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Review of Dry Food For Dogs  Open in new Window.
Rated: ASR | (4.5)
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Oooooooooooooo... this one stings. Reminds me of jobs I have left and jobs I have stayed in a while. Well-written and not abusive of any particular group, it acknowledges that anyone in any category may leave and never come back. Stories circulate, but the one who left is rarely heard from again.

I didn't really find any typos or grammatical challenges, but I found a lot of interesting analogies between 'the j.o.b.' and being in a locked facility!

Thanks for sharing!
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Rated: ASR | (4.5)
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Folders are the doorways from the Main Entrance to the Wings that hold the different categories of our stuff! Portfolio impact is greatly governed by getting the reader interested.

You have a great sense of humor and a very cute ability to use it. I understand using laughter and sarcasm to combat depression. We have to giggle or we might cry. I appreciate your including these things on your port. They do have a place on WDC, for sure!

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Rated: ASR | (5.0)
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OK, so I was just wandering through the Reviews given today and Scottiegazelle Author IconMail Icon had reviewed your essay and was cracking up.

Now, I have to tell you how difficult this is to give you a 5, for I am a spider lover, too! I think they are marvelous and don't use paper cups or envelopes, just my bare hands to catch them and take them out. They don't have any reason to bite me and I am fascinated by them and just about everything else that moves!

I read your hilarious statement of Arachniphobia to a friend who used to be afraid of spiders. We laughed like crazy!

Thanks for sharing!
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Review of Jabberworky  Open in new Window.
Rated: ASR | (4.0)
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Hee Hee! You did it! You made a silly poignant Jabberwocky poem. And you sent me to the dictionary to see about Jabberwocky. It says it is nonsensical speech or writing from "Jabberwocky" a poem by Lewis Carroll. Well, duh. I just wondered it it would tell me more than that. It has a zillion synonyms to its definition of idle, incessant or unintelligible talk: gibberish and twaddle and chattering; you know, jabberwocky.

I like it, but I find it difficult to critique. However, I think the word newdents is brilliant. We go to school for twelve years and we come home with new dents every day until we are formed into an acceptable shape to pass through the ceremonious exit door wearing a cap and gown.

Yep, I like it.

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Rated: E | (4.5)
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Folders are the doorways from the Main Entrance to the Wings that hold the different categories of our stuff! Portfolio impact is greatly governed by getting the reader interested.

I love it! What a cool Port of Call! It really gives you a chance to show off your stuff at the front door! I have gotten so much positive feedback from this arrangement in my own port!

I absolutely love the Cobalt Blue! Have you read this one?
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Review of THE ONE I MISS  Open in new Window.
Rated: 13+ | (4.0)
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#989394 by ~*~Damiana Returned~*~ Author IconMail Icon


Love is a beautiful thing. Loving an animal with your whole heart always leaves you open to the sorrow that comes when it dies, since you know the chances of the dog outliving you are few. So we love.

This is an excellent little article. I liked how you made it mysterious from the beginning, it could have been anyone you loved. It starts out like you loved a human and when at the end it is revealed that the object of love is canine, it made me smile with the bittersweet smile of one who loves and keeps on loving dogs and cats.

I found no typos or errors. I like it!

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Rated: E | (4.0)
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#989394 by ~*~Damiana Returned~*~ Author IconMail Icon


It's good to read something from you this morning. You have done a very good job of writing this article. It's always amazing how much experience can be packed into so few words.

Your descriptions are packed with words that open up the experience to others! Good job! A lot of these things you will remember your whole life and they will make a difference in how you perceive things. You really did venture into the past with the reenactment; your mind and imagination made the trip.

I like it!
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Rated: E | (4.0)
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#989394 by ~*~Damiana Returned~*~ Author IconMail Icon


This is a good poem for a wilting and dehydrating flower and for a wallflower as well. Wall flowers are people who stay in the chairs by the walls during dances. Left out. Not showered with love.

