The world may bleed,
You write, I read.

Thanks for the vote. I returned the favor.

Good luck!

Content:
 

   very powerful write ppoem is strong moving write its sad have lived in many bad areas great reading of care


     good luck god bless mnike

Publish!

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Imagery:
You have most certainly handled your business in your poems.  The cop poem was the absolute BOMB!!! The imagery was slamming and I am going to vote for you for sure.  Handle your business lil mama!!!

Nice work!

publish!

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these are very good, well done and good luck

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You have a wonderful feel for this please continue  I look forward to seeing more. Voted.  Have a look at mine if you have the time

Very talented young lady!!!!

Wow. Quite a talent for one so young. You have my vote. If you get a chance to check out my submission, "Destini's Trifecta", I'd appreciate it! Good luck!

Voted...Good Luck... favorite = African Queen. Shah. X

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Have my vote. Ty

You've got a potent voice and a wild flow that often successfully transcends logic:  a serious compliment.  But your spelling ('should of' for 'should have', etc.) and some unclear bits in your flow make me feel that from time to time it gets control of you - and while poetry can REPRESENT the sense of being out of control, it needs to be very much under the POET'S control.
I'm concerned that I'll sound like the voice of White Power Holding The Black Experience Down, but the reality is that you've got something that could be taken seriously in seriously literate circles... provided you learn the rules a little better.  As they say, learn the rules before you break tehm.  It's told of Picasso that before he began inventing abstract art almost single-handed, he could draw a fly so real that you'd try and swat it on the paper.
Grow your talent and discipline it.  It's impressive.

African Queen and Power Over Me are terrific!

Well done!

Loved the first poem, so beautifully and eloquently written. Tragic circumstance so full of love and smacking of a surreal ness found in Fairy tales.   Can’t fault it.

Hated the topic of the second poem - only because I see this kind of thing from (it seems, anyway) every black poet in this competition.   I didn’t want to finish it.  

You are obviously very talented and I wish you could be original with your content and not stuck on this kind of thing.  I’m not debating or belittling the subject matter, but I find it predictable. This kind of thing is everywhere - not just in poetry - and has been for a very very long time.  It would have been nice for you to use your culture perhaps in a more positive more beautiful way - appeal to a broader range and it would also be nice if your blog … which is very good … had a bit  of racial diversity in it too and thereby live up to what its name is” See Further Than I Am.

I fully related to Power Over Me, and I thought this, as the first one, very worthy; articulately subtle and a great contender for inclusion in the book.

I wish you great luck in the competition, I can see from this and your website that you are an artist … but please just broaden your horizons and stay away from cliché.  Well done and thanks for your comments on mine.


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You got a yes from me! I loved how your topics are unusual and unique! Great use of word choice and imagery. I love them.

Tee hee, these are some of the best I'VE seen!

~Kate

Nice selection and range of poems.  You have my vote.

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There are many instances of great imagery in every one of your works, but you focus, sometimes, too much on this.  Imagery is something that has to be weighed against a flowing stream of well placed thoughts that a reader can grasp.  When you can accomplish this, you will be well on your way to perfection in your work.  Keep writing and best of luck!

amazing poems!  i hope you can get them published!

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publish!!!

if you want to find mine:

http://www.webook.com/project/Voodoo-Hearts-My-3-Poems-for-entry-Webook-2009poetryVOTE

thank you.

Great job!!!!

Well done. I almost voted no because you're team Cullen, but I pushed past my predjudice. :) I  enjoyed your poems immensly.

Great job, keep writing

African Queen is terrific.  Good luck, and keep writing.

Good luck !

I did not know you had it in ya, good luck!

awesome, girl you have my vote

Three very good poems - a yes vote.
Best wishes,
Mike.

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