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 | Roses  [E] Beautiful and thorny, these are great flowers.  |
| (5.0)  HAPPY WDC ACCOUNT ANNIVERSARY FROM "Anniversary Reviews"  Hello, Angel bunny Easter eggs galore, aka dragonfish! INITIAL IMPRESSION / OVERVIEW:  I enjoyed reading your "Roses" poem every time I read it, including today. Your writing kept me riveted and I read straight through to the end. Congratulations to you on completing eight whole years of the Contest Challenge! "The Contest Challenge" MORE DETAILED FEEDBACK:  Happy Writing.Com Anniversary month! I read this "Roses" poem of yours sometime in the past and enjoyed it, but didn't have time to review it right then, so I flagged it for an anniversary review (meaning I saved the link to it in a special "April" file.  ). I hope you enjoy this review as a celebration of your time here and find the review uplifting and encouraging. It is meant to be honest and respectful, in accordance with WDC guidelines. I don't remember how I originally found your poem, but today was a great day to reread it. Our roses started from bare root stock (maybe they originally started from seed though... that's what rose hips are, right?), but other than that reading your poem was like reading a little poetic story about my rose garden, or even my Mom's or Grandmother's rose garden. One of my favorite things about the roses is how they attract butterflies and bees so I was happy that you covered that in your poem. I thought the free verse form worked well with the message of your poem about roses. My favorite line was the "during the day and night its aroma rises" line. Lovely! I liked the alliteration too. As one of just nine people on this site to have completed eight years of Jody's Contest Challenge, you are part of an elite group of achievers! I hope you own that and that it helps you feel like you can accomplish anything.  I wondered if this poem was written for any particular contest or challenge here? I didn't notice any spelling or grammatical mistakes (or mistakes of any kind) in your "Roses" poem. I thought the home / garden, and environmental genres you selected for this poem were appropriate matches for it. I liked that you have already received four reviews averaging five stars for this lovely poem. My review will make the fifth, and I will also award it five stars. It was a pleasure to read and brought back some happy memories.IDEAS TO MAKE YOUR PIECE STRONGER: In the spirit of helpfulness, and because of the requirements of a new reviewing challenge I joined recently, I have some little suggestions to make your piece stronger. If you're interested in some constructive criticism, read on. But if you aren't, no worries. Just know that I enjoyed your piece and move on to the next section. Still reading? You're brave! Yay for you!   We are allowed three genres, and people do search by genre here. Perhaps "nature," "personal," or "experience" might be nice options to consider? There's a drop down list, as you know, because you had to use it to select your other two genres. I don't have it memorized; those are just some suggestions. The actual list will probably be more helpful. Just to show it's not only me who recommends this, moderator Schnujo's Giving Away GPs  shared on the news feed in a comment on 2/21/2025 that “SM has told me, himself, that the #1 way people search for things to read on WdC is through the genre search, so if you aren't filling out all 3 genres, you are literally missing out on readers.” [On the very slim chance that you don't already know this, SM is our StoryMaster here, and definitely in the know.] If you want to see the note and scroll down to see her whole comment, here’s the link: "Note: View this Note". It's always nice for me as a reader to have the poetry form and line count listed below the poem, perhaps in a "notes" section. I don't know how long it took me to start doing that, but once I did, readers responded favorably. So I'd recommend adding that information beneath your poem. It might help you get more future readers if you added a thumbnail picture to your story, if your membership level allows that. Pictures are attention getting and could help your story stand out in a list of search results. Rose pictures might be especially alluring, and as you specifically mentioned red roses in your poem, I would recommend featuring a red rose. If you haven't already done so, I encourage you to enter this poem in the Shadows and Light Poetry Contest run by Rachel, aka choconut, username purplesunday. It only takes free verse poetry and I think your line count is within the limits. It encourages the hosts of contests to have more entries and I think she still needs more to award all prizes. The closing for this round might be in a few days, but a new one will start shortly thereafter. She tends to judge quickly. As with any review, please take what serves you and release or ignore what doesn't. CONCLUSION:  I enjoyed reading your "Roses" poem, and your combination of a poetic and scientific take on the beauty and usefulness of rose plants and flowers. Thank you for sharing your time, creativity, heart, experiences, and writing with the Writing.Com community! Once again, happy anniversary month! I hope the year ahead is filled with blessings and joy for you!May love, joy and peace be yours in abundance, and may the Lord bless you and all that you do, during your anniversary month, and always! PWheeler   A SuperPower Reviewers Choice review!   Positive Hearts  A Review from: "Positive Hearts Reviews Group"  The B.E.A.R. Fund  ROAR   A Review to Congratulate You on Completing 8 Years of the Contest Challenge!: "The Contest Challenge"   My review has been submitted for consideration in "Good Deeds Get CASH!" .
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You responded to this review 04/11/2025 @ 10:54pm EDT