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Review of L'aura del Campo  
Review by Spring in my Sox
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Rated: 13+ | (5.0)
I like this poem it takes you there I can smell the gunpowder from the front and feel myself hanging on every scrap of a word from home. He had a long time to remember what happened then. Retiring to a family life did not retire that memory. Once experienced it is with a veteran forever.
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Review of Caverns  
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Rated: E | (5.0)
This poem delivers on rhyme and rhythm for me. The ebb and flow of the poem really flows well with the theme and meaning of the words. It is about choices. The choices made in the past and the choices ahead. Their consequences and follow through compared to stones skipped on a lake. I can see it as a warning on the environment, or on maintaining a relationship. The poem is a slippery mirror you can see many things through depending on how you turn its words around in your head. I searched for a poem about nature and I can see mankind's choices when it comes to our interactions with nature as having dark consequences for our future.

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Review of Discovery  
Review by Spring in my Sox
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Rated: E | (4.5)
I like the message. There is a bit of rhythm and rhyme to it in places but that stylistically falls apart in the end for me. Maybe I read it wrong. It would have been more satisfying if the rhyme pattern at least had been completed or consistent. It built up to something but the last two lines just fell apart for me. I can feel what is being said but I think it could have been much clearer. It wasn't like that meaning was being sacrificed to fit the form of the poem. At least not what I could understand of it. Perhaps a link to the form would help, or a description in a dropnote? I really can't complain a lot of my poems fall apart in the second half when I run out of poetic steam.

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Review of Autumn  
Review by Spring in my Sox
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Rated: E | (5.0)
This poem sings of fall. It paints the fall colors with a broad brush all over the lower mountainsides. It describes the progress of fall as the summer colors like green diminish. It brings to mind the musty smells of dead leaves piling up and getting rained on. It is almost as refreshing a smell as those first wet drizzles of spring. I guess it just bookends the hot verdant summer that spring and fall share the smell of rain. Both have brief flirtations with snow too. Though autumn gets much more serious with the white stuff taking up the romance of winter whereas spring is slowly letting the relationship with snowfall to the wayside.

That is what I thought about when I read this poem. Even though it was short in length and small in scope it brought me to thinking about the wonders of all the seasons. Good Haiku!

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Review of Earthship  
Review by Spring in my Sox
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Rated: E | (5.0)
I love this piece. This is awesome. I have wanted an earthship for years! This is a well-laid-out description that lays out the advantages and systems in an earthship. I want a garden in my house!!! I also want a mini earthship chicken coop and goat barn. I want to be totally self sufficient and I want modern tech. The earthship is one of the few types of homes that allow for both.

I watch Building off the grid and the first episode of that show shows the building of an earthship in Montana. I want to build a small community of them for my family. We would help each other like we always do and life would be awesome. I want an electric car and I want my earthship's power system sized for supporting one. I want to live close enough to a city to grocery shop once or twice a month but far enough to be far enough. Thank you for adding to my off the grid fantasies with this piece.