Your little flower is an amazing metaphor for the lives a lot of us live. We wait for someone to come along and give us some kind of life. When we get a little love and light, we attempt to store it up, not knowing how to produce it ourselves. When we learn how, our lives are changed.

I find no errors in this little piece. I'm sure you could make it different and some of the changes you make might make it better somehow, but I like it.

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Review of Day and Night  Open in new Window.
Rated: E | (4.5)
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Ooooooooooo... I've been there. I lived in the desert in California for a while. When the heat of the summer would hit, the sun was merciless.

...But the amazing part was that life abounded.

I feel that the lack of punctuation gives a strong indication of the thirst and lack of a lot more than that in the dry duned desert.

This reminds me of old westerns and Star Wars ("It's our lot in life to suffer," says C3PO). I appreciate your sharing this with us!

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Rated: E | (4.0)
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#989394 by ~*~Damiana Returned~*~ Author IconMail Icon


This sample of the bittersweet joy of our parents finding youth and health again in the world beyond the veil is comforting. You did a lovely job of conveying your feelings and thoughts.

Funerals are difficult things and we know there will be one for each of us. Many of us know "I'll Fly Away." I'm glad it was a comfort to your mother, I'm sure this belief and poem have been a comfort to you and others as well.

Thanks.

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Rated: 18+ | (4.0)
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#989394 by ~*~Damiana Returned~*~ Author IconMail Icon


What a sad story. Some stories have to be shared, but I wish no one ever had to experience things like this. I appreciate your writing it down to get it out, whether it was your story or not. It makes me unhappy. I know it is someone's story.

You are a good writer. Keep spreading your wings and writing.

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Rated: E | (4.0)
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#989394 by ~*~Damiana Returned~*~ Author IconMail Icon


You have a wonderful ability to express simple things with awe. There is a sweetness in this poem and it is not just the berries! The images are awesome.

*Idea* Ideas (take 'em or leave 'em )*Idea*


It seems a bit scattered, however. The rhymes seem forced when the images don't really match. Since you have the ability to create such great visual stimuli, you can now just play with the lines. Move them around and match up the ones that match in subject matter, rather than rhyme. Then reform the poem. That might not work at all, it just feels like it might to me.

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Unconfined ocean ragged high, and free. Unconfined ocean raged
high and free.

It would be good to read this one aloud to feel and hear where the commas and periods naturally exist.

Good job! Keep it up!

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Review of Horror Story  Open in new Window.
Rated: E | (3.5)
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#989394 by ~*~Damiana Returned~*~ Author IconMail Icon


You have a vivid imagination and this is a good story, but it needs some work. First of all, it needs a title. We have the genre of horror for people to tell what genre it is.

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My idea for a name would be something like 'Alone Again'.

Also, there are a lot of misspellings and lazy sentences in this story. It would probably help to reread it, preferably aloud, and find a way to slow it down and make your points stick.

It is often difficult when you have a story idea to get it written down. The thoughts are traveling so quickly through your mind that you rush to get it on the paper. However, after it is on the paper, it needs work to get it ready for the reader to enjoy reading and feel you have carefully prepared it for them.

You have made a good start here! With a little work this could be a good story.

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Since this piece is so short, I am only going to pull the phrases and correct the word. I usually pull the entire line to the word in question.

it turned scolding hot
scalding
frightened. when frightened. When
noticed the phoneline phone line
Karmen shreeked at the top of her lungs. shrieked
The man plunged down his arms Awkward, plunged is not the right word
Karmen new that knew
Karmen knew that she had to back in Incomplete? It appears you have left out a word
touched Teds neck Ted's

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Rated: E | (4.0)
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Loneliness is one of those universal emotions and you have done a good job of evoking it in my mind and heart. I am with this speaker night after night wishing things were different. Wishing for a perfect love, a lasting love, remembering something that might have been.

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Again, look at using punctuation only when it is necessary. You give a poem the shape you do so that the person will see the hesitancy, feel it, make the stop. You don't have to give them a comma or period at the end of every line.

