poemranker ::Replying

ReplyTo a comment on Meltdown by longships.

ecargo3 Mar 2006

Don't let the rhymes drive the poem (send iron and steel to boil is a good example--awkward and wordy, just because you wrote to the rhyme). Watch for over-familiar terms like "wreak havoc"--generally, if use a term you later realize you've read elsewhere a gazillion times , change it. How does something flow "gracelessly"?

Good topic, but could use more moodiness.