The Shining Star Award

Poetry Results And Winners

Fully judged by MaybeMagical

Winners

Night Maracas
ByBrimwick
Paper Doll
By Chocolettie
Dusk To Dawn
By ar_ya_writes
Feelings
By Ishita_Ray

Book name: STORY OF BROKEN SOUL
Author: @WarriorOfQueen

Grammar: 5.5
Spelling: 10
Originality: 6
Word choice: 6.5
Creativity: 7
Total: 35/50

Review:

First of all, I'd like to apologize beforehand for my harshness. The first thing that I noticed was that the title of the book was grammatically incorrect. However trivial this may seem, but it's the title that draws the attention of readers and this book's title was kind of doing the opposite job. So, I suggest that you edit it. Also, I found grammatical errors all through the book which was off-putting. Next, I'll talk about the spellings. They were impeccable. I didn't find a single wrong spelling in the whole book. A great job on the spelling front. I'm sorry to say that I found the poetry a bit too mainstream and cliché for my liking. The topics the poet chose to write on are pretty common and I expect a lot more from a budding poet who has a great potential. As for the word choice, in a lot of situations, I could think of a word better suited, more fitting, that would enhance the beauty of the poems even more. The poet should try to increase her vocabulary to excel in this front. To be true, when I read this book, I felt that the poet has a creative mind, seeing that I too wrote a bit like her when I began. What's required that she must tap her potential and train herself to let her creativity run loose.
I hope this review was helpful.
Peace out.

Book: Yellow Wishes-poetry
Author: @PastelPops

Grammar: 7/10
Spelling: 9/10
Originality: 8/10
Word Choice: 7/10
Creativity: 7.5/10

Review:

First of all, I'd like to apologise for my harshness, if any, but I suppose that's necessary when you're judging something...So I'll start with the grammar. There were very definite errors in punctuation. And I'm not really talking about the commas and the full stops( which are necessary too but poetic license gives some relaxation). I mean the apostrophes are not required in many places; and yet they are present. This makes it kind of a difficult read, y'know. I advise you to edit them out.The spelling was mostly accurate, but again the apostrophes confuse the reader if the word is misspelt or it's something else.Originality... I suppose up to the point I read, many of the ideas you used were pretty original, though some seemed to be a little cliche.You can really work on your vocabulary to enhance the beauty of your poems. I'd like to point out that in the first stanza of the poem " Save Me", you are asking the person to 'get rid of the painful honesty', but later in the same poem ask him/her to tell you the truth and save you... Don't you think that these conflict?At last, I'm gonna say that you have a really creative mind. If trained properly, your creativity can take you places. So sharpen your skills and keep writing.Peace out.

Book: PAPER DOLLS
Author: chocolettie

Grammar: 9.5/10
Spelling: 10/10
Originality: 8.5/10
Creativity: 9/10
Word Choice: 9/10

Review:

As always, I'd like to apologize beforehand if any of my words seem too harsh. As a matter of fact, I don't think there's much to be said about this book. I found the grammar to be pretty much to the point. The punctuations and the spacing can be worked on, though it's alright this way too. The spellings were accurate to a T. As for originality, I found the book up to the mark because y'know, one can't be a hundred percent original while writing poetry. The word choice was perfect almost all the time and this book was dripping with creativity. This book is like something I'd happily read.