To: Jen

From: Heather

“My Yesterday” touches me in a personal way because it reminds me of feelings I once had for someone and I felt the exact same way you express in this poem. I found it moderately difficult to not have him in my life, and that feelings is captured in your words almost exactly as I would have expressed it myself. Well done. “Eyes Closed” is shorter than the other poem, but another one I like because I feel it is something I can relate to. The closing line “Life is easier with your eyes closed” reminds me of something I have read or heard in a song. This poem is one I can play in my head like a movie, envisioning a character or person suffering this torment and anguish only to say as the closing line of the movie, “Life is easier with your eyes closed.”

Recommendations: Both poems are short, which works as a quick and to the point poem, but they both could be elongated and more details could be added to make them more effective expressions of feeling.