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 |  | Poems old and new  [E] contains some of my present and past poetry.  |
| (5.0)  HAPPY WDC ACCOUNT ANNIVERSARY FROM "Anniversary Reviews"  Hello, Jaya, aka vindhya! INITIAL IMPRESSION / OVERVIEW:  I enjoyed reading your "Power of Love" poem every time I read it, including today. Your writing kept me riveted and I read straight through to the end every time. Congratulations to you on winning Honorable Mention in my 2024 round of the Thankful Poetry Contest! I hope you'll enter again this year.  MORE DETAILED FEEDBACK:  Happy Writing.Com Anniversary month! I read this "Power of Love" poem of yours many times in the past (when entered, during judging at every level, randomly, and again today) and enjoyed it, but didn't have time to review it right then, so I flagged it for an anniversary review (meaning I saved the link to it in a special "April" file.  ). I hope you enjoy this review as a celebration of your time here and find the review uplifting and encouraging. It is meant to be honest and respectful, in accordance with WDC guidelines. I found your poem to be uplifting and delightful to read. My favorite part was that gratitude was woven throughout. I loved your poem so much. It was full of gratitude and beautiful and inspiring to read. I loved that your heart for God shone throughout it. I thought the free verse style of poetry worked well with the message of your poem. My favorite line was the "never losing to the ephemeral, the illusory." line. Though I really loved the last stanza, and so that would be me favorite stanza. I thought you did a great job with following the rules of my contest. I know 15 lines is a tricky one, and you did it very well. You wrote two new and refreshing poems and I enjoyed them both. This one just edged the other one out by a hair. I didn't notice any spelling or grammatical mistakes (or mistakes of any kind) in your "Power of Love" poem. I appreciated that you included information on my contest below your poem and that you even linked to it. Thank you for the publicity. I thought the experience genre you selected for the folder this poem is in was an appropriate match for it. I liked that you included your word count and poetry form along with the contest information below your poem.IDEAS TO MAKE YOUR PIECE STRONGER: In the spirit of helpfulness, and because of the requirements of a new reviewing challenge I joined recently, I have two little suggestions to make your piece stronger. If you're interested in some constructive criticism, read on. But if you aren't, no worries. Just know that I enjoyed your piece and move on to the next section. Still reading? You're brave! Yay for you!   The "other" genre isn't likely to net you more future readers, as I don't think anyone searches for that. I'd recommend choosing a different genre, and really three, as we are allowed three, and people do search by genre here. Perhaps "inspirational," "spiritual," "religious," "personal," or "biographical” might be nice options to consider? There's a drop down list, as you know, because you had to use it to select “experience" and "other." I don't have it memorized; those are just some suggestions. The actual list will probably be more helpful. Just to show it's not only me who recommends this, moderator Schnujo's Giving Away GPs  shared on the news feed in a comment on 2/21/2025 that “SM has told me, himself, that the #1 way people search for things to read on WdC is through the genre search, so if you aren't filling out all 3 genres, you are literally missing out on readers.” [On the very slim chance that you don't already know this, SM is our StoryMaster here, and definitely in the know.] If you want to see the note and scroll down to see her whole comment, here’s the link: "Note: View this Note". It might help you get more future readers if you added a thumbnail picture to your poetry folder, if your membership level allows that. Pictures are attention getting and could help your folder stand out in a list of search results. If you haven't already done so, I encourage you to enter this poem in the Shadows and Light Poetry Contest run by Rachel, aka choconut, username purplesunday. It only takes free verse poetry and I think your line count is within the limits. It encourages the hosts of contests to have more entries and I think she still needs more to award all prizes. As with any review, please take what serves you and release or ignore what doesn't. CONCLUSION:  I enjoyed re-reading your "Power of Love" poem tonight, and empathized with your sentiments that you expressed in it. Thank you for sharing your time, creativity, heart, experiences, and writing with the Writing.Com community! Once again, happy anniversary month! I hope the year ahead is filled with blessings and joy for you!May love, joy and peace be yours in abundance, and may the Lord bless you and all that you do, during your anniversary month, and always! PWheeler   A SuperPower Reviewers Choice review!  Positive Hearts  A Review from: "Invalid Item"  The B.E.A.R. Fund   My review has been submitted for consideration in "Good Deeds Get CASH!" .
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You responded to this review 04/26/2025 @ 12:00am EDT