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More interested in the content of what you write than the style. Theological, political, historical, scientific, or experiential, or indeed anything that paints a vision of the future. A good grammar checker will tell you about spelling and commas.
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Not entirely sure as I like most stuff. I prefer something with a soul rather than purely secular. But I like Sci-Fi, anything Christian, and also 'What-if' type speculations with plausible plots.
Least Favorite Genres
Anything that fails to look for a way out of the darkness. You can be dark, just don't wallow in it. Generally, I try to steer clear of Fantasy, and most Dark or Horror stories just make me laugh or grimace due to their ignorance of the dark side.
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I have really liked some of the heartwarming dramas I have read here particularly personal stories. Thought-provoking poems or stories are cool also though I am no expert on poetical forms.
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Anything that is just an affirmation of the dark side. I hate empty words. I always look for human intelligence. I try and avoid Fantasy and Horror where there is no metaphorical resonance or connection with real-world truth.
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I mainly review at random and just see what grabs my attention. I will usually skip stuff I do not like unless it gets me riled or if it is interesting for other reasons.
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Review of Apples or Onions  
Review by LightinMind
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Rated: ASR | (5.0)
Received this via random review and was touched.

Reader Experience

Jigina is a hard working Christian Indian girl with a caring family where everybody gets involved with helping out. She is doing well in college and in sports and she has friends are there for her when she needs them. But while cutting the apples she suddenly worries that she has made too many romantic mistakes and that she will end up an Old Maid because of them. She cries and her father comforts her, hugging her and reminding her of what a fantastic person she is

Commentary

As with a lot of what you write this was very moving, tugging all the right emotional heart strings. You cannot help but love this warm, sensitive, lovable , successful character Jigina. My family were India a long time and I am thankful for this family spirit they carried back with them to England when they left which is still with us. In many ways Western culture is quite cold by comparison. You communicate the warmth and the work of family very well.

Thanks for sharing.


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Review by LightinMind
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Rated: 13+ | (3.5)
Received this via random review and was willing to face up to the challenge of your words

Reader Experience

The author dismisses all previous attempts to reveal the gods to ourselves. He regards the hand-holds of organised religion to be stifling and obscuring the search for true nature of divinity. He sees insights into what the gods might look like in science, multicultural psychology, abnormal psychology and mythology. The best congregation would be a collection of people curious about exploring the unknown.


Commentary

I have no idea what personal experiences may have informed this reaction against organised religion but since 90% of people would probably disagree with what you wrote here thought I would accept your challenge. As a former Religious Education Teacher I had to teach each of the 6 major religions and inspire the same curiosity about them among the children I taught. It would be rather ignorant to dismiss the insights that can be derived from such religious studies and there are a plentiful number of atheists on religious studies or even theology degrees for this reason. It is true that some pastors and religious leaders have insisted on their own interpretations and abused the power of their office. Personally I would not wish to live in a world ruled by Sharia law where limbs and eyes etc were hacked out for various offences. I find the narratives of all the major religions bar 2, Christianity and Judaism, completely unconvincing having studied them exhaustively. So in many ways I am probably now more skeptical than the author on these.

There is a proof that God exists in the life and person of Jesus Christ in human history. He is Gods proof of his existence and statement about his character. The church that has grown to include a third of the population of the world today witnesses to that person and what he has revealed about God. He fulfilled prophecies made before he came, he performed witnessed miracles that caused even his enemies to call him a magic worker, he spoke words that resonate down the ages and have the same power today as then, he rose from the dead. What more could be done to demonstrate God in human history?

Regarding the methods you choose to try and find truth. Most of these are out of scope when it comes to religious investigation. Science can neither prove or disprove the existence of God nor tell us much about his character. Psychology and Abnormal Psychology while very interested has many schools of its own and its conclusions are various, contested and alto often highly subjective. Add in the multicultural dimension and your end result is a various confused bunch of people with no clear answers to anything.

