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Poem Title	Poet Name	Critique Given by Regis L Chapman	Critique Date
japanese verse 38 (Seahorse)	Erzahl Leo M. Espino	A nice one also as before. Did you get my email on apologizing for my miscount on the other Japanese verse? I sent it to the email address listed in your profile. I like the haiku, it's interesting because of the evocation of a mythic animal, which doesn't exist in the same physical sense. The rules of land are often applied to stories about the sea, especially in the imagination of most great and legendary works. I like that this poem refers to that sense. Horses in water don't make a lot of physical sense, but sounds romantic and a little Manifest Destiny to me. Great job. Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-28 11:09:01
NUCLEAR MADNESS (old acrostic)	Robert L Tremblay	Wow. I am glad for the note, because I was beginning to think you had been listening to almost any popular music in the 80's, heavy metal in particular. It's a little bit funny that you were writing acrostic poems 20 years ago, when I had never even heard of them until this week.... Gives one perspective. A well thought out treatise on the nuclear problem. Brings up for me how I went to see the world's foremost anti-nuclear spokesperson and how she changed my ideas of this her name was Helen Caldicott, and I got to meet with her later. It was almost like meeting someone from another life. I cried and cried. For some reason, she pointed out to me in a way I had not previously thought possible. It was as though I myself was responsible for the Pandora's box that is nuclear weaponry. Not always pleasant thoughts for sure, but well done n the case of this poem. I couldn't think of a better way to summarize this top ala acrostic. Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-28 11:04:28
Shadow of Still	DeniMari Z.	A very simply stated and heart-warming poem. It's sometimes nice to hear things like this said explicitly, rather than thinking them by themselves into the ether. I especially like the first stanza. It's a remarkable turn of words that grabbed my attention. Well done. Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-26 22:00:32
Falling in Love with Food	Mick Fraser	Both silly and timely. A blast from the past and up with current events all at once. I laugh picturing the King singing this- at his heaviest.... Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-26 17:22:38
Tornado	marilyn terwilleger	I am liking the idea of acrostic poems. I also like the mixture of sea and land terms for the wind phenomenon experienced in the poem. I would wish for some emotional chord to be struck here, rather than scientific and purely observational, but all of that depends on the author's intent, which I cannot guess. Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-26 17:13:44
Porcelain Dolls	Debbie L Fischer	Whew! Nicely done. Distance is felt, the years yawn across the poem, and the emotion- and lack thereof- are also felt. This is the tough side of Christmas as a child. Comparisons seem to be the currency of childhood (for those with siblings), and those who don't understand that are doomed to produce this sort of hurt in others. I am glad for this poem, as my own confessional had just been posted recently. I have no criticism for this poem. It's simple and direct and works well exactly as it is. Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-26 17:11:22
In Tribute	Ronda Michelle Nelson	Very nicely done, as before! I am not one for historical retellings, but yours have a personality and a point of view that makes them very nice to read. Almost like a old newpaper, or bard retelling. Also, I appreciate the news, as I had not heard about this. I have only some minor quibbles with this poem: "Her hand cranked propeller spun, by sweaty hands once more" - feels a bit redundant, and could be compacted a bit, or made more understandable. I see a couple of opportunities for this: "The Hunley" - if this was the name of the ship, it could be referred to as such consistently throughout the poem. "But the ocean wasn't to give them back, those that disturbed her rest her lantern faded slowly into the mist, inhaled by the ocean's breath." - feels also a bit redundant somehow- maybe a different term "debree" - poetic license? misspelling? older Confederate English?	2004-01-26 16:59:35
WMD (acrostic)	Mick Fraser	Freedom is not free. What bothers me about this whole thing, is the cost. The cost. What a cost. This United States is not it's leaders. It's it's people. We remain united, largely because we are under a vast umbrella, and are untouched by the events such a behemoth can render. As such, we bear reponsibility in part for that. "you hidden desire makes your gifts unwholesome"- Kahlil Gibran I love the U.S. and the benefits of living here, but wish the cost for others was not so large. We seem to impose this cost upon others, and not upon ourselves. I don't agree with the way this is done, as apparently so does the writer. Duplicity is part of the political game. I remain uneasy even in crowds. As for the poem, your work continues to remind me of things I would rather forget- and for that I have to thank you. Great job. Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-26 16:38:17
