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Review of Paradise?  Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (5.0)
Nicely done, silly pathya Va poem about being a tourist. I like the comments about bugs. I hate bugs while traveling they bug me so.


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Review of Margins  Open in new Window.
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Rated: 13+ | (5.0)
powerful and moving poem about the process of growing up and all that entails. I like the details and the images and language choices. Very vivid poem. I like the flow of the poem. I like the last few stanzas the best as it sums up the mood of the poem.


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Review of The Eagles  Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (5.0)
nicely done poem about watching eagles fish along a river bank. Good descriptive words and setting


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Review of Your Eyes  Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (5.0)
a powerful and moving poem about staring into one's lovers eyes and seeing his or her soul as the eyes are the windows to the soul well done like the last stanza the best


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Review of The Job  Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (5.0)
an interesting and moving poem about a psychopath or human demon and the requirements for being an evil demon I would have made it more political but that is just my opinion this works nicely


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Rated: E | (5.0)
a powerful and moving poem about life and waiting for the bus that never came and finally coming to terms with one's lonely existence


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for entry "On Waking" Open in new Window.
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Rated: 13+ | (5.0)
Great poem about dreaming and the fading of one's dreams upon waking up. Decades ago, I took a course on dream psychology, where I learned how to keep a dream journal—writing down my dreams every morning as soon as I woke up, before they faded away into the ether, so to speak.
One thing I learned from the class was that there is a connection between drugs like LSD and dreaming. Apparently, when one dreams, the brain enters a state similar to the one induced by LSD and other drugs. The difference is that while under the influence, one remains somewhat awake. When waking up from a dream, the brain secretes a chemical that "flushes away" the dream and replaces it with normal waking consciousness.

The key to remembering dreams is to spend 30 seconds recalling the dream before fully waking up, then writing it down within 20 minutes. Using a dictation program works great.

here are some articles on lucid dreaming and writing dream journals that you might find interesting:
• Lucid Dreaming:
o Lucid Dreaming Reveals a New Layer of Conscious Brain Activity: A study exploring the unique brain activity patterns during lucid dreaming.
o Lucid Dreams: Understanding and Controlling Your Dreams: An overview of lucid dreaming, its types, techniques, and benefits.
o Scientists Just Found the Clearest Evidence Yet That Lucid Dreaming Is a Real State of Consciousness: Research confirming lucid dreaming as a distinct state of consciousness.
• Writing Dream Journals:
• How to Keep a Dream Journal: A step-by-step guide on documenting and interpreting dreams.
• A Dream Journal for Writers: How writers can use dream journals for inspiration.
• What Is a Dream Journal Used For?: The benefits of keeping a dream journal and how it can enhance creativity and self-awareness.


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Rated: 18+ | (5.0)
I like the bipartisan spin on this as it is a chronic problem in politics and business. I coined a phrase Idiots in High places to describe this phenomenon. You left off toe post child for this syndrome Donald Trump. Of course that has been overdone so perhaps you wanted to showcase other candidates for this dubious honor?


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Review of Promptly Poetry  Open in new Window.
for entry "Days of May" Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (5.0)
i can relate to this poem about looking back at the end of the month and wondering how one conquered ones endless to do list somehow. I like linking it to Florida weather in May which can be hot and humid draining one of energy


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Review of Out Like a Lamb  Open in new Window.
for entry "Sorry, Man" Open in new Window.
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Rated: 18+ | (5.0)
A short, vivid poem about an aging hipster finding an ancient tortoise and trying to communicate with the tortoise, who looks at the human with amusement, perhaps?


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Rated: E | (5.0)
I like your list of Louisiana lingo. Reminds me of my one trip to New Orleans pre-Katrina days I would love to go back some day
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Rated: E | (5.0)
Love this poem, I like the various dreams you list. I like the red corvette line and the Paisley Park reference is that a reference to Prince by chance?


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Review of To the Everywhen  Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (5.0)
I like this Dansa poem that puts one's history into perspective we are all indeed just part of the everywhen and we are dead and gone we will in a sense live on in our descendents as they become us as we became our parents and grandparents or in my case Uncle and Grand Uncle and now a Great Uncle....


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Review of Promptly Poetry  Open in new Window.
for entry "That Woman" Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (5.0)
a nice take on the dansa form. I like the theme of the poem realizing that a women is one's fatal attraction and would be the death of me unless one walks away in time, but that is the dilemma poised by getting involved with such a fatal attraction in the first place! sometimes one just is bitten by the old love Jones and can't help one self.


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for entry "Dansa" Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (5.0)
hmm nice meta poem about writing the dansa poetic form. I like the wry humor in this poem I love the reference to time to eat some pie indeed i wish I could but being pre-diabetic at age 69 sadly, my pie and cake eating days are behind me.


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Review of L'aura del Campo  Open in new Window.
for entry "My Lifelong Friend" Open in new Window.
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Rated: 13+ | (5.0)
nicely done poem about taxes and death. and how in the end when we are dead the tax man can't get us anymore but they can still go after our heirs and they do. except in those states that have enacted a ban on what the right calls "Death taxes" or what the rest of us call estate taxes. If they had their way, such taxes would be gone meaning that when someone like Elon Musk dies his heirs will inherit billions of dollars without paying a penny in taxes. That just seems wrong to me


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Review of Out Like a Lamb  Open in new Window.
for entry "Death & Taxes" Open in new Window.
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Rated: 18+ | (5.0)
god I wish that so easy. But the tax man always gets his due. So many famous people got tripped up by forgetting to do their taxes and the tax man came for them.


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Rated: E | (5.0)
a great poem about the hobo life, the life of an someone always traveling, always moving on down the train track of life. You captured that spirit in this poem that is perhaps a tribute to Edgard Allen Poe or to hitchikers?


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Rated: E | (5.0)
You nailed this French form with your short and sweet verse reminding us what is important in life is sharing life with one's friends and family enjoying every moment we have.


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Review of 45 Rue Héricart  Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (5.0)
fantastic depiction of a romantic cafe in Paris and your friends waiting there for you. almost an erotic sense to this poem hinting at romantic liasons yet to come well done


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Rated: 18+ | N/A (Review only item.)
I liked the long, almost stream of consciousness poem about reading Chekhov and the images and feelings it evokes in you, particularly the dark images it inspires. Most of the 19th-century Russian writers were masters of psychological insight into their characters and were also skilled at veiled social criticism. During the Soviet era and now in Russia, Russian Sci-Fi is quite good as that is one area where they can make social criticism that they can get away with.


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Rated: 18+ | N/A (Review only item.)
great combo, Acrostic poem and alliteration poem, and a meta poem in a sense as well. Captures a bit of what TGIF means for many people in a wry, humorous manner.


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Review of Together Forever  Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (5.0)
A powerful use of the phrase Dream of Me discussing a man and his wife's shared life together and the dreams of their love life. As you know I dreamt of meeting my wife for eight years so this resonates with me
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Review of A Promise Broken  Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (5.0)
great poem about betrayals, and dreams shattered by reality and changes made and promises not kept. I would have made it a happy ending with him forgiving her and her telling him she had broken it off with her boyfriend and was ready to be with him.


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Review of WINTER WAKES  Open in new Window.
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Rated: E | (5.0)
Good use of the form to paint a picture of the advent of winter as the weather gets colder and snow is in the air. you nailed the intricate repetition pattern of the pantoun.


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