Casualty

Well, the first thing I say to everyone that does this: Please use punctuation! It is incredibly off-turning when there is no punctuation. Reading poetry without punctuaton is no different that reading prose without punctuation All the lines tend to blend together You can figure it out where the periods and commas should be but it still stops the reader for a second If I'm just browsing poetry on TeenInk when I'm bored, I'll usually just stop when I see that the writer just skipped puncutatio... (more »)

Another wonderfully written poem! I must say really good, especially since this is a topic that I also feel deeply about. 

I really liked everything you had to say, but one thing stuck out to me: the last two stanzas. You built up the poem perfectly up to then and a part of me feels that you can end the poem without the last two stanzas because the last line of the previous stanza seems to say it all in a simple and concise manner: so let's be wise and avoid demise (I would sugges... (more »)