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Comment from Treischel
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Wow! Your alliteration was alluring and awesome. I LOVED it! Seriously, it seared my senses. The mono-rhyming was marvelous. Go go girl! Great job!

 Comment Written 20-Nov-2014

reply by the author on 21-Nov-2014
    Gosh, Tom, what a lovely review! Thank you so very much, my friend. I loved your alliteration too! Thank you also for the shiny 6 stars, you are wonderful!! :) Sandra xsx
Comment from ronnie k
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Well this poem and reviewer says you are GREAT! please keep those " Every time I try it sounds absurd" coming they are music too my ears, love ya, ronniek

 Comment Written 20-Nov-2014

reply by the author on 20-Nov-2014
    LOL, Ronnie, thank you so very much! I am still practicing, but I doubt I'll ever be one of those helpful reviewers,:( I love it that you enjoyed this poem, I had a real giggle writing it. Thanks big time for the 6 shiny stars! xsx Sandra
Comment from LIJ Red
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My right as a reviewer to be wretchedly wrong, angry and anxious and animosity prone, is indicted by ignorance,
illiteracy and ire-that'll save. Excellent quatrains.

 Comment Written 19-Nov-2014

reply by the author on 20-Nov-2014
    Love It!! LOL, what a fun and wonderful review, LIJ Red, thank you so much! :) Sandra xsx
Comment from Smoothiecool
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your chosen words allow the reader to see and feel your thoughts on reviewers comments

good visual imagery to portray this

good AA/BB rhyme through out not forced

good alliteration ...Yes

good use "P" "N" "L" "S" consonance

flows well easy read

cheers Smoothiecool


 Comment Written 19-Nov-2014

reply by the author on 19-Nov-2014
    Thank you so much, Faye! Just practicing my alliterations! LOL, now to practice the assonance and consonance! Then all the dots and dashes...is there any end to this learning lark?? Thanks again my friend. :) xsx Sandra
reply by Smoothiecool on 19-Nov-2014
    you have said it all there
    yes I'm still getting my head around a lot of this poetry formatting

    yes one has to LOL or go insane !!!!

    most welcome my friend
    have a blessed day..SC >> Faye xx
Comment from Pullmanspb
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Your use of alliteration, at the beginning, was so subtle, and believable, that it took me about into the second stanza before I realized what you were doing. Translation: it felt natural and not contrived and forced.

Steven

 Comment Written 18-Nov-2014

reply by the author on 19-Nov-2014
    Thank you so much, Steven, for your lovely review, I'm really pleased you enjoyed it. :) Sandra.
Comment from TAB_that's me
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I think you have definitely mastered alliteration. You even threw in rhyme and proximate rhyme as well. Yep, on to assonance and consonance!
Teresa

 Comment Written 18-Nov-2014

reply by the author on 18-Nov-2014
    Consonance???? Oh, now I have to get the dictionary out again! LOL, thank you so much, Teresa, for your wonderful review, I'm so glad you liked my poem. Assonance coming soon! :) Sandra xsx
Comment from Antoine Charlemaine
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Assonance? Fiddlesticks. This is brilliant! I thought I was into Dr Seuss again: 'As their pens then pepper paper pleasantly, And literal links are littered languidly,
While connecting conversations candidly.'

Nothing absurd about this, Sandra. Very clever. I am in awe of your ability!!!

Anthony

 Comment Written 18-Nov-2014

reply by the author on 18-Nov-2014
    Awww, thank you so very much, Anthony! That is so nice of you, what a lovely compliment. I'm really pleased you enjoyed it. :) Sandra. xsx
Comment from Winslow
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Dear Sandra,

Thanks tons today for fashioning fabulous lines lined lineally and affixed accurately. A nerd you are not. (LOL)

Warm regards,

Winslow

 Comment Written 18-Nov-2014

reply by the author on 18-Nov-2014
    Thank you so much, Winslow! Loved your 'lines lined lineally' missed that one! I am watching out for everyone's alliteration, now, LOL. Now onto the 'assonance'! Thank you again, my friend. xsx Sandra
Comment from Curly Girly
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You pose a question... Have I just mastered alliteration?
Well, which version do you want to hear?...
1. This was a great, fun read and I enjoyed the humour in its truth.
2.No, I don't think you've quite got it nailed yet.
You decide.
And, hey, you're too pretty to be a nerd; so you are right there... no one can say you're a nerd. 'Cos you're not.

 Comment Written 18-Nov-2014

reply by the author on 18-Nov-2014
    LOL, Sheila, I think I am a long way off nailing all the ins and outs of reviewing, the more I try, the more I think I'll just tell them what I like about the work I read. Too pretty????? LOL, I'm an old wrinkled woman! At least that's what my mirror tells me! But thank you sooooo much for the lovely compliment!
    Thank you for the lovely review my friend!! :) Sandra
reply by Curly Girly on 18-Nov-2014
    Well, at least you think when you write your reviews. I find the people who say:
    Nice flow of words, pretty good...
    Are all so annoying! If something is wrong - they should spit it out and say so. Then we will know that they have read the work, and it gives us an opportunity to improve.
    Cheers
    Nicole (not Sheila!)
    LOL!
reply by the author on 18-Nov-2014
    Where on earth did I get Sheila from??? Told you my brain leaks!! Sorry, Nicole. And I do agree with you about the reviewing. I can sometimes tell who a review is from without looking, they write the same things every time. :( It is as if they haven't even read it. xx
reply by Curly Girly on 18-Nov-2014
    Agreed. I think some don't read - they just collect the points.
reply by the author on 18-Nov-2014
    That's what I think. xx
Comment from Nosha17
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Hi, Sandra, reminded me of peter piper picked a peck of pickled pepper- another tongue twister. Good use of alliterative language and rhyming. Hope your Saturday stint went off well. I had a phone call from another publisher today, they are putting me into an anthology for ten best poets, so had to find ten more poems on top of the ones I already have earmarked for my other book(s). Not enough time to write on top of all the reviewing etc. Most enjoyable as always. Fayex

 Comment Written 18-Nov-2014

reply by the author on 18-Nov-2014
    WOW!!! Congratulations, Faye!! That is brilliant, I am so happy for you. Yes, mine went off really well, the Managers, (3 of them) liked my book and have kept copies of all of them to send to their main office, so fingers crossed! The kids were wonderful! Please let me know how you get on and when this book comes out. Where do you send your poems to? I've had some published in a few magazines, but that's about all with my poems.
    Anyway, thank you for the lovely review, and I am really so pleased for you. :) Sandra
reply by Nosha17 on 18-Nov-2014
    Thank you for your kind congrats, Sandra. There are a couple of different publishers I found on line and they mainly deal with poetry I think. I am still in the throes of getting them all ready. I am so glad the store has taken your books to look at, it sounds very promising. Bye, for now, Fayex