The Reader	Debbie L Fischer	I like this poem. I will show it to my wife, who is very inspired emotionally by the connection as you describe it. It's nice to try on the mind of another for a while, and letting words wash over you in a different skin is a great way to do that. She is the same way about paintings and sculpture. She has a real connection to that. I don't fully understand the connection visually, as I connect more in this medium...but to each his own. Her favorites are the impressionists as well. The poem also illustrates nicely the third person who is the central figure in all art in my opinion- the imagined reader/seer. This not the actual person writing, nor the person reading or seeing the work, but the person who the work was really created for. My wife often says she wishes I could communicate this way vocally, as I do in poems. This poem is a reminder of this. Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-25 15:19:50
New Year	Mick Fraser	It's said that a good story begins with a good ending. Yours has an ending worth the rest of the poem, and could stand alone by itself. Luckily, it doesn't. To be honest, I have no idea what the last 2 lines really mean, but I am guessing it's something to do with Asian or Chinese culture, due to the other references. Another guess is the girl was born in the year of the monkey. I like how that is all folded into the more emotional story behind those details. I can only imagine the feelings you are feeling here, but it may be like watching the athletes you coach grow up and develop as people. It's more wonderful than is really expressible, but your words remind me. Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-25 02:51:19
Beautiful Nature	Robin Ann Crandell	I am glad to see this written here. It's also good to put this out there. So often people don't put themselves out there with these sorts of feelings and great job just right up front for that. I like the gradual nature of this, as it's very typical of intimate sex, as opposed to just your one night stands or other deviant behaviors. Being married, I appreciate the nod to intimacy. It's also interesting the subject and the title work well on a couple of levels. From a biological standpoint, it could be said that it's out nature to reproduce (sex) and from a metaphysical standpoint, it could be said that our nature is actually one, as opposed to being as separate as we believe we are. It doesn't take sex to show this always, but it's something that everyone can relate to. Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-22 14:17:40
A Life Sentence	Mell W. Morris	Whew! That was some poem. I am struck by the general sadness that is the looking backward into memories rather forgotten. What a chance to face them, however! What a strength to face such a thing, and what irony! I am certain that this is not lost on her, unless the problem is some mental one, and hope that she learns for next time around. Karma is an amazing thing! This for me was a big poem, with a lot to think about and ponder. Very well done. My ex girlfriend was caring for her mother, and it seemed that she both gained and lost from her newly found power over her previously distant mother. I am not sure how that is done, to be honest, I am not sure I am unselfish enough to manage it, try as I might. And even though I may be reletively improved, this poem has made me wonder about that. It's a nice perspective to see, so thanks for that. Also thanks for the further dictionary.com lookups. I have had quite a few of those today and it's quite awesome. Great words, and they fit nicely as well, to which I must bow before you. I also like the "chronicity" as a different description from perpetual or other terms. It has a tone which fits this poem very nicely. Leave it up to poets to expand my mind in so many ways in one poem! Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-21 17:46:42
untitled	Rachel F. Spinoza	This reminds me of my family, whose main profession is orange juice. My last girlfriend's family were the largest private holder of orange groves in Florida, and she was my dad's next door neighbor. Still is. A great image, and it also reminds my of my youth with orange trees in the back yard. Very good, concise poem.	2004-01-21 17:22:16
Shadow's last sigh	marilyn terwilleger	I like this poem for it's visual feast. I like the animus which is given to some of the stanzas- 'seas of shadows in shivering trees'. In addition to that line- which is really well metered and rolls off the tongue nicely with it's own internal rhyming- several other lines share the same characteristic. The first line caught my eye in this way, and rarely do you see someone who can pull off several of these really sweet lines in the same poem. I didn't think it would happen again in this, but it did for the whole poem! Super job! Also, there is this same sweet characteristic across a few of the lines- "When starry ice ignites the sky and in moon's light, declining shadows fade and die" and the first 2 stanzas go well together also like this. Super good stuff. Thanks for that. REEG	2004-01-21 17:12:28
Blue Tide	Mell W. Morris	Wow. Another poem where I have to use the dictionary! That doesn't happen too much, so I like it so much when it does. Having said that, maybe this is why is seems that these rarely seen words are used for a specific effect, adding a bit of a forced feel to it for me. Could just be me though and I wouldn't take it the wrong way. Emotionally, it's quite a powerful poem for me but mainly because I LOVE poems about struggles with duality, and especially when they end up in the way yours does. I found a fairly large place to direct my impulses this way at a yoga temple, but where you found yours I don't know. Maybe you imagined one, I dunno. I hope it's working for you though. Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-21 16:44:42