Anyway that is my 2 cents on what you wrote. Thanks for sharing.


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Review by LightinMind
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Rated: E | (4.5)
Received this via random review and was impressed. I seem to be lucky today and am getting some good poetry.

Reader Experience

This is one of those paint it all black poems that really cannot see any reason for cheerfulness

Commentary

The author gives a health warning in his description. Definitely not a poem for people on the edge or suffering with depression and it could well be triggering. That said it was very well done albeit completely colored by the determination to see everything in a negative light. In practice even this broken world gives glimpses of heaven through the cracks of lives dismantled by pain, insensitivity, blindness,selfishness, hate and angry brutality. If I heard this poem read by someone, think they would have go full Gothic and cry a river before reading. But must admit I might laugh if they did and then become the subject of their next poem.

Some of the rhyming was a little liberal but overall really good, thanks for sharing



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Review of Broken Crayons  
Review by LightinMind
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Rated: ASR | (5.0)
Received this by random review and was deeply impressed.

Reader Experience

The author describes an empty house that once was filled with children making messes, drawing things, playing games and singing songs. Now there is a feeling of desolation and even the nights never seem to quite make it daytime. This appears to be the consequence of another's choice.

Commentary

Sorry this is one of those "Oh Wow" reviews but at least you get 5 stars. I cannot find anything critical to say about it. It provokes all sorts of questions about the whys and wherefores that lie beyond the scope of the poem itself. Why are the kids gone now as a result of another persons choice?

These 2 lines were awesome

I'm lost, a vagabond in haunted hallways,
held back from hearing their sweet voices.

Whispers of wishes and waterfalls cascade
only in my lullaby's soft slumbering serenade.

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Review by LightinMind
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Rated: ASR | (4.5)
Received this via random review and though it is dated 2003 it is still an enjoyable read.

Reader Experience

A nightmare vision of what cats do when their "masters" are away hunting. Goldfish and Easter Bunny beware!

Commentary

I was a little confused about what the invasion was. If it was meant to end the "masters" then why did they do it when they were away. The E.B was killed by the attack but the invasion is then described as having failed even though the E.B. is dead and the Goldfish eaten.

There were two minor errors in the text:

lo and behold not low and behold - the lo abbreviates from look.

It is waiver not waver.

Thanks for an enjoyable read, I shall be keeping this one away from cat lest she get any ideas of own.


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Review by LightinMind
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Rated: E | (4.5)
Received this via random review and stayed because it was good.

Reader Experience

Cesar won't trade the last Baseball card the boy needed to complete his Boston Red Sox Baseball set. While the boy planned a grand theft from a Hulk lunchbox he ran into a City possum that scared the beejeebees out of him and had him running all the way back to school.

Commentary

I thought Opossums were nocturnal and there is no description of disturbing this one.

Liked the story and the shock ending was well done.


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Review by LightinMind
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Rated: 13+ | (5.0)
Received this via random review and found it fascinating

Reader Experience

The author describes the year 2000 as a seminal year in his life. It was the year he came of age, got to vote in the nail biting, chad counting, Bush - Gore election of 2000, went to Hawaii on holiday, started on a path of local learning that would result in meeting his wife and then a move to California, had High School Prom and wrote the obituary of a classmate.


Commentary

This was really interesting from start to finish and provokes the question which year the reader regards as their own seminal year. The sections were a good way to separate the material into these anecdotal snippets. There is nothing to criticize here, it was an enjoyable read.

Thanks for sharing all those years ago.



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Review of Winter  
Review by LightinMind
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Rated: E | (4.5)
Received this via random review and stayed because I did not know what a nonet was.

Reader Experience

The poem describes the dawn to night of a snowy Winters day.

Commentary

Using the title as one of the nine lines is cheating. Loved the poem, which succinctly summed up a nice Winters day though our cat tends to go for cuddles rather sit at our feet. I also liked the slow retreat of words and syllables over the course of the day towards sleep.

