This was cool. Interesting. =] Keep it up.

`taleee xx

So well written and an interesting topic to write about! Nicely done, Darien... Enjoyable read... ;o)

Haha nice. we just learned about all this stuff this year. so it caught my eye. i like it. it flows and shows how much you like frederick

Fantastic historic write Darien really well thought out and portrayed with accuracy and clear passion on your behalf - its a great write, your use of imagery the way you tell him story, educative poetry -brilliance :o)
eirisa xxoo

They say we learn something new everyday ....
Yet at my age you'd think how much is there left that they haven't seen, heard or read....
but the fact being that I learned a new thing in history today .....so thank-you Darien for this amazing write.

A very enjoyable read !

A very interesting poem, Darien. An enlightening read. Educational poetry is great :)

A very good write my friend, you know your history well!!

Very interesting Darien, I definatly learned something new. It was intruging and different, nicely done.

(And don't worry I was a good girl while Miguel was here.....I miss him :( )

Yay history *clap, clap, clap* Nah, just playing. I'm not the history nut but I do respect others for enjoying something like that and for being willing to share it. Well now, the flow was cool as was imagery. Your words were also cool but towards the end it kinda had some sort of bump. Still nice write.
~Fallen

I'm not a history fan. I get dates and names confused until I start talking about one person and then end up saying something else entirely. But this poem was good. It told me things I didn't know and I person I don't remember even hearing about.
It was a different idea to me, I don't read many history poems here, and it addressed probably some really good points in his life. It seemed really well thought out. You can tell from the very start of th poem to the ending where it seemed the speaker yelled out his name in some sort of victory.

This is really good and I think that you portrayed Frederick the Great and all of his accomplishments well. The flow and rhythm of this was really good and it really kept my interest from beginning to end. Great job on this! I loved reading it!

An interesting historical poem indeed, quite an informative write too. To me it seemed to be a story within a poem, and I liked this aspect of it.
The format was good , and rhyme almost perfect, apart from the fourth stanza because to me it doesn't rhyme (probably the difference in accents).
Good strong ending too, rounding it off with the name of the subject was good.
Well done.

My poem insomnia was titled that because of the last two lines which are
"And if vision of life seems numb,
I will sleep on that mere notion."
Now of course vision of life isn't numb, is it? To me it is alive and felt more than ever. So the idea of sleeping on that notion cannot be done, thus making me sleepless which is insomnia...See it works for me and I do have my reasons never mind how bizzare they are.

I know this is biased but I am all for this poem of yours. For one thing - my parents got my name from this great warrior king.... and this is a fitting poem for him. Good stuff!
Frederick

A VERY different poem very good,5/5+
i have never read a poem about history on this site yet.

Darien excellent poem. Very historical too. I love history also and may use your idea to wrote some historical poems if you don't mind me using your idea.
Nate aka "The Tie Guy"

Some of the meter and rhyme could do with polishing up, if it's meant to be rhythmical and military-like, that is.
"enlightened despot" seems to be a contradiction -in-terms. Was that intended? Perhaps leaving some of the telling of events and sustituting it with more descriptive scenes could help.
Good effort though.
Thanks for the read.
Mick.

Nevere see a poem like this before which makes it amazing i love the way it was written and the topic 5.5

I loved the idea of you putting something you love like history into a poem...just somehthing you dont see...Great Job...
Emma 5/5

"I reformed our army to it's best,"
you don't need the apostrophe in its, it isn't a contraction in this case.

"I reformed our army to it's best,
there was no country we did fear.
We had the best army in Europe,
Attacking us, no one would dare."
fear/dare is a slant rhyme =P, just kidding, I don't really care...

Yeah, Frederick the Great really did a lot for Prussia, it used to be just a little backwards part of the Holy Roman Empire.

Very interesting i havnt heard many poems about history before

sarah

Another great poem
Good Job
*an applause*
TTYL
>>MIA