Michelle	Claire H. Currier	What a nice poem. Again Claire, you come to the plate with something sweetly made. I do not yet have any children, although I dream of them a fair amount... I can see the mothering imulse here, and reminds me a bit of my own great-grandmother, actually. She was such an influence on me and my life. She was a huge person literally and figuratively. I used to grab onto her and she would pick us up. She died in 1979, but only after many deaths on the operating table and strokes and so forth. She traveled around the country visiting her relatives until at last we were the last group to visit and promptly died after a couple of weeks of being here. It was sad, but she never let go of me, either and it's nice to hear that impulse from someone else. Thanks for that. The poem itself is simple and to the point, with a sweetness that is quite endearing. REEG!	2004-01-21 16:23:04
japanese verse 36 (Ku Klux Klan)	Erzahl Leo M. Espino	This is interesting in the sense that this is only my second understanding of the poem which is acrostic. I read it before I understood what that meant and was missing the point. It's now very clear, and for me I always have to congratulate general ballsy-ness in poetry, whether it's showing personal courage in revealing things generally sacred for the individual in question, or through more social courage. Commenting on certain hot button issues is always a challenge in a public forum, and some credit is due just to that. I also like the middle line that talks about kaleidoscope. Nice way of putting that. The poem is a bit disturbing, especially to think that we still know that this sort of thing exists, but.... Great job on the poem. I like reading the ongoing series. Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-21 15:59:42
Love As A Postcard	Rick Barnes	This poem feels to me as brief and filled with the wished for pangs. In a sense it's too short, but the shortness accounts for the feeling of being left with regret, or a longing that one wishes they wouldn't want to yet give up. I had those feelings about the end of this poem, so in that you were effective. I also like this poem with the postcard reference. I read another poem with a different slant on this more traditional look at it, and havign read that one, it makes me appreciate this poem more. I also like that the ending is revealed right at the end. Great job. Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-21 15:51:23
Blue	Jane A Day	Wow. This is a super poem. Incredibly well done, it actually makes me wish I had written it. I could not critique this poem, as it's exactly the sort of thing I would hope to write myself. It's very colorful and visual, as well as more complex and has a depth that I don't see in many poems I read here. There is a good variety of different visual cues here also and this is the depth I speak of. I wrote a poem about blue also once, but it wasn't nearly as good as this. Super job. Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-21 15:23:14
Love Me This Way	DeniMari Z.	I like this poem, and also appreciate the timeliness of the poem to my personal life. My wife and I are in counseling as a new couple, and though we love each other, we have to work to get our previous lives in sync so we don't step on what we are trying to create as a couple. This is a harder thing than was previously clear to me. What the counselor said about what we should do sounds a fair amount like this poem. I don't believe in coincidences, and reading this has been a nice thing to see at this time. So mainly thanks for that. I have no real criticism of the poem itself, it's wonderful, more proselike than many poems, but direct and simple. Well done. Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-21 15:17:12
Trance	Jordan Brendez Bandojo	I like the idea of being a horse that this poem seems to put across as a subject for this. Really excellent use of vocabulary also. It's not that often I need to consult a dictionary to understand what is meant by a poem, and I can make some assumptions, but it's better to know. I also like the references to the different species, as well as the sights and smells. I also like the idea I have of the Alps (from cycling races) as these enoromous pristine mountains. Very nice to find that in included in the such a nicely made poem. Well done. Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-21 15:11:23
DENIAL	Mick Fraser	I am new to the idea of acrostic poems. I found out what they were just to critique this poem. It's pretty cool concept actually, and this one is done quite well. I will need to try some of these myself. Thanks for the wake up call. On to your poem... I like the idea of drowning and responsibility in the first two successive lines. This is a good contrast to the general idea of denial and for me makes this poem. Well done. Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-21 14:59:29
Orbituary	Sergio M chavez	Again, people come to the table with some courageous expressions. This poem is no less than the others. It asks big questions and is confessional in a way. I like poems that are asking big things, grandiose things- considering the scope of mortality is such a big question. Well done and thanks for showing yourself here. I appreciate it. Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-21 14:50:25