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Wont give me answers, won't

Thanks for sharing!
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Review of One Regret  Open in new Window.
Rated: E | (4.0)
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Poetry is so personal and so universal. This poem is intriguing to a part of me, but the logical and imaginative parts cannot agree to the meaning of it. This poem seems to be about regret and wishing to go back and right a wrong. It even seems to end with the right being wronged.

However, there is this one stanza that stopped me cold. Now, you will read my typing and see me say very often that making the reader stop and think is good poetry. However, this stanza just confused me (quoted with the last of the preceding stanza to preserve the line of thought).

Let me go back.

So I may use,
My fold and blade,
To give to you,
What I can never again.


I just don't get it, in the context of the last stanza. But that's okay, it's poetry. It feels there is a word or phrase left out of the last line.

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Review of Not Broken  Open in new Window.
Rated: E | (4.5)
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Awesome. This is packed with emotion and the words support a feeling of captivity and then release. I like it.

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*Bullet* One idea I've had a few times in your poetry might be pleasant to try here. Center the words on the paper and see if you like the shape of the poem.

*Bullet* The punctuation makes the reading of this poem ragged. Perhaps you could take it and write it out as prose, take out all the extra punctuation, then rearrange it as before (or differently, if something else works).

*Bullet* Play! Words are our toolbox, but also our toybox. We are the wordcrafters!

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Not yet did I long for it;
I knew not of why they cried.

         This is an awkward phrase.

But my screams of protest,
were only binded to my soul.

         I don't believe binded is the correct word, 'bounden' would have the meaning that the screams of protest don't go very far out, they are adjacent to your soul and probably only heard by you.

Thanks for sharing!
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Review of Unicorn  Open in new Window.
Rated: E | (4.5)
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I love unicorns! I like this poem. You have evoked the imagination again and that is the thing I believe poems are for!

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You think I know not,
Of what you seek?

I think this would read better without the comma or the word of.

But I know,
That you didn't vanish-
Like the wind into space-,
Because you stand there.

Remember that cute little long dash I gave you earlier? You'll need it in places like this, if you decide to use any punctuation at all. Here is my suggestion for this stanza:
'But I know
You didn't vanish
Like wind into space,
because you stand there'
I would keep the spacing, but not put in a period until the end of the poem.

Thanks for sharing!
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Review of A Dragon's Sorrow  Open in new Window.
Rated: 13+ | (4.5)
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Okay, this one leaves me speechless. I am counting out my gps... okay, enough! Thanks for sharing this slice of your inner world with us. It is exceptional and memorable. I love it!

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There are some rough spots, but they are rough spots on a diamond, not rough spots on a bit of polished glass. Read this one through aloud. Discover your magic all over again!

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Leaving an agrimony in its’ stead. its stead

So that even in death, your dreams,
Would remain forever next to my own.

This phrase would have a greater impact without the comma after dreams.

My favorite part


Even if you denied me all over again.
Even if you began to hate me, fear me.
I will know that what you say isn’t true,
Because it isn’t by your voice that I truly hear, it is by the sound of your heart.


Thanks for sharing!
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Rated: E | (4.0)
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Port Raid! Open every folder, plunder every file!

This is probably where it is dawning on you that you have agreed to unleash a monster. I am an avid reviewer, a little like a leech or a bulldog. Or a lot like a privateer who comes into port and lays siege to the place and goes through the houses one by one, subduing anyone or anything that resists, collecting a toll (in this case, something created, designed or collected by you), leaving something (in this case, my signature 53 gps) and going on to the next.

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Hmmmmmmmmm... what new idea do I have for this folder?
Well, for one, I think it's the pits to have the last modified time and date of more than a year ago...
dot dot dot

*Heart* Hee Hee! *Heart*

OK, you win, I can't think of a new thing to say!
Your titles tell me what's in here, but the folder "body" doesn't tell me much about your poetry.
Oh, well! Sailing in to pillage the poetry patch. *Delight*

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Nah... nary a one!

