Sweet

I find this rather mysterious but effective

Great sounding last stanza

An ode to Eminem? Pithy.

Very nice and Classic,lenore!

The last stanza is a bit obscure, i don't quite get the progression from what's gone before. But the central stanza is excellent

George Orwell would have been proud of this. Very good indeed.

I don't know, this seems to lack your usual focus. I would never guess from the poem itself that it's about your father and 'he blame' is curiously unspecific. The last stanza is great though, what a pulse!

I love 'The City of Dreadful Night' - this picks up the tone nicely and also describes the poor man's tortured life. A lot of your work refers to other poets, is this part of a deliberate project?

The green fairy is another name for absinthe - given your poem about wormwood, are yout trying to reveal an addiction to absinthe?! Which is an excellent escape from Priests and rings.

The more I read this the better it becomes. It takes a while for the situation to become clear to muddle-headed dimwit like myself, but it soon breaks out pretty powerfully. Yep.

I liked this until the last line - I think 'fences ' is there because it rhymes with 'senses', not because it expresses best your meaning. But I like the whole existential/erotic combination. Monsieur Camus would be proud.

Let the poor bastard go! I know how it feels. Horrible! Effective poem though.

[thumbsup] Good job. Glad you finally got in buddy.

And wormwood is the stuff in absinthe that makes the brain a little fried. Interesting development on that Blok quotation.

You are very good at unforced rhymes and I like the feeling this poem gives of images opening up from each other.

very elegiac. 'bird beshitten' is fantastic.

9/10

Nice!7

This is very good. The images especially in the first stanza are vivid and full of guts.