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Review of Group Therapy  Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (4.5)
I found your poem on Read & Review. I enjoyed reading it and hope you find this feedback useful.


Overall Impression/Emotional Impact:
As I read I felt the raw emotional appeal of your plea 'don't make me do this...' I've been there.

Artistic Voice and Imagery:
I see the chairs in a circle, the group of 'misfits' that are brought together by chance. Do I really want to listen? DO I really HAVE to speak??

Grammar:
No errors were noted.


Suggestions:
This is a solid poem, if you could make it rhyme there would be a huge impact on the feelings you are talking about. Also, a larger font for us old-timers would be great!

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Rated: E | (5.0)
I found your Promise on Read & Review. I enjoyed reading it and hope you find this feedback useful.


Overall Impression/Emotional Impact:
I feel your frustration in creativity not leaping to the fore on demand. I've had my moments as well. Especially recently.

Artistic Voice and Imagery:
As I was reading, I admired your second voice... your "giving yourself a good talking to." It is something we should do more.. that is like taking inventory of yourself, your emotions, and your thoughts.

Grammar:
I just wanted to let you know that there were no errors noted.

Suggestions:
I got a book called "642 Things to write about". Maybe something like that can assist you in your endeavors.

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Review by Sherasi Author IconMail Icon
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Rated: E | (5.0)
I found your poem on Read & Review. I enjoyed reading it and hope you find this feedback useful.

Overall Impression/Emotional Impact:
I really enjoyed reading this joint work. It makes me think of striving for that elusive win, the effort it takes to finish at all, at times makes the wins so much more valued.

Artistic Voice and Imagery:
I liked the image of racking up points to compete with yourself when in the end it only matters that your tried and did your best.

Grammar
No errors noted.


Suggestions:
I liked the format and the use of color to define the writer, I would request larger font size so I can more easily read your words.

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Review of Closet Doors  Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (4.5)
I found your poem on Read & Review. I enjoyed reading it and hope you find this feedback useful.

Overall Impression/Emotional Impact:
Wow.. closets. That's an unusual topic... an image that evokes many feelings and thoughts. I was shut in closets a few times by baby sitters who wanted to get rid of me for a few hours. Horrifying events that haunt me still. My parents never did that, thank God, and I have never done that to my kids, EVER!

Artistic Voice and Imagery:
I like how you changed your expectations of closets into a positive, yet troubling change of shape with the change of life. My closets have been used by many shapes, sizes and colors, so I get that.

My real fear is under the bed images of monsters about to grab my legs and feet.

Grammar
No errors noted.


Suggestions:
A larger font would make it easier to read for these nearly blind eyes!

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Review of Estee Lauder  Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (5.0)
I found your poem on Read & Review. I enjoyed reading it and hope you find this feedback useful.

Overall Impression/Emotional Impact:
This was poignant and loving. A very nice read. Scent is the largest evoker of memory in the brain. I use "Skin Musk" by Bonne Belle... a lovely floral, subtle sandalwood musk smell. Try it sometime. It must be wonderful to think of your mom when you smell that scent.

Artistic Voice and Imagery:
I like the image that you would feel better when you were down by using a spritz of her perfume. I also loved the post-game celebration scent!


Grammar
No errors noted.


Suggestions:
The only suggestion I have is use a larger font, I like the bold, and I like the format, but I squint to see print because of cataracts.

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Review of A New Chapter  Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (5.0)
I found your poem on Read & Review. I enjoyed reading it and hope you find this feedback useful.

Overall Impression/Emotional Impact:
This I really enjoyed. It is true that we are told as knee high toddlers that to love and appreciate yourself is a sign of conceit and narcissism. That is so untrue. When you think the world revolves around you and your pleasures THAT is narcissism. I also spend the majority of my life seeking approval and validation for myself through others' opinions. I rarely got it and felt lower than a dung beetle most of the time.

Artistic Voice and Imagery:
I feel you are 'growing up' now that you realize others' opinions might be nice, but is not the end all be all of approval. I respect myself now, and it sounds like you do, too, and I commend you. That is a hard step to take. This IS a new chapter in my life and now yours, congratulations!