A Poem to Parents	Erica L. Badger	What a touching poem about family. It makes me pine for a better relationship with my own family. I love them and all, I just don't like them all that much. I guess it's for the reasons you list as being positives, for me I had a sincere lack of these gifts. So, as nice as your poem is, and well written, it makes me a bit sad. Sorry. Maybe you intended something different to show, and it does indeed. So it's not your work at all, in fact. Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-21 14:34:36
japanese verse 37 (Top)	Erzahl Leo M. Espino	I like the simplicity of the poem as analogous to the simple joy seen in the kids. Super nicely done. Not quite a haiku- 8 in the middle- but still very nice. Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-21 14:09:17
beep-beep	Thomas Edward Wright	I like this poem, because I just got done having surgery myself, and I saw that the doctor's life must be one full of these niggling stresses. I was overwhelmed by the constant motion at the hospital, and I can't imagine being around that all the time. I also feel like my own wife has me on a bit of an electronic leash with the cell phone. I put off getting on for years, but finally got rid of it. It seems like a bit of courage for a doctor (which you clearly are) to step outside of the warm envelope of know-it-all-ness that you must have to surround yourself with all day and just vent a bit. Well done. Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-21 13:30:53
Minipo’ms (inspired by Bienvenido N. Santos)	April Rose Ochinang Claessens	Thanks for awaking me to this poet, whom I have not heard of previously. I like it very much, and if the style of poem is similar, then I will need to check it out. I very much like the inventive imagery of this poem, and how I see my own poetry is sometimes sleeping under the surface, where it will later surprise me and come out. It's a very cool way of saying that, if indeed I got your point right. Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-21 01:07:48
Inktip	Donna L. Dean	I am not sure about this one. I can see that the writer has many questions. Those answers are quite well served at once by the rather inventive and refreshing last line. Still, my feeling is that I wished for more from the poem. I am not sure why exactly, as the poem it clearly meant to be as simple as possible, yet the veil you have spoken of only lifts a bit with the nice last line, and otherwise is not alluded to anywhere in the text, other than to speak of the act of writing itself. Still I wish for more. I almost feel like this is a poem which needs to show just a little more leg to enhance what is hidden behind the stockings, to use a rather coarse analogy. Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-21 01:01:43
The Card	Michael Bird	I like in this poem to be reminded again (as I am so often here) how such a small thing can blossom into such a depth of feeling and imagination. Just that thought is enough to begin myself thinking of how I would respond to such a thing and to hear the imagination of another in that is one of the wonderful things about this place. I am liking it more and more as I go along. One small critique is the apparent misspelling of the Eliza Ann. I wasn't sure if the poem was meant to reflect two people here, so it confused the otherwise finely made point. It says for me more about the poet than the young girl, as so little is known of her, yet we know that the poet is an empathetic person of the highest order to reach back so far, and come away with something to show the world. Well done. Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-21 00:45:38
Under my Mukluks	Mick Fraser	This is a great contrasting poem. It's written in an unconventional style, with long lines and the soft mixed with the hard. I like that variety of contrasts given to the imagery of the poem and the finish is super. It's a lot of poem for a few lines. Well done. Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-21 00:36:51
Perplexing	Sergio M chavez	Well, I for one hope that this is not the case. I hope that you will not always feel this way and that this was just something temporary that came up for you. I know the TV and I find that it can eat up my hours like I eat up Kettle Honey Mustard chips. They are like a drug for your mouth wheras TV is like a drug for your mind. I hope that this was an indictment of these impulses we are constantly surrounded by on a daily basis. To punish yourself if not something that your true self really wants. I can feel the pain of this and have felt these things in my own life. The style of this poem is fairly straightforward, as is most confessional poetry, even my own. I think that this is a good thing and that epiphanies of sorrow about these topics are quite common these days. I hope the best for the writer, and thanks for having the moxie to post it anyway to the public even though it's something you aren't sure about. Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-21 00:33:02
Pickett's Charge	Ronda Michelle Nelson	Wow. I can feel the impact of someone who either visited or lives near this town of Gettysburg. maybe even someone who participates in re-enactments. The detail and rather well-known "take this hill" and "charge" themes found in war. It's ironic in it's own way while it tries to be noble (I speak of war generally here, not the poem). In that, this poem is successful. Identity is always an interesting point in life to come to, and in that, this poem helps me understand the last surge of this kind of separate identity in a country determined to accept as many as possible. It has other modern analogues- like for Canada and Quebec, for example. Well done to bring that spirit out again and thanks for the reminder of a personal look at history. I really felt I was there with Pickett and his men- for a short time- and that's all they had REEG!	2004-01-20 18:49:17
