BLACK

by Rocky   Feb 26, 2007


This is no tragedy of little tears
My heart is still
Cold & black
There is no beat
In its blood
There is no heat
Nor sacred fire
Within my veins to sing
My heart is dead
But still...
within her name repeats
My silent prayer
As love should call to love
Though now!
there is no quickening
No flood
Nor fount that flows
not even a single tear
Left to shed
Upon this dead rose
As the deathly spring
Of my thoughts
Comes singly
Dry
Contemptuous
Too cold
even for hate
All i can say
Is that they come
From some dead sphere
Without me
They have come
To pound these hollow beats
Withing this empty drum
That echoes the pain
Of what is done

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  • 14 years ago

    by mossgirl19

    Nice rhymes...nice message.5/5

  • 16 years ago

    by Robert

    You have alot of descriptions in this poem that are good, but then I have to say in some parts it loses what the original merssage is about. Not saying it is good but I think if youcut down just a tad bit the reader may walk away with a better idea of what you are trying to convey. Plot121

  • 16 years ago

    by Startle Me

    I really don't like your format.
    It's as if as though you don't know what you're doing.. so you just space it at almost every word.

    Look for a more structured format.
    I think that'd help :]

    The good thing about your format is that...
    It made it sound really, well, poetic.

    I can actually see this being read in a poetry club.

    Your punctuation needs work.
    For example:

    My heart is still[[.]]
    You don't need a period there.

    All in all.
    It was alright.
    It wasn't exactly the best I've read.
    Wasn't exactly the worst.
    The only thing that brought your rating down for me was that...
    There was nothing that caught my eye.
    There was no mystery in it.

    It's just... well.
    A lot of whining to me.
    Sorry.
    4/5?
    Darn.
    You've got a straight 5.
    I guess I won't vote.

  • 16 years ago

    by ellewen

    Wow. I think that was amazing. I seemed to have gotten your rhythm just right. I was overly impressed. It is something I feel as though I can understand and enjoy. I read what you had said your poetry in your profile. People on this site are constantly downing poems because they arent organized into stanzas of because they have "forced rhyme", and so I fell under it striving to fit the needs of other peoples stanzas in my own poems. I like how you still do your own thing. This poem was fantastic. Your vocabulary usage and descriptions are mainly what got me hooked. And that constant beat I somehow follow. My favorite part of it was
    "Nor fount that flows
    no tear drops
    Upon this black rose"
    I am not sure what else to say. This is a great poem though. Any time you need a comment, leave a long and honest comment for me and I will do the same in return. Thank you

    God bless

    ~skittles

  • 16 years ago

    by ellewen

    Wow. I think that was amazing. I seemed to have gotten your rhythm just right. I was overly impressed. It is something I feel as though I can understand and enjoy. I read what you had said your poetry in your profile. People on this site are constantly downing poems because they arent organized into stanzas of because they have "forced rhyme", and so I fell under it striving to fit the needs of other peoples stanzas in my own poems. I like how you still do your own thing. This poem was fantastic. Your vocabulary usage and descriptions are mainly what got me hooked. And that constant beat I somehow follow. My favorite part of it was
    "Nor fount that flows
    no tear drops
    Upon this black rose"
    I am not sure what else to say. This is a great poem though. Any time you need a comment, leave a long and honest comment for me and I will do the same in return. Thank you

    God bless

    ~skittles