Grammar
No errors noted.


Suggestions:
I like your format and the color, but I had a difficult time reading the words as I am nearly blind with cataracts. A larger font would be nice.

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Review of Flaxen  Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (4.5)
I found your poem on Read & Review. I enjoyed reading it and hope you find this feedback useful.

Overall Impression/Emotional Impact:
I enjoy using words and phrases not commonly heard or seen now-a-days. Flaxen is one of my favorite words. It has a neat feel to it in the mouth when speaking it. (I know, that's really odd)

Artistic Voice and Imagery:
I enjoyed how you used it in the second part of your work. Simple yet makes me think of a pouty lipped, cream-skinned beauty with golden fair hair.

Grammar
No errors noted.


Suggestions:

Using larger font will make it easier for people (like me) who can't see well, read your work.

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Review of The Sleeping Aid  Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (5.0)
This was very amusing, too. Thanks for sharing!


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Review of Rat Race  Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (5.0)
I found your poem on Read & Review. I enjoyed reading it and hope you find this feedback useful.

Overall Impression/Emotional Impact:
This was a fun, exciting work to read. I know the original nursery rhyme well, but this just put that out of the, well, race.

Artistic Voice and Imagery:
What's funny is my husband is obsessed with clocks.. he has about 13 of them including a small grandfather clock he was given that he fixed for a $40 part. We don't have mice (Thank God!!) or cats (sadly) but I can just see the race that the cat knows about and the mouse is unaware of!

Grammar
No errors noted.


Suggestions:
The only suggestion I have is for poor visioned people like me, a larger font!

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Review of Lost in the Mail  Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (5.0)
I found your poem on Read & Review. I enjoyed reading it and hope you find this feedback useful.

Overall Impression/Emotional Impact:
This is a very emotional poem, very sad. I feel compassion for that package because I feel I myself have undergone that experience. I think many people have and do not know how to express it.

Artistic Voice and Imagery:
This really struck me because relationships are often a lot like this. You see the outside, the image you expect to see and rarely look beneath the packaging to see the real person inside.

Grammar
No errors noted.


Suggestions:
I suggest you use a larger font to read, it would make it easier to really grasp your intent.

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Review of Without You  Open in new Window.
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Rated: ASR | (4.5)
I found your poem on Read & Review. I enjoyed reading it and hope you find this feedback useful.


Overall Impression/Emotional Impact:
I feel the strength in this poem... the courage to make a life for yourself without getting brought down by adversity.

Artistic Voice and Imagery:
It is short sweet and to the point, and I like that about it.


Grammar:
no errors noted.


Suggestions:
I suggest a larger font for easier reading.

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Review of My Time  Open in new Window.
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Rated: ASR | (4.5)
I found your poem on Read & Review. I enjoyed reading it and hope you find this feedback useful.

Overall Impression/Emotional Impact:
I enjoyed how you expressed a state of growth and maturation. I don't have a religious outlook on life, but I do have a spiritual outlook that recognizes that there is something greater and larger than me. I like how you spoke of placing your worries and cares into your God's hands. I, too, give up my negative emotions and worries to my higher power.

Artistic Voice and Imagery:
I like how you express that it is your time, and that you are continuing to grow and evolve.

Grammar
A better sentence structure with punctuation would improve the read.


Suggestions:
Enlarge the font for those with poor vision (me).

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Review of Jane Doe  Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (5.0)
I found your poem on Read & Review. I enjoyed reading it and hope you find this feedback useful.

Overall Impression/Emotional Impact:
This was an unexpected and creative topic for a poem. It struck me strongly. I get the impression of a restless spirit unable to find closure as her murderer is still at large. Your rhyming is well-done, not 'forced'. I enjoyed this read very much.

It kinds of reminds me of "Murder by Numbers" sung by the Police.

I like these two lines:
"I was beaten, stabbed and kicked in the head;
Wrapped in a blanket and left for dead."

