Krakatoa Kritic 007

Krakatoa Kritic #007 Let those comment who kill with soft words when they ‘get’ you! Should we hold praise hostage, retreat when we can’t see reciprocal giftings that laud what we write in return? My take’s yours if you like it, still yours if you don’t, but a gift I hope serves you! My joy’s to encourage, not harm. This might be the sole poem I post here (1), that’s fine! Let all praise what we glean, words hearts join with mind’s sinew praise noticed or not as you pass, whistle ‘Dixie,’ fly all flags half-mast! Share your muse though I freeze, melt, or burn: blow my top at poor rhymes, curse free verse! Friend, inhabit your prose, don't let rhythm and rhyme be a bandage that grafts a snake’s tail on a mouse! Sing! Canary in mine! The “One and Only” Krakatoa Kritic #007 (1) By here, I mean on this ‘Krakatoa Kritic #007’ site. I will continue to post poems under my actual name. I will try to respond to all questions about any review. I will not review others' work on request but seek to reward those I see contributing to others' growth, whose poems and whose comments appeal to me. PS: I have published quite a few poems on PoetrySoup now! And I’m grateful to all readers if they comment or not! I think, however, that numbered, anonymous comments that only PS could identify the author of would be a significant improvement to PoetrySoup’s much-appreciated site! Members can already delete any comment that offends them! In this spirit, look for comments from me, ‘Krakatoa Kritic #007,’ on this site, on your poem! All payments/bribes are acceptable but will not get you nothing though I am a gold-medal receiver. A more loving, healthy community is my primary goal. I will post my reviews of all poems on both PoemHunter and PoetrySoup. I hope this will increase your poem's readership, and draw new readers to poets on both sites. Comments might be more efficacious if it was impossible to construe them to be solicitations to read the commenter’s poetry (on both PoemHunter and PS). There is enough false praise in the world. I do not claim to have the ear of God! The poems and comments I offer on this site are my suggestions, hoping to help both sites to become even better servants of poetic expression. InshAllah!