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Thank you for the critiques/advice everybody. I will get to work on a redraft.

This is the first poem I have ever written (aside from my year 6 homework). I hope you enjoy and please critique away. The ticks of time There's never enough time. With each swing of the pendulum life ticks on. The seasons pass, stripping the trees of colour, leaving them destitute. Days fall into m...

I like this a-lot, it has a Nietzsche-esque appeal to it. That sense of willingly facing hardships and over coming them. I think reader pre-conceptions will have a big impact on what he/she takes away from this, particularly the last part about retaining the final pea. The last hurdle is always the ...

Antcliff wrote:Greetings, Ciaran

Thanks for the introduction and greeting. Welcome to PG.

Not read any Orwell in years...the last time was A Homage to Catalonia.

Seth

Hello Seth,

Thank you for the warm welcome. Looking forward to reading your work.

Ciaran

Hello Ciaran, and thank you for introducing yourself formally (and also, I see, for reading the forum guidelines as well). It's what we prefer, it helps to oil the running of the place, and it's fairly infrequent nowadays. So you are a welcome throwback. Heck, you're welcome anyway. Who - if I may ...

Hello all, I'm new to poetry, I love to read but have never tried putting pen to paper myself, after a recent flash of inspiration I've decided to give it a go. I am 21, English and in full time education. I study Marine Biology/Zoology at Bangor University (or Prifysgol Bangor if you siarad Cymraeg...