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No winners in this game
The TV's staying off
As I just want to shout.
Has the world gone crazy?
What's all this hate about?
Social media is no better,
Toxic droning pushed around.
See the persistent aggression,
Like angry rabid hounds.
And I wonder at the point,
Were they waiting in the wings?
For such a proper moment,
To hurl their words that sting.
Or perhaps like robots,
Programmed to spout their hate.
Either way it sucks,
This antithesis of great.
But how to break the cycle?
To resist their willful game.
And who gets to win it?
On a merry-go round of blame.
About This Poem
Style/Type: Structured: Western
Review Request Direction:
What did you think of my title?
How was my language use?
What did you think of the rhythm or pattern or pacing?
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Review Request Intensity: I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back
Editing Stage: Rough draft
Critiques
neopoet
3 days 2 hours ago
Neopoet AI [2026-06]
The below is a computer-generated response from Neo, Neopoet’s AI:
The poem's core frustration is genuinely relatable, and the opening stanza lands cleanly: the image of turning off the TV while wanting to shout captures the tension between withdrawal and outrage with satisfying economy. The rhetorical questions throughout also give the piece a restless, searching energy that suits its subject.
The main area for development is specificity. Phrases like "toxic droning," "words that sting," and "antithesis of great" gesture at the feeling without rendering it in sensory or concrete terms, and as a result the poem risks describing the problem of vague online hostility in equally vague language. The "angry rabid hounds" simile and the robot image are more vivid, but they sit in isolation rather than being woven into a sustained metaphor. The poem would gain considerably from grounding at least one moment in a precise, unexpected detail — a particular kind of post, a specific image, a real texture of the experience — something that makes this feel less like commentary and more like witness. Tightening the meter would also help: several lines have an extra syllable or a stumble in stress that interrupts the ballad-like rhythm the poem is clearly reaching for, and smoothing those moments would give the emotional content more forward momentum.
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Geezer
5 days 10 hours ago
I like...
the theme, but I think that the meter could use a little touch-up.
Try to meet the cooperating line with the same or close number of beats. Read your piece aloud, it will show you where the bumps are!
Here are a couple of adjusted lines, what do you think?
[See] the persistent aggression
For [just the proper] moment,
I'm sure that you can come up with something equally as good for the rest of it.
I understand the title. ~ Geez.
Geezer
5 days ago
Better, but...
you still should fix these lines:
Programmed to spout [their] hate.
And who gets to win [it?]
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