Thanks for sharing


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Review of Beyond Time  
Review by LightinMind
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Rated: 13+ | (4.5)
Received this via random review and stayed because it was a very intelligent piece of work.

Reader Experience

A Descartian take on the growth of Divine self awareness leading to a Big Bang creation event based on loneliness and a craving for intimacy with another being. The configuration of stars and planets culminates in the creation of earth, man and woman and so now God is not alone.

Commentary

This was highly intelligent and based on a loose marriage of Descartes "Cogito Ergo Sum", the Christian creation story and a subscription to Big Bang theory. The theology here is highly questionable as God lacks something and therefore creates to make up His deficiency. He is lonely and makes a friend he can talk to. There is no Trinitarian awareness here which would answer the issues of God craving intimacy with the eternal dance of the three persons of the Trinity. The days of forming and filling of Genesis 1 are reformulated into the patterns of modern Physics and God works inside these speculative parameters. Time is born before creation in this account, but even that is speculative, what is God time? what is creation time? are they the same?

I loved this, it made me think, it is highly controversial and I would say deeply flawed in its content, but nonetheless stimulating also. Thanks for sharing.

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Review by LightinMind
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Rated: E | (3.0)
Received this via random review and I liked the space theme.

Reader Experience

Space Kid comes to earth, is a little bored until he paints a beautiful picture


Commentary

Is there one Space Kid or many. You used the singular and the plural interchangeably and so this was a little confusing. Was it a he or a they?

There are some things to correct here in order to improve the text:

Title: Bordom = Boredom

They knew that they wouldn't able to do stuff like that on Earth = They knew that they wouldn't be able to do stuff like that on Earth

which kind of surprised Space. = which kind of surprised Space Kid

let's see what their is to do here = let's see what there is to do here

Why did Space Kid have to have a brain freeze during the act of creativity which created that superb picture? Being an artist compared to being someone who enjoys watching gladiator fights to the death or gluttonous eating competitions seemed a bit of a jump.

The plot here still needs some work. Thanks for sharing.


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Review of Thank You, Father  
Review by LightinMind
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Rated: E | (4.5)
Received this via random review and found it inspiring

Reader Experience
Upbeat and positive. I also am a morning person. A poem/prayer full of light and God connection

Commentary

You kept the structure, it was upbeat and positive and had a good focus. Loved it! Was not sure about this line: I forge the soul’s bright key,

Key for what?

Thanks for sharing all those years ago. Some stuff lasts and it does not matter when a person reads it. Other stuff dates rapidly and wears out quickly. This was something that lasts.

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Review by LightinMind
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Rated: E | (4.0)
Received via random review and stayed for the desert theme.

Reader Experience

Picture of annihilation, desolation and nothingness

Commentary

Did someone wake up with a hangover on New Years Morning? The picture is of a lifeless desert where the wind blows the sands away into the dead zones of bleak desolate nothingness. Where the dead rot, wither and crumble into the sands, without witness or remembrance. Even time loses its shape and is swallowed up into the sands of eternity.

Why are the sands graceful when the picture is so desolate, is oblivion welcome?

Got a sort of Ecclesiastes vibe off this one. "All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind"

Anyway as a I said well timed to coincide with a great many New Years Day hangovers.

Thanks for sharing


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Review of Beginning  
Review by LightinMind
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Rated: E | (3.5)
Received this via random review and stayed for its take on creation

Reader Experience

A black canvas is splattered with vomit and blood and God uses these to paint creation


Commentary

The range of necessary colors is missing with just these two resources. The power of stars is lacking in this expose. Bloodless sea creatures and reptiles and insects have no source. Pure fresh water cannot rise from these. Rich clays are not penetrated by worms here. The canvas is at least 4D not just 2D. The universe does not stink of vomit, it either does not smell at all or it smells like life, like plants growing, it smells like garden herbs and trees, a woman sweating and a child's morning breath. Not vomit! 99.999% of the universe is devoid of life so not blood either.

This one does not work for me, but thanks for sharing.

