Comments : Looking for Love in all the Wrong Bedrooms (pt. II)

  • 15 years ago

    by The Prince

    Thought I'd comment your latest since I haven't read your work in a while.

    The first stanza starts off pretty standard I reckon, just because a lot of poems do start with that contemplation state of the narrator. It's really hard to write love poems that don't begin the same as a lot of others so I won't criticise you for that.

    The second stanza was far more interesting, I'm glad you picked up a bit there. Dynamite fingers was a great phrase, and I loved the last line there. It was refreshing to read, haha.

    Third stanza is pretty good too, except that last line is a bit out of place. It's sorta wedged in there. Grammatically it just doesn't sound right, and it sticks out like a sore thumb cause everything surrounding it is nice.

    Fourth stanza was perhaps the strongest, nothing to comment on there except I really enjoyed it, 'gasoline insides' was great. The whole poem is dotted with nice little phrases like that:

    'Started the rains, turned the tides,
    I'm Noah with half an ark.'

    Was worth quoting cause I thought it was excellent. Strong image there. It also ends well too, the last stanza has a great flow and it doesn't end abruptly nor bluntly pessimistic either. A good write, in my opinion. Some minor things let it down.

    First stanza was a bit weak, but the rest was spot on. Good work