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Hurt

Living

4 total reviews 
Comment from Gypsy Blue Rose
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Excellent entry for the Cinquain Tanka contest. Your syllables count is right and the connection between lines is right too. The imagery is outstanding. Great job!

 Comment Written 03-May-2022

reply by the author on 04-May-2022
    Thank you for your wonderful review.
Comment from RodG
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You pack a lot of narrative only five short lines.
First you SET THE SCENE clearly, showing a single flower surviving somewhere in the city. Then you introduce TONE with such words as "angry" and "radiates beauty" (good contrast). And finally CONFLICT with the last two lines. We wonder who crushed the flower and why. Very nicely done.

 Comment Written 03-May-2022

reply by the author on 03-May-2022
    Thank you so very much for your encouraging review.
reply by RodG on 03-May-2022
    You are very welcome.
Comment from Regina Elliott
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A sad beauty. Never heard of
a cinquain tanka until yesterday. This is a good
contender for the contest.
My very best wishes for the
contest. Blessings to you. ~

 Comment Written 03-May-2022

reply by the author on 03-May-2022
    It is the first time for me too, your review means a great deal, thank you.
Comment from GARY MACLEAN
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I always look for those renegade flowers that force their way up through the cracks in the sidewalk. They are a very welcome sight to an otherwise dreary landscape. You have captured that vision well in the few words afforded this style of poem.

 Comment Written 03-May-2022

reply by the author on 03-May-2022
    Thank you for your wonderful review.