Artistic Voice and Imagery:
The 'voice' was a bit uncanny, plaintive. I imagine a dreary, dark, dank and forested 'dumping site'. A little of the shivers there.

Grammar
I saw no errors.


Suggestions:
The only suggestion I have is to use a larger font since people with visual issues can read your work.

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Review of Tommy's Request  Open in new Window.
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Rated: 13+ | (5.0)
I found your work on The Review Spot. I enjoyed reading it and hope you find this feedback useful.

Overall Impression/Emotional Impact:
At first these words were confusing, it took a few moments for me to realize this was a turkey having a conversation with a human. But, as I read, and re-read the passages, the words struck cords of compassion and love. This could have been a very sarcastic or ironic piece of writing, but it wasn't.

Artistic Voice and Imagery:
I've never conceived of the idea of an intelligent, talking turkey, but somehow you made it work. Kudos for your imagery and ability to make this a serious sad story about compassion, acceptance and a caring spirit.

Grammar
No errors noted.


Suggestions:
No suggestions to be made by me.

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Review of Auld Lang Syne  Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (5.0)
I found your poem on Read & Review. I enjoyed reading it and hope you find this feedback useful.

Overall Impression/Emotional Impact:
I enjoyed how you used the phrase "Auld Lang Syne" to create a work discussing this very topic. I've never tried writing an acrostic poem. I've reviewed several today and I'm fascinated.

Artistic Voice and Imagery:
The pensive mood discussing the past events and how they affect the present is very distinctive. Then, you make full circle and say that today is worth taking a bright new look at.
I liked how you referenced various aspects of the poem explaining to the unlettered reader (me) what it all meant.

Grammar
No errors noted.


Suggestions:
I have no suggestions, very well written.

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Review of I Miss You Papa  Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (4.5)
I found your poem on Read & Review. I enjoyed reading it and hope you find this feedback useful.

Overall Impression/Emotional Impact:
This was meaningful to me because I lost my father on my 21st birthday and it affected my life for many years.. and still does, even being 56 years old now.

I like this line "PAPA , life is never the same without
you". This is so true, they say the pain goes away, for me it just became a 'throb' rather than a sharp stab.

Artistic Voice and Imagery:
I feel the feelings evoked by these simple words, the short phraseology and abrupt style make this more impactful than a long drawn out wail or lament would have.


Grammar
Given the way you wrote and displayed the words, I see no real reason to correct grammer.


Suggestions:
I can't see anything to change.

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Review of The Bench  Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (5.0)
I found your flash fiction on Read & Review. I enjoyed reading it and hope you find this feedback useful.

Overall Impression/Emotional Impact:
This was a pleasure to read. It was a light romantic meeting and follow through in a relationship that lasts decades.

Artistic Voice and Imagery:
I am a very visual person as an artist. I got goosebumps when I read that.

Grammar
No errors noted.


Suggestions:
I see no need to change a thing.

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Review of The phoenix  Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (3.0)
I found your work on Read & Review. I enjoyed reading it and hope you find this feedback useful.

Overall Impression/Emotional Impact: This work was whimsical to me, a sort of exploration of where the phoenix came from and what it means.


Artistic Voice and Imagery:
You use descriptors (words that provoke images) a lot and this is appealing to me. "Womb of the first rose" is provocative and intriguing as an image. You have a lot of potential as a writer, (this is not a short story) continue to write and get feedback from on here and from friends you know who can be impartial.

Grammar
No problems noted


Suggestions:
Some of your lines seem to repetitive for no good reason.. example: "a bird was born; its flight was like a ray of light, its colors magnificent
its flight was like a ray of light, its colors magnificent, its song rapturous." This is a bit confusing. You do this frequently, and I do not see a literary reason for it.

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Review of The Storm  Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (4.5)
I found your poem on Read & Review. I enjoyed reading it and hope you find this feedback useful.

Overall Impression/Emotional Impact:
Winter storms once again, I like your tone of inevitability. It makes me glad winter is a ways off from now, but it is approaching as we speak.

Artistic Voice and Imagery:
It makes me feel shivery and yet looking forward to hiding out in old PJ's with hot cocoa and a book!

