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Cold Sandwiches & Soups [Menu]

bean soup
biscuit bread
chicken noodles
salami head
cheese whole
turkey roll
cracked wheat
stacked honey meat
spinach leaves
lettuce strings
tomato rings
pickle slices
marinated spices
mustard dip
mayonnaise lips
quarter tips
Swedish fish
strawberry licorice
luncheonette
cabaret

what will you have
soda coffee or tea

just water please.

Review Request (Intensity): 
I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back
Review Request (Direction): 
What did you think of my title?
How was my language use?
What did you think of the rhythm or pattern or pacing?
How does this theme appeal to you?
How was the beginning/ending of the poem?
Is the internal logic consistent?
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It's all about the RHYME. Thank you fellow poet for your feedback. #poetrynation

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This is just my opinion, so it only matters if it moves you and pls remember this is a workshop so we all hear from each other about the good bad and ugly

So I liked the first one and I like the second one and now Im feelin so what because
I like it ;
like a
booble
a bobble
a trinket
a wobble

or

skull on a stick
black candle wick
draining her soul
cant let go

Dragool drinks deep
legends red teethed
burial chamber
prayers bequeathed

its all blood day
dark kisses bite
his ghastly bride
waiting for night

etc etc etc
Rhyme is a device, its fun, but its obvious appeal and absence of gravitas makes it tedious as a prime mode of poetic expression I did the very same when I first started writing poems so I understand Try something else; don't worry about being a star. Poetry at its best is the evocation of the power of language, of culture, the world soul, and the deepest of human experience

Discover yourself ...Don't be afraid and bring it!!!
Ill leave you with a poem by Plath

The Applicant By Sylvia Plath
First, are you our sort of a person?
Do you wear
A glass eye, false teeth or a crutch,
A brace or a hook,
Rubber breasts or a rubber crotch,

Stitches to show something's missing? No, no? Then
How can we give you a thing?
Stop crying.
Open your hand.
Empty? Empty. Here is a hand

To fill it and willing
To bring teacups and roll away headaches
And do whatever you tell it.
Will you marry it?
It is guaranteed

To thumb shut your eyes at the end
And dissolve of sorrow.
We make new stock from the salt.
I notice you are stark naked.
How about this suit——

Black and stiff, but not a bad fit.
Will you marry it?
It is waterproof, shatterproof, proof
Against fire and bombs through the roof.
Believe me, they'll bury you in it.

Now your head, excuse me, is empty.
I have the ticket for that.
Come here, sweetie, out of the closet.
Well, what do you think of that?
Naked as paper to start

But in twenty-five years she'll be silver,
In fifty, gold.
A living doll, everywhere you look.
It can sew, it can cook,
It can talk, talk, talk.

It works, there is nothing wrong with it.
You have a hole, it's a poultice.
You have an eye, it's an image.
My boy, it's your last resort.
Will you marry it, marry it, marry it.

Best Z

Thank you very very much teacher. You've given me the ok to let go n be true to thyself.

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Nubian Queen of the Mother Plains.
Diamonds, pearls and perfume drapes
your darkness. Such glamour.
Wit skin like warm chocolate, drizzle love's
effusion.
Create a stream of fresh nugget & vanilla.

Vanilla you possess so effortlessly.
Unearth the scent of lavender.
Let the aroma infiltrate loneliness.

Oh, Nubian Princess, crowned with the finest
gold tiara, you sparkle. Dazzle the hurt and
crying souls wit things so true to you.
Your portrait paints red roses of radiance.
Oh, my sweet Nubian Queen, you reign supreme.

IS THIS POEM SOMETHING THAT COULD SPARK THE AMATEUR IN ME? THANKS

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Your adorable :) Such a fast transition ...Does your question imply this is not your poem but an inspiration to you written by another; or are you being coy? haahaahaa
Well whether it is yours or not I will comment this way The poem makes me feel like this piece is a talented adolescent and cute show off poem that doesnt quite know what shes dealing with yet, so ill attempt to deconstruct a bit

Nubian Queen of the Mother Plains.
Diamonds, pearls and perfume drapes
your darkness. Such glamour.
Wit skin like warm chocolate, drizzle love's
effusion.
Create a stream of fresh nugget & vanilla.

So there's much here I really like but I'm wondering, are you hungry for candy? ;)
In other words the poem works the same metaphoric territory throughout Its all ice cream cherries, apple pie, waffles sprinkles; Its light fare like Disney or I think some the words that comes to mind are decorative, ingratiating, gilded, ornamental, There are many who would like this because its fun So what I may share with you is what we shall say is more personal in terms of my own taste. A poem needs a bit of an edge to be authentic in my opinion It is not a Ziegfeld Follies or Baskin Robbins By edge I mean paradox, ambiguity, human dimension the outer life vs the inner life ie all that you really are at least in some fashion
How much that is deeply evocative can you find in the power of your own language through being direct, metaphor and eloquence We are speaking of potency

"Show me how ruin makes a home
out of  hip bones. O mother,"
Ocean Vuong

Ask your self what that takes and are you willing to explore it?
A poet I greatly admire told me if a poem doesnt cost you anything what really is it worth?

I'm very flattered. The work is very much authentic, mines. If there wouldn't be a problem please check some of my work on website ....allpoetry.com Dpoetessrock/Roxane Dorsey. I have about 394 poems. If its ok to indulge in another poetry site. Thanks

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with Zebra about letting go and finding yourself. I mainly stick with rhyme, but occasionally I break out with some free style and let fly! I also have become unafraid to soar with different topics and find myself just having fun. I like what you have done with the "lists" but feel like you have the talent to become much better than that. Look around and steal from any or everybody here. No plagiarism, but you know what I mean, if you find someone doing something that you would like to try, go right ahead and jump right in. ~ Geezer.
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There is value to commenting and critique, tell us how you feel about our work.
This must be the place, 'cause there ain't no place like this place anywhere near this place.

I respect and accept all that you guys have to offer. I cant quite put my finger on my best work yet.

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I will study other poets. Thanks

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I think that's part of our process, and it's good to relax and just enjoy word play. I'm sure many of the poems in the canon began that way. I thought the poem was a fast enjoyable read, and light verse.
Some of our poems can be just sketches or watercolors of a flower, not "The Scream" or the faces of Egan Schiller.
The only thing I would suggest is definitely drop the last line. The poem works much better ending
"just water please" In the "please" is contained in the thank you, and the attitude fit in better.

Otherwise I like the poem, and enjoy what is presented on the level its offered.

Eumolpus
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
ee cummings

said it better "Big E".

There is value to commenting and critique, tell us how you feel about our work.
This must be the place, 'cause there ain't no place like this place anywhere near this place.

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