Welcome to the G-PG-13 Questions and Reviews thread for the Creepy Crawlies Challenge.

This is where you can post questions about the challenge and leave reviews for your favourite poets!

For details of this month's challenge and to post your G-PG-13 entries click here. To post R/NC-17 entries click here and to comment on them click here.

Feef, welcome to the world of poetry! I’m so glad you decided to join us. I really enjoyed reading your poem. The imagery and rhythm was great! I also loved how you included sound for an added special effect (the “faint music”). With your descriptions I could easily imagine everything happening in the poem!

That ending-wow! I didn’t expect that surprise revelation. Somehow, I also feel this is something Sirius might experience. The poor lad.

Great poem!

LuminaBlack, I definitely enjoyed reading your poem about lethifolds too! That was a good choice of magical being to write about. The rhythm of the poem flowed well. It was also very descriptive with such few words!

I’m glad the mysterious wizard won the battle against the lethifold. He had great reason to rejoice, that’s for sure!

Thanks for sharing this fabbity little poem!

I have come to show my support for the great poets and their work. And avoid homework for a while.

Feef, I really liked your poem. It was really well written and had me on the edge of my seat until the end. And what a finish! You have a knack for poetry obviously.

LuminaBlack, I really liked your poem too. Lethifolds are just so terrible. I could really see what was happening in my mind. Lethifolds, like Dementors,are the ultimate nightmare creatures.

Wand, what can I say? You continue to amaze me. This poem is so original and incredible. I loved the last line. I also liked the line " Explaining in monstrous ignorance what they understand the least."

Feef, I like your poem, it was touching; and, well, I really don't know how I'd handle life if I were an orphan. That she sat 'bolt upright' when she realised the truth was quite realistic.

Wand, your poem was so compassionate, I found these lines especially touching:
"Does the writer take the heart as a thing to stab,
As her quill wounds a man’s soul with relentless jabs?"
They're very poignant, and they hold a great truth for writers in the wizarding and the muggle world.

Missy, I really liked that about the Billywigs - it'd be so fun to hover about, if I ever find one I'm gonna get stung! Adding the little line about the gum trees was great, it gives an added context and provides a little more scope about where Billywigs might hang out.

Dragon, you almost managed to convince me that snakes are charming. I appreciate the amount of work the ssssing business was, there's a great deal of that letter used in writing huh? As for the snakes not looking for trouble but trouble finding them, doesn't Harry say that in one of the books? (I can't remember which, it's such a fleeting moment.) A very nice, entertaining poem.

Winky, you made that creature quite horrible, in all his mutterings in the books it never was so. But with lucid and coherent thought, and excellent English, I've come to realise just how serious he is about what he believes. Urgh, he made me shudder. I'm just glad he didn't get Bellatrix as a mistress, he doesn't deserve to be that happy. Horrid house-elf...

Hey everyone! I havent been in here for a while, but the new poems are awesome! I shall comment later when I got more time
I've written a poem on a creature I found in Fantastic Beasts and where to find them, but I can't say this creature is exaclty creepy. It's the Billywig, and I thought it was a nice creature to write a poem about... Is it possible that I post my poem in this challenge?

Go for it, miss_tang. It's creatures a-plenty this month!

Thanks Pen!

Many thanks to Celest and LuminaBlack for reviewing my poem!

Great poem, tangy! That was a very educational poem about billywigs. In fact, you could write your own little poem book on each magical creature.

I liked these lines, because they bring excitement over discovering more about this mysterious creature:

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Could it be? Yes! Introducing the Billywig, An insect native to the 'land down under'.

I also adored the last stanza. It was a nice ending to the poem! In summary, this poem was a joy to read.

Wow! The entries are excellent this month!

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Feef: Whoohoo! Excellent poem It's so wonderfully eerie, and tells the story so well. I really like the twist, it's wonderfully written! It made me want to read it again The rhythm and rhyme is perfect. Well done!

Mina: Ooooh! A great telling of an enjoyable little story! I like your use of language style - it's really effective and fun to read. It's so great to see you back Mina! *huggles*

Wand: *sigh* I love your poems! This one is simply brilliant - the way you've captured the thoughtlessness of the painter and writer - it really shows how society treats and stereotypes the werewolf. *applauds* I love it to bits.

Tangy: Heehee! Great Aussie minds think alike! I wrote about the Billywig too, though mine is in the R section, and it's no where near as good as this one! You've done a great job of telling the reader exactly what the little Billywig is, and the composition of the poem is interesting too! I love all the little aussie references in it too. Fantastic!

Thanks Dragon for your review-I’m glad you liked my poem! Now on to my reviews:

Dragon, your poem was ssssimply ssssuperb! I could really hear that ssssnake talking. The rhyming and rhythm issss ssssuperb, and I loved the descriptionssss you ussssed for thissss generally feared creature. I can imagine that it took a while to write your poem, but it issss very creative!

Wonderful job!

Winky, yet another great poem! I loved the title- such a witty play on words. This poem made me shiver, because Kreahcer’s voice really came out in each stanza. I especially like this stanza:

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Drunk on Halloween, the Black that Dumbledore forgot. You chose the wrong people as your friend. Like those you remember tonight, the mudblood girl and traitor of blood, The Dark Lord will get you all in the end.

Poor Sirius! I can imagine him in a dark room in Grimmauld Place, miserable and desolate as Kreacher waits for his end. I hope you enter these challenges more often.

