Comments : Memories (Collaboration)

  • 8 years ago

    by Poet on the Piano

    "Rain from azure clouds fall gently
    onto the flowers in your hair. Tempted
    by your muse, I write about the dark
    tresses that match your candlelit iris'."

    - First line: "fall" should be plural since the subject is "rain". I would also suggest using a more unique verb, as I feel "fall" is a bit mundane. I love the next line though and the ties you feel with this person, the passion.

    "You are the personification
    of my memories,
    you are Mnemosyne --
    the blue moon that proves
    the night wrong
    everytime Cannas sleep
    in the broken bones
    of your dainty muse."

    - I had to look up "Mnemosyne" and "Cannas", and I'm glad I did. Makes the poem richer.

    "Swept up in personifying what is left
    of me, you're a natural beauty that follows
    angelic tendencies of sympathetic
    oaths, that someday our hearts shall intertwined."

    - Just my opinion, but I feel you are trying too hard with this stanza. It seems forced and too wordy. Since you already mention "personification" in the previous stanza, I think the first line isn't even needed. Also, "angelic tendencies of sympathetic oaths" doesn't add much to the poem. I guess I really don't feel a connection from those lines because it isn't specific in what you are trying to say, if that makes sense?

    - "shall intertwined" should be "shall be intertwined".

    "Humid days are gloriously felt
    in the whispers
    of your woebegone winds.
    Summer flowers won't bloom
    until you let your melancholic inks
    be dripped upon
    a wayfarer's abandoned papers."

    - I feel like you could revise this to be less wordy and not have as many filler words that "tell" instead of "show", such as the word "felt" or "let".

    This is just an idea to highlight what I mean:

    "Humid days- your woebegone winds,
    summer flowers won't bloom unless your
    melancholic ink drips upon a wayfarer's
    abandoned papers."

    "Doubts corrupt a soul's conscious
    of writing obituaries, crafted from
    algid remorses. Bohemian rhapsodies
    travel among shadows, trying to find tranquility."

    - This first line doesn't make sense to me when reading? Did you mean "Doubts corrupt a soul conscious of writing obituaries" or "Doubts corrupt a soul's conscience"?
    - Also, I feel "remorses" would sound more natural as "remorse".
    - I don't see the connection with the last line?

    "Your beauty remains young --
    a vividly coloured dream,
    a maiden that longs
    for Cannas to bloom."-

    - Beautiful line here and re-visit and mention of the Cannas again.

    "Serendipity comes along
    with the drops of rain
    which nourish the being
    of your elegantly delicate muse."

    - I feel like this ending is weak, just my 2 cents though. "Serendipity comes along" - that doesn't say much. "comes along" seems so passive, maybe use a stronger verb to impact the reader more?

    - Also, "elegantly delicate muse" doesn't do much for me as the reader, it just seems like you're putting adverbs and adjectives to describe instead of show. I don't think you need two words to even describe "muse". Maybe too you could capitalize and write "Muse"?

    Interesting collab with a lot of creativity. Only my suggestions though that some parts could be worked on and strengthened.

    Take care.

  • 8 years ago

    by Ben Pickard

    This really is a beautiful poem.........poetic!