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Review of I.C.U.  
Review by LightinMind
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Rated: 13+ | (4.5)
Received this via random review and though an oldie it seemed really topical.

Reader Experience
For me this summoned up the image of someone in an ICU in a comma or unconscious on a ventilator being visited by a concerned relative or friend.

Commentary

ICU could mean 'Intensive Care Unit' or 'I C you'. But bringing the two meanings together like this is quite clever and fits someone visiting such a place to be with someone on one of their machines. As I write many ICUs are stretched to maximum capacity by the influx of covid19 patients. But we are not allowed to sit besides those who may live or die nor hold their hands. These people are alone, and they will live or die alone, and we have experiences of both kinds of outcome. Those who died faced their Maker alone and without friends to ease those last difficult moments. This poem reminded me of how terrible the current Pandemic has been for those people alone and frightened on the brink of death and how different from our normal experience this time of passing has become.

I found one small mistake:

or what lays halfway in between. = lies or lay

Thanks for your poem.


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Review by LightinMind
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Rated: E | (3.5)
Received this via random review and found it interesting enough to stay

Reader Experience
Captain Marcono is summoned to see the King. A First Lieutenant she knows is sent to bring her. Not knowing the reason for the summons she is nervous and the news is unexpected.

Commentary
The story itself works I think and is interesting. But there were a lot of scribal errors in this text which would need correcting to improve it.

She stood up form her seat = She stood up from her seat

After that, you’ll never know what awaits for you. = waits for you.

the king is not one to be held late = the king is not one to be kept waiting

as he addressed her by her first time = as he addressed her by her first name

Her first name changes from Herana to Hernia in the story

She had already pried all she could to find something out,= She had already asked him about what was going on,

Both her and the lieutenant salutes = Both her and the lieutenant saluted

Thanks for sharing and for an enjoyable story line.


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Review by LightinMind
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Rated: 13+ | (4.5)
Received this via random review and liked the theme

Reader Experience

The lover is right next to the beloved but whispers their feelings, frustrations and prayers for fearing of waking them. Despite the physical nearness there is an emotional distance the lover wishes to cross.

Commentary

Distances between those who lie right besides us can be the hardest to cross. The pain of that was well expressed here. The hunger for intimacy frustrated and blocked by unspecified issues and fears is all too clear. You kept the rhythm and the bd rhyming scheme through the poem. I liked the poem which was well done, but it lacked something, some kind of magic. Sorry that is so unspecific, just my reaction.

Thanks for sharing.

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Review by LightinMind
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Rated: 18+ | (5.0)
Received this via random review and was impressed by your vocabulary

Reader Experience

This is a very eloquent and hilarious account of a Halloween prank on an old man which backfires on the pranksters.

Commentary

I had to look up half these words to check their meaning. Some of them I had to think about like "catawampus" sneaks diagonally positioned. Others seemed a loose fit like "pumpernickles"(loaves of bread!) But the way you combined them and used them made me think who cares, it worked. Also if he kicked the doggy dung so hard that it flew over their heads would the bag not have exploded when his foot hit the bag. Still justice was done and the pranksters got their due so I prefer your outcome.

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Review of THE FALL  
Review by LightinMind
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Rated: E | (4.0)
Received this via random review and found it amusing

Reader Experience

Having spent a wonderful Sunday together Him and her are chatting. He is trying to pour out his love to her and she is falling into a tragic brooding state that spells the end of their connection.

Commentary

Sometimes words and dialog do not tell the whole story. She starts by saying how much she enjoyed their Sunday together. Then he decides to reference her habit for brooding deep dark thoughts. He does this in the middle of a romantic effort to woo her. Unfortunately his words merely trigger this brooding and she plunges into it.

This was both funny and deeply sad to me. It showed her complete disillusionment with their connection maybe with all connections. The man as portrayed here seems alright, making every effort to please her, but she is determined to fall into her own inner toxic darkness and portray him as a predatory monster hunting her in the shadows. She has somehow convinced herself that every relationship will ultimately fail and that might be true because she is the one that sabotages them.

