Comments : Obscurity is my Light Switch, Love is my Crucifix

  • 16 years ago

    by Kaila

    This was the best I've read of your poems! The flow was good! You had great discriptions and emotions. And for me the flow was right on and it was so easy to go through and understand. I got drawn into this poem by the title it was really intrigueing
    5/5

  • 16 years ago

    by xTheEcstasyOfSuicidex

    As I glance at the poem, I notice there are no punctuation marks. And I can tell you write now, I'll comment on where to put them.. Because punctuation makes great flow. Everything will be in [] marks.. Punctuation wise.

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    "...Burnt away[.]"

    "...Hair unkept[,]
    I have begun to decay[.]"

    "My books in hand[,]
    Keeping the secret hidden[,]
    I wish to scream my love[,]
    But my love is divinely forbidden[.]"
    "The seared leaves fall[,]
    From a tree that once stood high[.]
    I don't mind at all[--]
    I just sit and silently cry[.]"
    ^^^
    Here, "cry" and "high" are a very cliche rhyme. It usually takes away from the poem in that sense. Just a tip.

    "Old, tattered clothes
    To hide the stories I've left on my chest[,]
    Tattoos of what I've lost
    Include my faded family crest[.]"
    ^^^
    Your weakest stanza; it has no emotion, no grab to it, no meaning.

    "My fingernails have grown out[,]
    I don't know how long I've sat here[.]
    My hair is down to my shoulders[,]
    It must have been many a year[.]"
    ^^^
    Again, it's weak and doesn't make much sense to the title.. None of this poem seems to be. =/.

    "So I sit under this burning tree
    Patiently waiting
    For someone to help me[--]
    My soul is fading[.] "

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    Now. I said I'd be honest.
    The only thing I liked about this entire piece is its title. It's a grand title [where do you come up with them?] but the poem lacks flow, style, emotion, and everything a poem is meant to be.
    I didn't get the meaning because you didn't explain it well enough. It's like you just wrote whatever fit the rhymes, and that's a bad thing to do.
    Your titles have potential, but your writing could use work.

    Forgive me that's so rough...
    xTheEcstasyofSuicidex. 4.5