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Review by Spring in my Sox
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Rated: E | (5.0)
This is an illuminating poem. It really illustrates the problem of water scarcety. I live in the United States, Nebraska to be exact. Water is important here. There are a lot of dryland farmers that depend on the rain for their crops. Even so the need isn't as desperate. If all else fails you can still dig a well and put it on pivot irrigation. Or at least that is what the farmers think but I don't think that many people realize that groundwater is in finite supply. It took a long time for it to trickle down there and It won't be available forever. When the groundwater dries up, and it will, there are a lot of people who will be hurting and regretting wasting water on lawns and swimming pools. More people need to write poems like this revealing first hand experiences with water scarcity. Before we are all people dealing with water scarcity.
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Review by Spring in my Sox
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Rated: E | (5.0)
Your job sounds so exciting and enjoyable most of the time. I am glad it makes it possible to see friends and family which you wouldn't otherwise be able to see. I doubt I will ever end up in that neck of the woods but if I do I might try some of those restaurants. Thanks for the recomendations.
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Review of Trading Places  
Review by Spring in my Sox
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Rated: E | (5.0)
Awe so cute! How does a skinny dirty white rabbit manage to afford an electric bike? They are like a thousand dollars. If it is from reparations for the bunny massacre that hardly seems fair. We did much worse to native Americans and all they got were some casinos.
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Review of In the Zone  
Review by Spring in my Sox
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Rated: ASR | (5.0)
Totally fun very informative and cool present for him. I love the wordsearches on this site. This one is one of the better ones.
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Review by Spring in my Sox
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Rated: E | (5.0)
This was a good entry for showing the difference between post-covid life and the before time. It points out the losses. The personal interactions, the fun of being in new places with people you know and care about. In the post-covid era you begin to miss even the annoying coworkers you thought you could go the rest of your life without seeing.
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Review of DONUT  
Review by Spring in my Sox
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Rated: E | (5.0)
The authors note is longer an more complicated than the poem. I would suggest placing all of that juicy information into a drop note that way it doesn't clutter up the artwork. The way it is is like buying a beautifully framed poster and leaving the sales label sticker across the bottom left corner.
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Review of Linguistic Stew  
Review by Spring in my Sox
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Rated: E | (5.0)
Thank you for referencing the Poetry type. I wonder if this was written for a challenge or contest, Most of the time when I specifically follow forms like this I am writing from a prompt which includes the requirement of a specific form. I like those contests and if this were for one of them I would consider entering it. That said it would help if you referenced the prompt and contest or challenge. If you are worried about cluttering up the poem you could always turn your author's note into a dropnote. They clean things up considerably. If you do reference a contest or challenge make sure you don't just link it but type the name of it also so that if it gets deleted people including yourself would know what it was for.

Now to the meat of the poem. I love the way you effectively compare writing and cooking. THe descriptive words you use made my mouth water and my fingers itch to write this review. I especially liked noun fricassee. That just sounds so cool to me. Fricassee is a fun word and it contributes to the meaning in being a fun word.

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Review by Spring in my Sox
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Rated: E | (5.0)
Okay, I do this too so don't think of it as a bad criticism. You should have typed out the name of the conest or challenge that this was written for because as in your case sometimes they are closed and the item deleted so the reference to their origin is gone forever. Including the precise prompt used would have also answered my question as to why this was written. If you are afraid these suggestions would clutter the piece up you can always put that information in a drop note labeled prompt, info, or notes.

Okay next thing I noticed the whole thing is written about the native tribes of Minnesota. You go into how and why the two tribes came to be there The Dakota Sioux tribe and the Ojibwe tribe, also called Chippewa, okay got that. But where in that do you mention The Cherokee as having to do with Minnesota.
If that is another of the names of one of the tribes you should discuss that before leaping in with the stomp dance information. I just found that confusing. Also it would have been nice to know what the ultimate fates of these tribes was. White people don't have a history of treating them well...

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Review of Silverfish  
Review by Spring in my Sox
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Rated: E | (5.0)
This is a very factual actual poem, It doesn't dip into metaphor or any of the other fantastical elements of fiction or poetry it just reports like a google result the existence of a bug crawling in front of them. I would take this little threat to my books a lot less seriously and discuss the many literary tomes that had passed through its gut and the guts of its ancestors.

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Review by Spring in my Sox
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Rated: E | (5.0)
It is a despairing beginning but the poem ends on a triumphant note. THe poet discovered themself anew and realized that the other they begin the poem mourning was really a poison to their individuality and to their creativity. It is a self awakening into being better off free.

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Review by Spring in my Sox
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Rated: ASR | (5.0)
A lot of people miss the simplicity of their childhood where even time spent in poverty can seem like a wonderful magical life full of possibilities until a certain age. That age comes at different ages for different people. It is the age when people begin to see the realities of the world they live in. That reality begins to wear, then dig then tear and cut into the soul of a person with every friend lost, every last goodbye, every lie brought forth to the truth. I am not quite to the point of the poet yet. But I am a realist and I see it on the horizon.

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Review of Graveyard Cough  
Review by Spring in my Sox
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Rated: E | (5.0)
This is a sad family legacy. I am glad the subject of the poem managed to break away from it. It reminds me of the generations of men women and children that were tied to mining, and other deadly occupations because they had no choice. This poem may be about a miner's legacy but I feel the other legacies of the working poor held in near slavery by the wealthy men that didn't pay them a living wage. It also cries the legacies of those that were literal slaves because of other greedy men. People should remember that you go far enough back down the roots of anyone's family tree there are ancestors who were treated badly, like property. Black, White, Yellow, Red, Purple any color you want to pick Mankind has rarely been kind to each other.

