Friday, January 13, 2012

Comments on a poem please?

I read your comments first, then your poem. I don't know why people think that poetry must conform to certain set styles. If you don't want to rhyme or want to make your stanzas 3 lines then 10 lines than 2 lines, it's your poem you write it how you want to. Free verse is a style and most people write in this style. I know I do. My biggest gripe is that you use a few commas but no periods. Why does everyone forget to use punctuation in poetry? Run on sentences make for difficult reading. Your flow get all disrupted and then you get comments like I saw. The only thing abut the way you have your stanzas that I don't like is that in the fourth and 8th stanzas you have a couple of really long lines mixed into short lines. If you could break those lines up, yes the stanza will be longer, it would have a better look to the poem. Your meaning and flow would be barely affected. I don't get the cliched feel when I read this. I like the imagery that you chose to use. I really like the stanza about getting lost in space. Make these few changes and I think you will like the result.

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