Blazing Mustang	Robert L Tremblay	I know that on the surface, this piece is about a horse, but then I thought of the car, the Mustang by Ford and thought more of it. It seems like something like America and the Industrial Revolution and the car and so on as an analogue. Anyway, my idea of it, but it seems to make sense. Another really exceptionally written piece. This style really works for you, man. I have seen nothing but great reviews and it's hard to pick any of your works apart at all, other than the graphic part, which is mainly a personal prejudice on my part. Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-20 17:09:42
Fear	Sergio M chavez	Wow. Kick my head in and call me Junior. You gotta like the man who has the balls to let this one see the light of day. Press every hot button, go right ahead. Thanks so much for that. Super good for no other reason than that. I wrote a poem of a memory similar to this I will post someday. To tell of the memory, I once took a movement class, and they asked each of us to do some movement, but I was deathly afraid to be up in front of everyone. So what I did is sit up in front of everyone, and let them have my fear of doing what I was doing full bore. They were sure uncomfortable, but I didn't let them off for one second. I looked them all right in the eye. I think you did that here. Bravo! REEG!	2004-01-20 17:06:28
The Apostrophe: Enos at the Bacchanalia in Cozumel	Thomas Edward Wright	This poem struck me in two rather opposite ways- maybe it's about patriotism and the distortion that is now patriotism- but then it's maybe about women and is sexy in it's way. These two topics are quite at odds with each other here, but unless I am WAY off, I think that's it. Crazy and unexpected and for that I thank you. I had to digest it a bit in order to make it fit into my mind. I like poems that make you really think, or even upset you a bit- not too much though. I like the different emotional signals I got from this poem- at once lewd, or alluding to lewd- and then scientific and political all at once. Super good. One of my personal favorites. Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-20 16:59:54
Green	siddharth Gopalakrishna	This poem is deceptively simple in it's intent, as was your other work- then it snaps you at the end with profundity. Well done. Very visual, and excellent analogues to the chosen color. Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-20 16:54:43
Belonging	siddharth Gopalakrishna	This seems more like prose broken up into stanzas to me. I do the same sometimes, but I do appreciate the growth theme here. I love to watch this in athletes I work with, and like to see people writing about it also. Makes me think you are a young person, or at least thinking about being young, or are deep in the middle of a growth period. Well done. As an aside, as a former devotee at an ashram, I love your name. It's very like many of the traditional things we focused on in chants and so on. I feel I must have been Indian at some point before, because I feel such a connection with that culture. Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-20 16:53:03
The Devil's Ballet D'Action with Cardinal Law	Robert L Tremblay	Another excellently crafted piece, of similar style to the previous two I have just reviewed. All of them are so well done, and are sublime in their execution. It is always difficult to end these poems properly, and if I could have any quibble with any of them it's the ending of this one that I didn't "get". Well done again. it's a huge piece.	2004-01-20 16:42:29
Michael's Manifestation at the Burning Bush	Robert L Tremblay	So now I am seeing a trend in these poems, and again ignoring the visual component, the words are quite sweeping and suitably grandiose. I loe grandiose things, and large visions of things, and your poetry provides these aplenty. I also like that the subject seems spiritual in nature- indeed it seems about the very fabric of nature itself personified. Again, superb work. Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-20 16:39:43
Dame Death Lamenting	Robert L Tremblay	I find graphic poems a bit pointless, but you seem to combine the words and the graphic quite nicely, compared to all the other ones I have read in this vein. Ignoring the graphic part, I find the words themselves quite awesome. It's very old school style poetry, in the sense that the meter and rhythm reminds me of poets from England many many years ago. I cannot think of a specific one exactly, but I like it a lot for that reason. Well done. I also like such a variety of visual and even scientific references to describe a woman. Makes her sound like quite a woman, or at least quite a vision of a woman. Also since the subject is death, it is a suitably broad and sweeping set of analogues you picked to describe the features remembered. Superb. Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-20 16:36:04
Can You (Still) Get That Over the Counter?	Thomas Edward Wright	This is a bit hard to critique, as it sounds like a letter to someone very specific. I hope that when she reads it she understands, as I do not. Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-20 16:28:19
