Saturday, June 14, 2008

Summer, Kingdom Come Comments

Rating: 4.5

They pump and pump
The agony into me
With their insults and mockery, I slump
Down, tired of picking too many a blood-sucking flea.
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John Parsons
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Matt Johnston 15 June 2008

Wow. I would say that this is a remarkable poem for you to have written at your age, and I’d be right, but saying would feel a little condescending. Because this is a good poem for whoever wrote it, at whatever age. Though if someone older would have written it they might have put some indication in the title that it was written from the point of view of someone in high school. Maybe they just would have titled it High School. But that’s no criticism; two thumbs up, four gold stars, and one purple moon from me.

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Greenwolfe 1962 15 June 2008

You are a very introspective person. This is a very complicated thing you have written here. You have good writing skill, particularly prose writing. GW62

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