Comments : While the smoke settles

  • 16 years ago

    by Frozen hearT

    Wow this is good wroth reading....... good work

  • 16 years ago

    by BrokenREALiTy

    The piece's flow is smooth until it gets to the second to last stanza.

    demaged
    `damaged

    me heart,
    `should be "my heart"

    I feel like you should edit the second to last stanza, because it really screws up the flow and that just takes away from the beauty of the poem.

    I actually really like this piece. It's so haunting, but so beautifu all the same. Your choice of word is absolutely stunning.

    No tenderly-wild flames of love
    But weak warmth of dead regrets
    `Gorgeous.

    The imagery is so striking ... I wasn't quite sure whether I liked the ending or not though, because it deferred from the rhyming and that kind of disturbs the smoothness of the piece. I liked it though. It holds a deep, beautiful meaning. These haunting, tragic memories just stalking away at us as we try and run from them to live, because they're killing us.
    ..__MiNDYY

  • 16 years ago

    by Ash

    WOW! That was simply amazing! Enticing infact with every word and every line I felt so drawn into this one.
    Your word choice is so amazing that it does justice in revealing what emotions you want to convey.
    From the start to the end it seemed like a flawless rendition of feelings that superbly connect as the poem moves along.
    This has to be one of the best poems I've ever written!
    Excellent, superb, amazing.... 100/5

  • 16 years ago

    by Ash

    Sorry I meant it's one of the best poems I've ever read

  • 16 years ago

    by NinjaGirl

    A very touching piece of amazing poetry. it was very inspiring and heartfelt. if i could write like this... well, i wish that i could..
    the flow was a little off, as was the rhyme and there were a few spelling mistakes, but all in all, a very unique piece. an amazing read.
    i enjoyed this piece immensely.

    5/5

    Keep Writing, lovely
    As Always,
    ~NinjaGirl~

  • 16 years ago

    by BlueEyedMystery

    The soft moonless night
    Will wipe away my tear
    I promised not to cry
    But why did it appear?
    `` Hmm, maybe you could use a metaphor with tear? I only say this, because so meany people write poem with the word tear or tears in it, and it would just help to set your poem apart from all the rest. The last line kept me interested though.. I wanted to know what appeared.

    Alone, on this bitter night
    In this dormant forest
    I'm burning my heart
    On the flame of sorrows
    `` Well.. forest and sorrows don't really rhyme, but truthfully I didn't even notice until I went back and looked at the stanza more closely. I also have a suggestion for the third line. How about changing it to something like this: My heart is ablaze. It's you choice though, I just think that my wording sounds a little more creepy.

    The tongues of fire dance
    The smoke silently settles
    Like ashes of fallen stars
    Like ashes of rose petals
    `` Ahh, I know I'm making a lot of suggestions, but I'm not saying that your way isn't good. Okay? Don't get mad at me. >< I've already had one person get mad at me for making suggestions. Okay here's another one, in the second line instead of silently maybe try sofly or gently. I usually wouldn't like how you repeated "Like ashes of" in the last two lines, but I think it really works here. x]

    There's no sound and no glow
    Anymore... What is now left?
    No tenderly-wild flames of love
    But weak warmth of dead regrets
    `` Looove the question in the second line! Oooh, and the word "tenderly-wild" in the third line. I always seem to love contradictions, and the one you used works amazingly in this poem. It really defines how love can be.

    The smoke settles... But look...
    what's here, on the land?
    One petal, almost not demaged by the fire.
    Carefully, i take it in my hand
    `` Aww, I love the little glimmer of hope here. I don't think I've ever read a dark poem with a glimmer of hope in it. o.o Also, you need to capitalize the i in the last line. Just a little mistake though, I'm sure it was just a typo or something. x]

    The sunset lightens the sky
    And turns away the night.
    One last petal of me heart,
    one last chance to survive.
    `` Aww, yay! Happy ending. I think this ending was really surprising since at the very beginning you never would have thought it would end happily. It works, though. I like it. In the third line, you've got another typo, me should be my. It's okay though. I make tons of typos, just make sure you go back and re-read it carefully to try to find all of them.

    I loved this poem. You did a great job on it. x]

    Keep writing!
    Cayce

    P.S. Go back and check some of you punctuation, I think you're missing some. :]

  • 16 years ago

    by BREEawNUHH

    Oh, goodness. This was beautiful. I loved it. The only thing that I wasn't particularly fond of is the fact that the rhyme wasn't constant. I think that throws off the flow a little bit when I read it.

    "The tongues of fire dance
    The smoke silently settles
    Like ashes of fallen stars
    Like ashes of rose petals"

    ^^ This was my favourite stanza. It says so much, in so few words. Wonderful.

    ``Briana

  • 16 years ago

    by David

    Overall note for this poem, need to add a few more words to each line to capture the full meaning you are trying to portray.

    the opening stanza was soft and surreal. it made you ease gently into the poem, made you comfortable and was very simple and easy to understand. i thought this was a highlight, not something that was bad, like too simple.

    little confused about what fire dance is, but my imagination helped me think of what that would look like, which is a great technique you used. imagery. very powerful and masterfully used.

    then the "anymore..."
    this was tricky, i think that this word should have been with the sentence above it, due to by itself on the line then asking a question it just simply felt out of place.

    this had so much potential. you capped it off really well. i must admit this was stunning, and my idea's are just for future thought when trying to get everything perfect. and i mean perfect.

    5/5 David