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Rise Again, Rise Again! · Poetry Short Short ·
Organised by Anon Y Mous
Word limit 100–2000
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#1 · 1
· on Stepping to the Stars
Sonnet form, and at first I thought you were writing one without a meter, since the first line doesn't fit a stress pattern, but the rest do, so that opener could stand to be tuned up. Though "separate" will also depend on whether you mean the verb or adjective, and either one can parse there.

I'm stretching a bit for the meaning, but what I get from it is that the speaker is inspired by the scale of the universe to rise above petty things and not give in to hate, which is a nice sentiment.
#2 ·
· on Progress · >>Baal Bunny
I'm not familiar with the poetic form this takes, but it's not a hard structure to figure out, and it adheres well.

This is one of those poems that I could take having several different tones, so it's a really death of the author thing as to which one was intended. On the one hand, I could see it as striving toward progress in a positive way, but a lot of the language feels more aligned with the current political climate of "you'd better agree with us or else," which... yeah, I feel that.
#3 ·
· on Progress
Thanks, >>Pascoite:

The form is called a rondeau--probably the best-known one in English is John McCrae's "In Flanders Fields". I was definitely aiming for the "you'd better or else" with this one, but swapping out some words will help convey that better.

Mike