The following need some attention:
1) Check Him and Her line separation. On occasions the structure is broken
2) no flood can quench my thrust for you = thirst for you
3) take you to there world = take you to their world
4) you feel relived cause = you feel relieved because
5) your head scream and your impulses beg = your head screams

Thanks for an entertaining read.

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Review of Badger  
Review by LightinMind
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Rated: ASR | (5.0)
Received this via random review and stayed because it was hilarious

Reader Experience
Danny and Cindy head out to play by the Creek. Their mother warns them,as always about badgers and rattlers. They have no idea what a badger is. As they pass skinny Josiah McGriffs place they remember how he chased them away with a pitchfork for stealing apples. He had since gotten engaged to a 250 pound woman called Pearl. As they pass his place they hear a commotion. Pearl storms out of the barn and the kids mishear what she said. They spend the day hiding in a tree from the Badger. When they make it home Josiah is there bawling his eyes out. Mother calls him a bachelor and they wonder which is worse badgers or bachelors.

Commentary

It is a very funny story, well written and shows how kids often fill in the gaps in the partial danger stories offered to them by parents. All part of the process of learning and growing up. Words can turn small badgers into bears and a broken hearted man, unlucky in love into a monster with a pitchfork.


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Review of Abuse  
Review by LightinMind
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Rated: 18+ | (4.5)
Received this by random review and was jolted into review mode by the baseball bat.

Reader Experience
The Grandfather did something to Lisa his grand daughter. The father, his son kills him with a baseball bat. The Grandfather's last comment reveals a rotten character and lack of grace.

Commentary
A dark story pregnant with shadows. Clearly something bad has happened to a little girl. Judgment is swift and final and possibly deserved. We do not hear what happened but are intrigued to find out, we do not know if the Grandfathers denials were genuine but we suspect they were not. The call to responsibility seems irrelevant since the fathers intention is to kill his father, the reference to God's name implies a residual feel for him at least in the case of the father. Patricide, abuse and deceit all wrapped in one dark tale.

Not sure if I should thank you for this as it is kind of dark, but you definitely got me thinking.


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Review of How Sweet It Is  
Review by LightinMind
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Rated: E | (4.5)
Received this via random review and stayed because I liked the theme

Reader Experience

Are we here just to collect gift points and trophies, the author thinks not and suggests that we place our victories in the perspective of a full life with God. We have gifts we should use them but we should be able to bear our ups and downs and keep a positive outlook.

Commentary

I liked this simple poem with its ab cd rhyming scheme. It contains the wisdom of getting things in perspective without compromising on the zeal for excellence. The language is not spectacular or hypnotic but is enough to make the point.

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Review by LightinMind
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Rated: E | (4.5)
Received this via random review and was intrigued by the two images.

Reader Experience

On the one hand we have a man-made tower thrusting from the earth, as an arrogant statement of permanence and then on the other a softer, impermanent, colorful rainbow bridge from him to her.

Commentary

The first stanza had all the arrogance and idolatry of the Tower of Babel. This represented the pride and self sufficiency of a godless mankind looking to defy even the judgments of its Creator and to stand forever in its own strength. It is also a very macho image thrusting forcefully up.

The second stanza used more feminine language and contained the image of a rainbow, traditionally a promise of the suspension of judgment and in this case a bridge of love from him to her. So are we missing the stanza that the rainbow leads to, the beloved at the end of the rainbow. If she is the sky then I guess she permanently surrounds and embraces him but this is not made clear and if so why would she need a rainbow to connect them? Or is the man too happy with standing tall and erect , proud of himself and fixed in the ground, unable to cross the bridge. Is he even aware of the skies existence?