acrostic 2 (Prodigal Son)	Erzahl Leo M. Espino	Seems unfinished somehow to me. It misses the last beat of the point, or maybe it's a rhythm thing. Of course, this could have been the point, but I am unsure... I think I see where this was going, but not where it ended. Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-20 14:02:32
For Mikey and Naneen	Thomas Edward Wright	Wow. What a heart-rending poem. I could sit here and talk about style and so forth, but that wouldn't seem right, somehow. Well done. I have nothing further. Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-20 14:01:02
Postcards to Eva	Jane A Day	This an interesting and novel format. Thanks for this, as it is quite a cool way to identify the "poet", giving a unique, but necessarily distant voice. Good job. Onto the individual sections are interestingm holding up on their own, as you would imagine. Taken as a whole, it sounds like a slightly sad, normal life. How people are doing and so on. I like it very much, in it's own quirky way. It's not a poem I can think of writing, as I don't think about things in that way. It seems a more feminine way of expression, if you pardon me. Like when my wife puts little notes in my lunch- it's very thoughtful and postcards I think of very much that way. Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-20 13:50:28
A Disturbing Poem	Robin Ann Crandell	Well, even given the "grossness" factor, it's still a good, haunting poem. Well done. It's actually more realistic than most people's poems aboout death and things. Death is never pretty, so I appreciate realism there also. I do believe in reincarnation so your comments in the poem about that is also apropos. Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-20 11:31:39
Sweet Irony	Robin Ann Crandell	I can feel something slipping from the grasp of this poet. The emotion is there, and it's stated clearly. Many times when written in an emotional state, sometimes things will be stated very simplistically, as is done in this poem. This in not an indictment, however. Take the pain and distill it a bit more, and you will be there.	2004-01-16 18:28:29
Dreams Will Come	Michael Bird	I like this poem as even something to read to a child, which feels like this is exactly what it was intended for. It's simple, a bit long, but it would seem necessary when reading to a child. I have not criticisms at all for this. Well done! Thanks, REEG!	2004-01-16 18:25:24
Beautiful	madge B zaiko	I am glad you said that this was part of a play before. I could clearly hear the voice of the character coming out. The issues of that character are clear to me. It reminds me quite a bit of my wife who had many many lovers before meeting me, and I have a clear understanding of her need for me tell her how beautiful she is, even though she cannot see it for herself. I see many women have this problem, and the mirror doesn't lie to them, they do. I wish for my wife and for those to fill up the part that is missing. It's like a huge hole we all share between us without knowing it. Thanks for this piece. I know this isn't much of a "critique" but good words deserve some complimentary comment in my mind. Well done. REEG!	2004-01-16 18:14:21
I Sit Here	Robin Ann Crandell	Wow. Please don't take from my analysis of the very effective method of this poem that I was not profoundly affected by it. I was. Thanks for writing it. I like the repeating method used here. It's very like a ballad, with a hook, in a way. You find yourself looking for the changes in each successive verse. I found myself crying at the end. Very effective and powerfully done. At first I found myself saying to the person in the poem to not give up, as they appeared be doing. Also the parts that are contradictory in the same verse lend power to the hoped-for transformation to come. The paradox of destiny and personal power to affect the largest things- even though they may be very negative- is a theme which resonates with me personally. It's the crux of living to me. Makes me wish I had written this poem. I cannot think of highest praise than that.	2004-01-16 17:56:21
Her Looking Glass	marilyn terwilleger	This reminds me of when I used to go with an ex girlfriend to her father's old house. On the one hand, he was dead. On the other, we were in love. On the one hand his ashes sat on the lintel when we made love in her father's old bed, and in his red room, with signed pictures of porn stars everywhere. This may seem an odd thing to put into a critique of a poem, but it's clearly a very large weight sitting somewhere on the writer's mind, and I felt this in this place we used to go. She could never escape from the spectre of the man. When her friends would come, we would talk about him endlessly. I felt often like he was there- he would walk into the room any second, and I could shake his hand, and he could kick my ass for dating his lovely daughter. I hope the writer can find her own place again for her true self, the one often subjected in a relationship so the dance can continue to take place. Her manor, as was his, is still a splendid place, and not only in memory and memoriam- with words or without. With pleasure and splendor, much fun can be had, yet also much can be swept under the rug in fear or doubt. What fear and doubt do you cling to now? What longing long forgotten can melt the glass back into the swirling sands at the beach during summertime? What kind of mirror would allow you to stand and stare ere iit has gone? I am very saddened by poem, and wish the utmost happiness to it's writer. Thanks to you for sharing it with us. You are heard and seen in other mirrors.	2004-01-08 20:45:18
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