i thought both were pretty good....i like how the first poet personified death"His brush will penetrate you,A knife straight through your heart,it's poison will plague your footsteps,A seductive work of art."uh! i can actually feel this!"Her acid tears will burn you,Her knives will slash your skin,Her crimson blood will stain you,Empowering you to grant others eternal sin"deadly! (no pun intended)the second poet's imagery with lines like the following were ill:"when friendship morphed and flesh meshed into one mold""..travel back thru my historyof mystic fruit hanging from shea treesthis is a strange sort of humility"this is just too sick!"...visions of african lilacsswaying and bending in elysian breezescan somehow overwhelmthe potion of deathyou gave me"WOWin conclusion, i'm a huge fan of personification, but when metaphoric images grip me, they often take me further outVOTE: Poet 2http://www.soundclick.com/bands/9/lifthalegend_music.htm"u wanna play ball or u wanna fight?" -- ray brown in the gym