The two stanzas offer two different visions, maybe two different genders but do not really fit together as rainbow bridges do not connect the towers to the sky and the tower is too fixed to cross them. No tower is permanent even with a promise of no more deluges. Babel was broken when its fake unity was broken by the confusion of languages. The rainbow bridge's impermanence suggests that the tower only has a small window of opportunity here and more likely than not will blow it.

This line seems wrong:

Man made Towers high
Thrusting forcefully up the earth

Surely the tower thrusts up from the earth or upon the earth.

Anyway it is a provocative set of images, thanks for sharing

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Review of Closed Track  
Review by LightinMind
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Rated: ASR | (4.5)
Received this via random review and was intrigued by connection between racing and tornadoes.

Reader Experience

A rather surreal dream of a race around the inside of a tornado followed by a radio broadcast of the Daytona 500 being suspended due to Tornado warnings.

Commentary

Must admit did not believe the key concept here that tornadoes actually occur in Daytona Florida. But then when I researched it found that they did indeed. So the dream sounds like one of those spooky moments when a truth is anticipated before it happens. But the significance of the woman racer snarling and overtaking is not explained.

Interesting piece thanks

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Review of Peace on Earth  
Review by LightinMind
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Rated: ASR | (4.5)
Received this via random review and stayed because who does not want peace.

Reader Experience
The three stanzas describe three perspectives on peace. The first the hope and dream for peace expressed in carols. The second describes the current reality of war and conflict as birth pangs of the new age. The Third describe the grounds of peace and the reason why we can trust the promise of it as being the arrival of the Prince of Peace Himself.


Commentary

Luke 2:14
Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.

The Second Coming brings peace only to those who are waiting for him in faith. For the rest it is the end of history and the beginning of eternal restlessness. There were John Lennon "Imagine" Universalist overtones to this poem envisaging peace as a gift for all rather than just for those on whom his favor rests.

I liked the poem which is clearly informed by scripture but found it more prosaic than poetical

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Review by LightinMind
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Rated: 13+ | (4.0)
Received this chapter by random review and so have not read the other chapters. This is a stand alone review of this chapter.

Reader Experience

The author describes a schizoid superwoman who is both Liz,a human with normal social connections and a goddess called Mega Woman who has immense powers and big muscles. The military, who have managed to irradiate Mega woman in a way that allows tracking were monitoring her flying in circles around the planet at great speed. Having recently received worship in some service Mega Woman's power have increased again but she is a little at a loss as to what to do now. She needed someone to talk to and it seems that Tom was a friend of Liz. He was watching the world discuss her new powers on TV when he was summoned by her. Mega woman discusses her new powers and her desire to stay as she is rather than transform back into normal Liz.


Commentary

Mega woman seems quite an immature goddess and sees humans as foot servants. But she needed Tom to talk to. She is far more powerful than he is and apparently her mental powers have also grown but she needs him to guide her? Must admit no idea where a goddess should go for counselling. She has major dilemmas to resolve. A sort of Dr Jeykll, My Hyde type double personality debating with herself as to which identity she prefers or is she a female version of the Incredible Hulk with brains when muscular. One can see why the military might be worried this woman clearly has no idea what to do with the powers she has received. Tom suggests she uses them for good. Not sure how an 8 foot tall goddess is going to blow off steam with a mere human male without ripping him in half though. He gets nose bleeds when she talks to him after all.

You might want to correct the following in the script here:

a voice soon filed his head = a voice soon filled his head

Her muscles, which defined description, had looked like an explosion of power had gone on inside of them, pushing her tanned skin to the limits as her immense and other worldly muscles had grown = Her muscles, which defied description, looked like an explosion of power had gone on inside of them. As her immense and other worldly muscles had grown, this had pushed her tanned skin to the limits.

It wasn’t her muscles either, she was taller = It wasn’t just her muscles either, she was taller

And your brain us still small to understand it = And your brain is too small to understand it

can there be no stronger link between a Goddess and her, her subjects? = can there be a stronger link between a Goddess and her, her subjects?

No. Ad good to know this silliness between us is through= No, and good to know this silliness between us is through

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