Reviews for continental divide

Reviews For: continental divide

lackluster 2006-08-30 ch 1,	nice summary :) i think this may be one my favorite poems by you.
fontanellemonster 2006-08-14 ch 1,	aw, thats beautifully written, and so romantic in its yearning-ness...its lovely. i love the first two lines as well...very poignant (can think of no other words to describe it..)
Renss 2006-08-12 ch 1,	There is one thing I particularly liked about this poem--bits and pieces of it really encouraged me to use my own imagination. I don't read other people's reviews of work before I write my own, so I have no idea if that's just me or a universal thing. In particular, "disbelief between my fingers" made me thing about the gooey, stringy, strange things that float in the ocean (which is what's between continents, I found out a little while ago) and the sticky, strange feelings ocean water and its inhabitants can give you. Anyways, I was drawing a connection between growing disbelief and the less-pleasurable parts you find out about firsthand in the beautiful, sparkling ocean. So as you can see, this poem made me do an awful lot more thinking than just processing what was written down. Only one stanza sort of fell flat with me, which was "meet me arms open / or heart screeching..." I felt like there was a very definite thought here, but just not a very effective way to get it across. To put it another way, the thought is better than the wording assigned to it. To put it another way, you have to get around the wording to enjoy the thought. Still, I like this poem and your work. I hope to see more of your work here.
simpleplan13 2006-07-23 ch 1,	i like this piece.. the meet me when you see why i couldnt forigive is awesome... well done
Gilee7 2006-07-22 ch 1,	I'm glad to see that you're no longer suffering from the dreaded writer's block. You've clearly overcome it quite well with this poem. [-the poignance of your words / is drying out from overuse-] I run the risk of pasting every line of this poem because every line is five-star. Anyways, I like these first two lines here, and I believe they're very true. It's kinda like "I love you"-- those three words mean so much and are so powerful the first time you mutter them to someone, but after saying it every day for several months, they no longer contain any real power; it's just kinda like "yeah, I know, you told me yesterday." [I march these pathways of forgetting / but cannot lose / the echo / of my step.] Great, great lines. Stanza 2 is probably my favorite. The imagery is incredible. [I join you in my dreams; / you are not surprised to see me.] LOL. This second line makes me smile every time. In a sense it's like the poignancy overuse in the first two lines of the poem. The dream meeting is no longer as powerful as it should be because it's become an every night event. [meet me because I'm afraid.] Great one-liner; very powerful. [I believe in love / but bear my growing dread / that maybe / love doesn't matter anymore.] This stanza, along with the ending lines, is very poignant (to return to the beginning). A very excellent poem, beti. Very powerful, very poignant, very sad, even. It reminds me of some of your other recent poems, which contained a similar emotion about that all so important "you" character. Every time I go a few weeks without reading any of your work, I'm always amazed and astounded when I finally read one of your poems. You're so unbelievably talented. Write on.
Moondog Dozier 2006-07-13 ch 1,	The second to last stanza is wonderfully well phrased. The entire work gives off the atmosphere of seperation-distance so accurately. Excellent work.
cornered.sensations 2006-07-08 ch 1,	This was wonderfully written, I love this mystical reverie that you created, don't we all wish we were there for eternity? 'this yawning vista of improbability', great work.
Talyth 2006-07-08 ch 1,	This is very powerful and dreamlike. I love how the imagery is interesting and intense but also abstract enough that the reader can determine their experience of the poem. Nice work :) -Devon
Super Shayde 2006-07-08 ch 1,	Very fluid; I love the phrase "disbelief between my fingers". Your poems always have the most perfect endings...

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