Comments : Defenseless Against the Rain

  • 15 years ago

    by Teria

    I really, really like this poem. I do suggest making the lines shorter, they're so long that they're carrying into another line, creating an odd structured poem in the area available. On top of that the long lines didn't give me time to breathe while reading alloud. You can easily take the lines and make them shorter without changing any of the words, which are well written by the way. In return you'll get a much better flow and a nicely structured poem.

    Here's a suggest for two of the lines, you can take that and do as you please with the rest. If you please to do anything.

    "Rain comes down together, and yet their song is full of a loneliness so overwhelming it frightens even the gods.
    They cry out in desperation heard many a times by a broken soul like me,
    but never once by someone of importance."
    - I will say that in the poem above the lines are separated almost where they need to be, but not quite. You need to separate them yourself to get it right. Here's the change I came up with;

    [Rain comes down together and yet their song is full of loneliness,
    so overwhelming it frightens even the Gods.
    They cry out in desperation heard many a times,
    by a broke soul like me, never once by someone of importance.]
    - Do notice though that there are changes word-wise made to the few lines. That is NOT because of the shortening but because of what I thought sounded better. The rest of the poem is well written. A few spots I thought could use a little pick me up (or down) but you can figure that out in your own time if you'd like to.

    As for a title, I think the only thing that stuck out to me (not the only thing, but the one that did most of all) was "Defenseless against the rain"

    That line was amazing, by the way. Loved it. Captured the entire poem. Made the entire poem.