Fantastic job, everyone!

Okay, I have read the forum, but just to clarify: the creatures don't HAVE to be crawly? It still counts if I do a unicorn or something like that?
Thanks for enduring my dufusness.

OMG, guys! I've just re read all the poems and woaa!

I like how everyone is living up to the 'creepy' factor in this contest! Really dark some of the entries, deep and ikle, too. I couldn't resist to make this spamistic post (redundant yeh :p) to cheer on all the fabbity Immy Poets!

Keep it up!

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the creatures don't HAVE to be crawly? It still counts if I do a unicorn or something like that?

Crawly is optional but remember this from the challenge post:

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featuring a dark creature or symbol

You might have your work cut out convincing us that a unicorn is 'dark'!

The entries so far are amazing, its this darkness that makes my heart thrive, though the non-dark entries are just as fun

so here I go...

Feef: Painted a horrible picture in my mind (excellent), and with the sudden realization cast upon her, I loved it, and your choice of words were fantastic

LuminaBlack: The Lethifold was a perfect creature to write about, I like how you described the attack

Wand: Amazing, Remus was apparent in there, and I seriously got teary eyed when I thought about how they tear apart a creature, forgetting the man inside. It reminds me of when, in the third movie, Sirius was pounding on Remus's chest as he transformed, telling him to remember who he was, the man inside, I am in love with your poem

Tangy: The Billywig was a great thing to write about, I wish that I could flost and hover just for a few moments, though I may stray from the Fizzing Wizzbees next time I see them in Hogsmade

Dragon: I'm going to start off by saying that your disclaimer made me laugh, and the hisses made me feel like it was really a snake, the last line was my favorite, for i could actually sssee the sssnake ssslithering away while saying that, very well written

Winky: Keatcher really isss a horrible creature, ( sorry about the sss I guess I'm still stuck in snake mode from Dragon) I resent him more than ever after reading your peom, excellent...and another great disclaimer

GreenGirl: The Veil really is the worst thing to a sirius lover, a great first peice, don't you love posting poems on here I've posted a few and found it rather addicting

Lara: So true, I especially like this

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They are the people who’re living their life, Not having a clue; that I won’t survive.

Great work everyone, I think they are absolutely superb poems, makes mine look a bit bad...alot bad...oh well

wowzers.

The entries so far really are amazing. All of the poems made me so jittery!
All right, first of,

Feef: This is great! I had this creepy image of this misty graveyard, the words were really well chosen like wealldie_inTheEnd said. It really did create a great image and really took the reader into the poem.

Mina: I got really panicky during your poem- I didn't want to read ahead and see what happened to the poor man, if he survived or not, but I was so happy he did! I loved it how you wrote the poem like it was scene by scene. The sleepy atmosphere, then the great description of the scary Lethifold, the attack! then the rejoicing! I love it! *hugs*

wand: Your poem made me feel so sad but it made me feel angry at the same time because it made remember how misunderstood Remus is by the rest of the wizarding community. All the pain Remus has to go through during a full moon, yet no one sees that. All they see are the sharp teeth, the reputation that all werewolves are monstrous But it was a wonderful poem!

Dragon I'm sure the italic 's's took you a bloody long time to do! but it makes your poem have that extra kick of character. I really like the line:

Dragon wrote:

Though most people can’t ssssee passsst the bite.

It's so true! Ive wanted a bright green snake (the Opheodrys vernalis to be precise) but my parents and my sister ain't too chummy bout the idea. And I think the Opheodrys vernalis is only found in North America. I would like to quote the whole poem because I think it really does sound like you interviewed a snake! Unless... you're a parseltongue? *gasps*

Winky: I had convinced myself to try and feel a wee bit sorry for Kreacher, but your poem did make me get a little mad at Kreacher again. The excellent choice of words made it sound like Kreacher muttering away like he does about what he thought! Great stuff!

Greengirl I think your poem is a great first poem! Before I started to read your poem I had a picture of me standing alone in front of the veil. From the image I got from reading the description Jo wrote in the HP books about the room, it made the "me' standing in front of the veil alone a little scared! I liked the way you set out the poem, to me, it made me feel as if with every flutter, it was like someone speaking, then taking a short breath.

Lara In your notes, when you said "It turned out to be in some way kind of personal…" there were lines I coudl relate to, especially

Lara wrote:

Evil’s inside you, it’s tearing apart, Crawling its way through, but when did it start?

I really liked this line because I feel it many times but I'm not sure when it started and how I'm going to stop it. A 10 of 10 for this piece of magic!

aand.. last but not least...
wealldie_inTheEnd!: I think your poem is just as great as everyone else's poems! With the title you gave to your poem, I didn't really know what to expect... I had a picture of A Beast with an Abnormally Large Head
but it was an odd picture. The description you gave of the monster from your point of view made me brain alter bits and pieces of the monster in my head and when you said

wealldie_inTheEnd wrote:

"I felt my heart drop as it sat, after all it was in my chair But as gruesome as this creature was, I could not break my stare

I was wondering whether the horrible monster was that troll Harry, Ron and Hermione got stuck with in the bathroom in the Philsopher's Stone! When I read the last two lines, I couldnt stop the grin that was spreading across my face.

All these poems really are excellent, and everyone deserves a pat on the back!

Cheers, missy x