but when all comes to the end you make each other miserable and you find that they are just villains in the clothing of a prince or princess. I have thought about reaching out to my "friend" this poem reminded me of exactly why I shouldn't. The way I remember things is not how they actually were. THank you.
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Review by Sox and Sandals
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Rated: E | (4.0)
That is the type of football I can get behind. I am American and really don't get our football. You play with your hands, how is that football? Never mind! This article is full of information and wonderful details. It lacks in the style department. I read every bit of the author's enthusiasm in the wording but it is much more a list of career accomplishments than it is an article about an accomplished career.
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Review of Running Scared  
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Rated: E | (5.0)
This is the second story I have read recently that has begun with a horrid winter storm and ended up with the couple driving it taking refuge in a haunted location. In the other one the characters didn't end up just scared though. That makes this one the more pleasant read. although I admit to getting through the first paragraph and thinking oh man, not again...
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Review by Sox and Sandals
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Rated: E | (5.0)
This is a very romantic view on a very simple daily occurrence. It paints beautiful pictures of the sights and sounds of nightfall. It also likens nightfall to the seduction of dusk. The personification is perfect and I love the wording used throughout. The unusual way the author has of wording things is entertaining and makes the poem lyrical.
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Review of Time in a Bottle  
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Rated: ASR | (5.0)
I thought this might be some kind of scifi from the title and the first few paragraphs. Then it became clear this was a tale of being dragged out of grief by the memory of a loved one. This is pretty inspirational. I wish when I missed my mother most that I would have dreams like this one to remind me of her in a less painful way.
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Review by Sox and Sandals
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Rated: E | (4.5)
It is a poem of hope. While it set, mired in a dark place this poem accepts that there is still something beyond the depression and current darkness. It doesn't particularly rhyme but it does flow from one stanza to the next. I had hoped that the poem would end with finding the light again but it ends with the promise of light to come and I suppose that is good enough
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Review by Sox and Sandals
Rated: E | (5.0)
This is a cool chapter from a longer work. the characters are well balanced and seem real despite their scifi setting. I guess the word I am looking for is believable. It is sad that Thom dies so early in the chapter, I would have liked to get to know him better but I guess I could read the rest of this story.
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Review by Sox and Sandals
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Rated: E | (5.0)
well, that was interesting, it takes a very negative view of reality and tries to spread it like spackle over everything. It reminds me of public school, at least my experience of it. In that it instills an artificial sameness in all who graduate from it. It is a hostile and poisonous experience and this poem definitely reminded me of it.
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Review of The Jester Poems  
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Rated: E | (5.0)
This is an awesome folder full of buried and not so buried treasure. I am not sure what another point of view could add to this story but I really want to find out! I would recommend everyone read every one of these poems!!! You too will fall in love with the jester and joshua the angel and cameron's mom and wife and you will have great hopes for his son bradley
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Review by Sox and Sandals
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Rated: E | (5.0)
I like Ester. Is she the one who makes the jester costume for cameron? this is a good poem that stands on its own but with all the others it just adds to the story. She sounds like a really goo nurse. I think this is the last poem in the folder, I'm sorry to say. If you write another please send the link my way.
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Review by Sox and Sandals
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Rated: E | (5.0)
the switch between cameron's point of view and julie's was a little awkward for me but it did tell that the love was mutual I just wonder if there weren't some way to show that without the shift in point of view. it isn't a big flaw it just put me a little off balance with the story. most of the poems the point of view made sense all the way through this time it threw me a little.
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Review by Sox and Sandals
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Rated: E | (5.0)
This story just keeps getting better and better with each poem. I can't wait to finish reading them all, but on the other hand I don't look forward to being done. Do me a favor if you write any more send me a link so I can read on. I love this story. I love these characters I think you should make it a children's book.
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Review by Sox and Sandals
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Rated: E | (5.0)
oh my god, I did not think this series of poems could be sadder. the jester's father traded his life for his son's. He made a good bargain but oh what a price. I think it would kill cameron to know what his father had done. the price that he paid so the jester could be. It is, totally unexpected from the previous poems, I mean I did wonder why the father hadn't been mentioned. but I just thought oh a deadbeat. boy was I wrong.
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Review of Cameron Reflects  
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Rated: E | (5.0)
This is sad. It doesn't have as much of a hopeful tone as the rest of the jester poems. In most of the others the fulfillment of his calling lent a hopeful tone. or at least a tone of it being worth it to him to have gone through what he had. It's like in all the other poems he understood he had to go through what he did to be able to do what he does.
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Review by Sox and Sandals
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Rated: E | (5.0)
This poem adds depth to the character. He is more of a rounded person having faced the temptation to leave his calling and having the wisdom to stick with what he is meant to do. his life would have turned out very differently if he had taken that job. He probably would have been miserable until he died. I think his calling helped him through in the end.
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Review by Sox and Sandals
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Rated: E | (5.0)
Oh this one is so sad, poor Bradley. Did he have to lose both of his parents? That is rough on a kid, almost as rough as being a child with a terminal illness. I hope there is something good in Bradley's life to make up for so much loss. His grandmother is probably a comfort I wish her a long life.
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Review by Sox and Sandals
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Rated: E | (5.0)
Here is another little nibble of the story and I wonder if you had thought of writing a book of prose about the jester, then I think about what you have accomplished with what you have done and really why bother. just round up all these poems and put them in a book together, maybe with a few illustrations. You could sell them and donate a part of the proceeds to children's hospitals.
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Review by Sox and Sandals
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Rated: E | (5.0)
Oh, I am so glad that Cameron gets to see Joshua again and he gets to be the angel to bring cameron home. I really like this series of poems. They are well written and tell the story well in pieces of just the right size. the shifts in point of view are handled well and I just really really enjoyed all of the ones I have read so far.
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