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Review by Spring in my Sox
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Rated: E | (5.0)
This poem took a view on flowers and bees that is totally weird from my point of view. I never really thought of them as falling in love with each other. I mean bees are girls and flowers are the sex organs of plants. The bees spread the pollen from flower to flower so that the pollen can recombine with the female organs to make a seed. The bee is a hook up for two flowers to be in love. It really ground in my way of thinking to see the bee and the flower in love. Once I got past that though it really is a beautiful love between them and it is sad how they are temporarily parted by death but in the end it reunites them.

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Review by Spring in my Sox
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Rated: E | (5.0)
This is a lovely lyrical poem. Very much more positive and uplifting than the poem I read prior to this one. That one delved into death and decay where this one was bright and freeing. It breathed a fresh new scent of life into my mind and was really soothing after the last poem I read. It really reminds me that two poets can write about the same topic and yet come up with two products that are totally different. This is a nice sweet relaxing poem about spring and I really liked it for what it is. Refreshing, the personification of spring isn't particularly unique but it isn't done with a heavy dragging hand and I really think it helps.

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Review of Mycelium  
Review by Spring in my Sox
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Rated: E | (5.0)
I will try starting this review over. Damn back button. This poem really sticks to the same metaphor (simile?) throughout. The idea of a mushroom dominates. The idea of an idea being the spore of a thought and that such a spore helps to decompose the mind it infects is an interesting one. Mushrooms don't just decompose they grow and leave a different type of life and structure where perhaps little useful growth existed before. This isn't quite as disturbing as the idea that the spores spread and get everyone thinking the same things. Words, propaganda, all tied up in a small innocent poem.

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Review of Common Chords  
Review by Spring in my Sox
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Rated: 13+ | (5.0)
This poem made me sad. How badly was the horse injured? Was it the end of its career? Its life? A broken leg could be both if it is bad enough. The way this scenario was presented is cold and impersonal it seems detached. At the same time it clings to a kind of rhythmic drama that stumbles and breaks as the horse and rider are injured. I really feel for them both they had high hopes that couldn't have been more violently dashed. It really is a sad poem with a coldly impersonal tone to it. It acts like it doesn't feel but it makes me feel a lot.

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Review by Spring in my Sox
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Rated: E | (5.0)
I feel bad for this male bird. He is stuck encoded with a behavior that he can't break no matter how hard he tries he has to attack this interloper he sees. It could actually cost him his nest and his mate. While he is distracted by a reflection a real rival could get in there and steal what he protects. The idea that a human male could be caught in the same pattern is frighteningly realistic but the poet manages to break away from the pattern by paying attention to what he cares about and that gives me hope for the species.

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Review by Spring in my Sox
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Rated: 13+ | (4.5)
I got confused between the mention of spring in the tropics being all year long with flowers always in bloom and then the listing and description of flowers that I don't think of as being very tropical. It seems just a bit disjointed in this. Maybe the prompts blended together for this poem weren't quite as compatible as they could have been. I really wanted this poem to work for me. It isn't noticeably structurally flawed in my eyes. It looks like a sonnet to me I just... The subject doesn't mesh for me.

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for entry "April Fool" 
Review by Spring in my Sox
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Rated: 18+ | (5.0)
This is a slightly surreal almost nonsensical poem that makes deep sense, resonating with the child in me. I loved the rain but hated being cold and wet in it. I used to make tents out of scraps of garbage bags just so I could stay out and play in the mud longer without getting cold. Childhood makes things like that less an inconvenience and more of an adventure. I know now I just get cranky when I have to splash through a puddle or get mud on my hands. What went wrong with my life? How did my priorities get so totally ass backward?
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Review by Spring in my Sox
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Rated: E | (5.0)
this is a beautiful poem I wish I wrote. I definitely remember feeling this way when I was younger. The person I imagined was nothing like the one I ultimately found but it really is hard to say what the heart wants when you are that young. I really love the wording and the repetition of you take my breath away.

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