Grammar
No errors noted.


Suggestions:
"The flurries and squalls soon start
more and more heating oil is sold.
People push loaded grocery carts
stocking for a storm as it unfolds."

These words are meant to rhyme, I know, but it feels a but awkward.
Perhaps you could say: 'stocking for storms, as it WILL unfold'.

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Rated: E | (5.0)
I found your work on Read & Review. I enjoyed reading it and hope you find this feedback useful.

Overall Impression/Emotional Impact:
Hi, I read your discussion and it was interesting. You have some creative thoughts about love and relationships. I am not sure how old you are, but you seem pretty young to me, which isn't a bad thing at all. It is good to get out there and express yourself.

Artistic Voice and Imagery:
I've never read manga and had no idea it could be romantic. If you are feeling things from reading it, however, that is good. Learning about yourself and the world around you is very worthwhile.

Grammar
No errors noted or counted.


Suggestions:
I think you have potential to expressing yourself more formally (In the form of poetry, essays or short stories) and should definitely do so.

Thank you for sharing your work. Keep writing more!

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Review of Patchwork Quilt  Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (5.0)
I found your poem on Read & Review. I enjoyed reading it and hope you find this feedback useful.

Overall Impression/Emotional Impact:
I very much like this poem. I enjoyed your thoughts about how there is an inevitable quality of death followed by hope and promise of life.

Artistic Voice and Imagery:
Your imagery is lovely, "patchwork quilt, upon the cooling earth..." This very close to my writing style (which is why I like it, I guess! ). I enjoy brevity of words for the maximum impact.

Grammar
No errors noted.


Suggestions:
You wrote beautifully, no changes necessary in my humble opinion.

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Review of African Violets  Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (4.0)
I found your poem on Read & Review. I enjoyed reading it and hope you find this feedback useful.

Overall Impression/Emotional Impact:
I feel loss and grief for those who have been or are slaves (for any reason, to another person, to money, to an idea, etc) But I don't FEEL this from the poem, only that the poem triggers in my mind, memories of past horror and grief.

Artistic Voice and Imagery:
It is well written, but it feels dogmatic.. like you were counting syllables to make sure you were rhyming well. The imagery was perfection, but I didn't FEEL the poem. Please keep writing, it was well-written and shows great promise.

Grammar
The grammer is perfect.


Suggestions:
Please keep writing, focus on evoking emotional connection with your audience.

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Rated: ASR | (5.0)
I found your poem on Read & Review. I enjoyed reading it and hope you find this feedback useful.

Overall Impression/Emotional Impact:
I love the humor in this work. I totally agree that Punxsutawney Phil deserves better than to be hauled out into the cold winter air.

Artistic Voice and Imagery:
Your imagery is great, being "held up by some muttonhead".

Grammar
No errors noted.


Suggestions:
I enjoyed your poem, I see nothing to change.

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Review by Sherasi Author IconMail Icon
Rated: E | (5.0)
I found your poem on Read & Review. I enjoyed reading it and hope you find this feedback useful.

Overall Impression/Emotional Impact:
This poem was a bit chilling since I just went out to eat at a classy restaurant that reportedly has ghosts enough that the show "paranormal Investigations" (or some such) is investigating the sightings. I ate at the Hotel of Edison" in Sunbury, Pa. Thomas Edison did his first switch from a 2 circuit to a three circuit electricity. At that point, Sunbury, Pa had the first lit up hotel in the world (it was called 'The City' Hotel at that time.

Back to the poem, sorry for the verbal wandering..... I feel this poem is well written and brings an emotional component of loss and grief.

Artistic Voice and Imagery:
This work gave a really creative way to 'see' ghosts and not be ironic or disbelieving. It was a loving look at the loss in their life.


Grammar
I saw no errors and was well written.


Suggestions:
Sometimes ghosts are called 'shades'. If you could somehow insert that into your "shadows" phrasing, it would make an interesting pun and word-play.

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Rated: E | (5.0)
Nicely written. If you are alluding to alcoholism, I totally get it.
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