Thanks for sharing!
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Rated: E | (4.0)
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Port Raid! Open every folder, plunder every file!

Very cool to put all your goodies in here, but can we have a hint? What do you like to write about?

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*Smirk*Well, yeah, it has a picture, but it's the same one. Of course, that does tie the site together, *Worry* so who's complaining? Me! *Star* I want more! Where are the SigMarks one for each category? Hee Hee! *Smile*

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Nah, no fun in this category yet! I am perusing the port, though. *Shock* You know, you really should clean up in the aviary. Those hawks and owls have stacked little mouse bones and yuck all over the place!

Thanks for sharing!
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Rated: E | (4.5)
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Thanks so much for your informative and instructive article. It is well-written, sticks to the subject. It tells the whys and wherefores of a good review and what the strengths are. It does not back away from the key weaknesses of bad reviews. I don't think anyone can stress too much that judgement of the material or bitterness and anger in your own life should never affect a review you give.

Thanks for writing and thanks for reminding us that what we do and say affects others to the point that people will simply cease trying or at least quit trying here if we drive them away. This community is so cool and supportive in so many ways!

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Rated: E | (4.5)
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#989394 by ~*~Damiana Returned~*~ Author IconMail Icon


Well, yeah, you hit the high points and the low blows. It is disgusting to realize that my eyes will never be the same and getting up from the floor is almost not worth getting down there for anything! This is very cute and comical and fun and I definitely relate!

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You might want to read it aloud. I did and although I won't say there were huge places, there were a few awkward spots.

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Didn't notice anything blatant as I read to myself and then read it aloud to a friend. You have a great sense of humor, even if the subject matter is really close to home for me!

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Rated: 13+ | (3.5)
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#989394 by ~*~Damiana Returned~*~ Author IconMail Icon


This is a cool story. Sad and poignant, but cool. You did a good job of getting me interested in your characters. Your wizard, a close imitation of the old wizard Gandalf from Lord of the Rings was cool.

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It might be a good thing to give your wizard a different name altogether or spell it the way Tolkien did in his books.

There is a light-heartedness about this story and I think it is because we fantasy people have gotten exposed to wise old wizards such as Gandalf and Dumbledore and will never be the same.

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I was busy reading and finding out what happened next, so I didn't notice any glaring problems with grammar or spelling.

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Review of truth  Open in new Window.
Rated: E | (4.0)
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I just had to look at one more example of your writing. Yeah, I'm an addict. I love to read! Again, this is awesome, but needs some work. The words are filled with emotion and tug at my patriotism and my love of right and justice.

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I would suggest giving it more form and singling out the message you have.

You speak the "word" and down
The corridor of thought is cast
An all-illuminating light;to set
At liberty the fetters or prejudice-


It's actually difficult to find a place to stop, since it is short, but this is an example of what I mean. I'm sure you have plenty to bring to us!

'You speak the word
and down
the corridor of thought
is cast an all-illuminating light;
to set at liberty the fetters of prejudice—'


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At liberty the fetters or prejudice- fetters of prejudice (of course, I may be wrong).

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Review of the river  Open in new Window.
Rated: E | (3.5)
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#989394 by ~*~Damiana Returned~*~ Author IconMail Icon


This poem has some cool images in it. The rocks rumbling made me think we were in for a flood. The lack of punctuation gave me the same impression. So much that I couldn't rein it in after the excitement of the grass to be peaceful and restful.

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So, I would recommend taking a little more time with the story. The fish are jumping. What season is it? Why are they jumping? You don't need to answer those questions in your poem, but you need the answers because you are the story teller. Where is the grass? In the river? Is she out of her banks?

I really like this poem, but it needs more form. Please play with the words and make it tell us about the river. It sounds like a fast playful river, rather than a wide slowly flowing one.

I'm impressed with your emotional impact, when the design factor catches up, your poetry is going to be awesome! Keep it up!

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The river is the place thats really restful. that's

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