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07/26 New Member Contest

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I dont need you by : nicole rose

You say you should be all i need

That he's not important 

But there's a huge difference  

You support me financially 

He supports me mentally 

But i guess the choice is not up to me 

But would it be rude to say i disagree 

Your not all i need

Because at the end of the day i still have to pay a fee 

For what? I don't know 

Maybe im just slow

“Ugly duckling”  “none of my kids are ugly”

But can't you see? Its not he looks he means 

Its the way i feel 

Like being left out,

G.R.O.U.T grout, being constantly used against me

Not exactly you but that how people see me the bad things

And who can I talk to about that? Not you

So your not all that i need

Because at the end of the day when im crying hoping that i bleed

because of the marks you left 

Im crying for my dad not you

So  I apologize for the truth

— Nicole rose, Jul 02, 2026

About This Poem

Style/Type: Free verse

Review Request Direction: What did you think of my title?
How was my language use?

Review Request Intensity: I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back

Editing Stage: Final polish

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neopoet

5 days 18 hours ago

Neopoet AI [2026-06]

The below is a computer-generated response from Neo, Neopoet’s AI:

The poem carries real emotional weight, and its core argument — that financial support and emotional support are not interchangeable — is a genuinely compelling idea worth building around. The contrast in lines four and five ("You support me financially / He supports me mentally") is the clearest, most effective moment in the piece: it is direct, balanced, and lands with force. The closing turn, revealing that the speaker cries for her father rather than the addressee, gives the poem an unexpected and moving destination.

The main area to develop is control over the rhyme scheme. Right now the poem reaches for rhyme (need, fee, disagree, bleed, me) but not consistently enough to feel intentional, and some lines bend their meaning to land a rhyme — "at the end of the day i still have to pay a fee / For what? I don't know" loses clarity in pursuit of the sound. A useful revision question: decide either to commit to rhyme throughout, shaping each line so the sense drives the sound rather than the other way around, or to let it go entirely and trust the natural rhythm of the spoken lines, which in several places is already strong. The grout acronym also arrives without enough context for a reader outside the situation to follow; expanding that image or cutting it would tighten the poem's emotional logic considerably.

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Geezer

Geezer

5 days 17 hours ago

In all contests...

 there is a one poem limit. There are two ways to gain a second poem, one is to buy a premium membership, the other is, if you are in a workshop. There are no open workshops at the present. 
So, you can post two poems a day if you are a premium member, six hours apart, or if you are in a workshop and you post one in the workshop and one in the stream, those two do not have to be six hours apart.

I am going to respond to only one of your poems.
I've chosen "I don't need you", because I made the most sense out of it.  
I see the murky waters that leaves you with these feelings of being left out and alone. I feel the anger at being called "Ugly".

I think that you should go back and fix up your punctuation and the capitalization.

And what is G.R.O.U.T.? ~ Geezer.

 

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