I didn't make that distinction, you did.

Yes, that's what she is saying, and no doubt appreciates your encouraging 10.

And just how do you reconcile a 10 vote with a comment like that?

Have you no empathy for the femininely challenged?

Oh, I hate these confusions. Would you please just be forthright. You spelled it due, so there must be something I owe you.

The death penalty would provide Disneyland with greater realism, a more life-like experience. And failure to flush is a good place to start. It's a more serious offense than say, riding a bicycle in a bike lane while a mother with her pre-school child turns right without looking.

Far fetched, but some women like that sentimental stuff.

It is not how I expected I would behave. Thanks.

I'm glad you see the distinction.

Thanks, but sometimes it’s best to just move on.

Silence is not aloofness.

est = End of Stammerous Testing

It's a matter of preference, more than of quality. Follow through is taking an idea along with a poem as the poem progresses and working the idea into something else or something better or even something wrong. Take Dan Garcia-Black’s recent posting, for example. It lacks the rhythm and prose of yours, but it follows through.

The meaning-prose trade-off is difficult. If we are too vague in image and metaphor, meaning is lost to readers who don’t get it; if too direct, we are accused of simplistic babble. This poem is close to a good balance, but too far to the prose side for my preference.

It’s a good poem.

“she” in the last line is ambiguous. It could mean either the daughter or the mother. If it means the daughter than the line is trite. If it means the mother than the daughter knows the mother knows. “creep into the uterus” doesn’t quite work with the next line: “And talk about love, and cry.” I often give an 8 or below when I don’t understand a poem. This one deserves a 2.

Please, at least point out the grammar and spelling.