Comments : How to Kill the Prom Queen

  • 15 years ago

    by Pesamenteiro

    He doesn't see her
    but she wishes he did
    he loved her, he told her
    he lied just the same

    A bit cliché but very good opening

    heart bleeding solely
    from acid last words
    don't hold her, don't touch her
    she'll burn in his grasp

    I love the idea of ‘acid last words’ and how they burn her. Gives a more original twist to what would seem to be a cliché poem.

    broken promise, wasted wording
    he don't love her anyways
    burning and holding
    it's just not the same

    Great stanza but I would change the word ‘burning’ to something else because you already used it in the previous stanza and it sounds a bit repetitive, and I would change ‘wording’ to words to make if flow a bit better.

    means hardly a thing to him
    isn't it a shame?
    she's pretty, she's broken
    he won't save her now

    Try adding something at the beginning of the first line, it sounds like you left it out, im not sure if was on purpose or not.

    she's drowning, he won't see
    his eyes fixed on another girl
    don't tell her, don't love her
    she knows that you lied

    Great stanza, but try taking out the word ‘girl’ on the second line to make it flow better (im obsessed with flow…can you tell??)

    the story is ending, there's a surprise

    I like how you put this line separate from the others, like a pause in the poem. Really makes it you want to keep reading

    she died being lonely,
    suicide note beside the rope
    he cried then, he saw then
    how he killed the prom queen

    I like how you use the repetition of ‘then’ in the third line and how you put the whole suicide thing in one stanza, making it more of a surprise (though you could tell by the title) great ending for the poem (I find poems difficult to end well)

    ~RayLeen
    4/5