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 | Some Caring for Karen  [E] She pokes at your side, but never lets you subside  |
| (5.0)  HAPPY WDC ACCOUNT ANNIVERSARY FROM "Anniversary Reviews"  Hello, Joey says, Spring has Spring, aka iamjoeyc! INITIAL IMPRESSION / OVERVIEW:  I enjoyed reading your "Some Caring for Karen" poem this evening. It was a lovely way to wrap up my writing.com day too. Your writing kept me riveted and I read straight through to the end.MORE DETAILED FEEDBACK:  Happy Writing.Com Anniversary month! I hope you enjoy this review as a celebration of your time here and find the review uplifting and encouraging. I found your poem in the "Anniversary Reviews" forum today, reviewed by someone else that I respect. I saw that she awarded it five stars, so that piqued my interest. Caring is a beautiful thing, so your title drew me in and I clicked and read your poem and enjoyed it greatly, so I decided to give you a review as a little anniversary gift. Happiest anniversary wishes to you and best wishes on your writing future too, as well as your relationship with beautiful Karen! Your image above the poem was lovely and went well with your poem's message. I loved your poem so much. It took me on your journey from lonely to finding what sounds like a true friendship with a kindred spirit. You told a whole story with this poem in only eight lines too, which I thought was remarkable. I thought that your poem flowed logically and had a nice rhythm to it. My favorite line was the last one in the first stanza. I liked the rhyming, especially the in-line rhymes, and felt that they added to the nice feel of reading your poem. I didn't notice any spelling or grammatical mistakes (or mistakes of any kind) in your "Some Caring for Karen" poem . I wondered if you'd written this poem for a challenge or contest here, and if you did, which one? I also wondered if you'd shared this poem with Karen? I hope so. I think it would be a great blessing to her. I thought the friendship genre you selected for this poem was an appropriate match for it.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 three 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 thumbnail image made me think that this was going to be a poem about a cat, and maybe Karen was a cat. So I'd recommend (unless you want to give that impression?) that you just make the image you have above the poem also the thumbnail image. Easy peasy, if you choose to do it and still have the file. If you don't still have the file, any human friendship image would work just fine. I'm a total cat lover, so I might just be biased here though, feel free to take that into consideration when reading this suggestion.  I'd recommend choosing two more genres, so you have a total of three, as we are allowed three, and people do search by genre here. Perhaps "relationship," "biographical," "personal," or "experience might be nice options to consider? There's a drop down list, as you know, because you had to use it to select "friendship." I don't have it memorized; those are just some suggestions. The actual list will probably be more helpful. And if you don’t believe me on the importance of genres, 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's always nice for me as a reader to have the form and line count listed below the poem, perhaps in a "notes" section. I don't know how long it took me to start doing that, but once I did, readers responded favorably. So I'd recommend adding that information beneath your poem.As with any review, please take what serves you and release or ignore what doesn't. CONCLUSION:  I enjoyed reading your "Some Caring for Karen" poem, 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 during your anniversary month, and always! PWheeler   A SuperPower Reviewers Choice review!  Positive Hearts  A Review from: "Positive Hearts Reviews Group"  The B.E.A.R. Fund   My review has been submitted for consideration in "Good Deeds Get CASH!" .
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