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Being afraid to speak
The unpleasantries of past events
Were driven by the voices of contempt
Leaving me breathless
To that effect, I was left senseless
And when I laid under the covers
As I tried to warm myself from the cold stares
I shivered, as my skin turned white
By the solace of silence
But, as I overcame their sadness
I learned to embrace the cold
Until I was able to give warmth to others
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Unsaid truths and spoken hate
unsaid truths and spoken hate
will forever be how I remember you.
I won't remember your petite
and deliciously sweet smile.
I won't remember the nervous way
you'd embrace me
as though my open arms
might be retracted at any moment.
I won't remember your kindness
wrought from a belief you deserved
none of what life had been willing
to bless upon you.
I won't remember how I nearly loved
every little part of you
from your crooked smirk
to your large hands
molded perfectly to fit in mine.
I will remember your cowardice
your fear of the possibility of my love.
I will remember your lies
whispered sweetly to me
in that empty library
of how you th
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Mother Nature.
Mother Nature.
She is the world’s most notorious serial killer.
No other can be more creative or spontaneous.
Obscuring her weaknesses as her strengths,
Eradicating masses reducing flesh to ashes.
She turns all novels of life into a vengeful thriller.
The effects of her actions are simultaneous.
Her native reach is beyond any man’s length.
The fact is while we worry about taxes,
She could strike again at any given time.
After generations of countless preparations.
We still cannot calculate her complex design.
As she alters her variation to suit any situation.
Some pledge their allegiance to her,
Others doubt whether she e
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I don't remember what made me sit down to write this. It was in my Word for a few weeks. I suppose I was inspired by all the stories on facebook about the woman who kept her mother's body for I think it was a year? Also, A Rose for Emily can be considered inspirational, too.
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Hi there! I'm here critiquing this for .
As someone who loved A Rose for Emily, I can definitely appreciate the subject matter of this poem, and the little nods to that story are a nice touch as well. With that in mind, I think the things most clearly holding this poem back from being as effective as it could be are largely technical ones.
The most minor of these is probably the capitalization of the first word of each line. I remember being taught to do this in school, and you may have been as well, but in practice it tends to break up the flow of the poem. In general, a better choice is to simply capitalize (and punctuate) the same way you would if you were writing a paragraph. Doing that will make your poetry more fluid without having to change a word, and it's actually easier to write poems this way than with all the extra capitalization. Doing that might also make it easier to see where some punctuation might be appropriate to dictate/shape flow rather than just another line break and capital letter. That's just another easy way to improve your poetry without changing content.
What stands out most as an area for improvement in this poem, though, is the repetition. Although repetition is a good poetic device and can be used to good emotional effect, it seems to be overused here without a whole lot of purpose. The only place the repetition really adds much to the poem is the "sometimes" stanza, in which you use it well enough that it's probably the best stanza of the poem. But in almost every other instance, it feels like the poem would either be the same or better without the extra repetition of a given line. In poetry, it's important to make every word count, and too much repetition with not enough reason can quickly get in the way of that. For example, if you edited this poem to get rid of some of the excess repetition, it would be a fair bit shorter (something that the poem could use, in my opinion), the transitions would be more effective, and every word would count for more than it does now.
With those changes, the poem would be much more neat and easy to read. There would still be room for improvement in more subjective areas (for example, more poetic word choices), but these more concrete considerations are important to take into account as well. If you have any questions about what I wrote or would like me to expand on something, feel free to ask!
As someone who loved A Rose for Emily, I can definitely appreciate the subject matter of this poem, and the little nods to that story are a nice touch as well. With that in mind, I think the things most clearly holding this poem back from being as effective as it could be are largely technical ones.
The most minor of these is probably the capitalization of the first word of each line. I remember being taught to do this in school, and you may have been as well, but in practice it tends to break up the flow of the poem. In general, a better choice is to simply capitalize (and punctuate) the same way you would if you were writing a paragraph. Doing that will make your poetry more fluid without having to change a word, and it's actually easier to write poems this way than with all the extra capitalization. Doing that might also make it easier to see where some punctuation might be appropriate to dictate/shape flow rather than just another line break and capital letter. That's just another easy way to improve your poetry without changing content.
What stands out most as an area for improvement in this poem, though, is the repetition. Although repetition is a good poetic device and can be used to good emotional effect, it seems to be overused here without a whole lot of purpose. The only place the repetition really adds much to the poem is the "sometimes" stanza, in which you use it well enough that it's probably the best stanza of the poem. But in almost every other instance, it feels like the poem would either be the same or better without the extra repetition of a given line. In poetry, it's important to make every word count, and too much repetition with not enough reason can quickly get in the way of that. For example, if you edited this poem to get rid of some of the excess repetition, it would be a fair bit shorter (something that the poem could use, in my opinion), the transitions would be more effective, and every word would count for more than it does now.
With those changes, the poem would be much more neat and easy to read. There would still be room for improvement in more subjective areas (for example, more poetic word choices), but these more concrete considerations are important to take into account as well. If you have any questions about what I wrote or would like me to expand on something, feel free to ask!