first poem not great
By Chainslaw
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I'd already died
but you still took me
your electric ignited me
sparked light into my eyes and I thought
that maybe
it doesn't have to go on this way
maybe I don't have to hide alone
in a blanket in the dark
I know you're broken
but I won't try to change it
because the truth is
you're even more beautiful
as fragments of yourself
because you leave shards of yourself in me
every time we speak
and when you go again
I lose myself trying
to make sense of them
I fall in love
with each splinter of you
and in my stupid head
you're reason enough
to go on thinking
that one day I will walk out of here
and follow the light that leads away from darkness
and ends at your feet
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Good
Well if this is your first poem you've got real potential as your experience and practise grows. I really quite like this piece although romance poetry is not something that I would actively seek out. A couple of observations if I may?
Give the poem a title - it deserves that much at least!
Second thing that I would recommend is not to start each new line with a capital letter (first stanza). You shift to not doing that from stanza two to the end.
I would not use a lower case I (i) for a first person personal pronoun. I know that is vogue in some sections of the poetry world but in my opinion it looks lazy or sloppy or both - stick to the more standard capital (I).
The last line of the first stanza should be revised to either:
'in a blanket in the dark'
or
'in a blanket of dark'
I'd be concerned about the repetition of 'me' in the second stanza too. Try to find a way round this - I love the shards and fragments imagery though build on that aspect of the poem if you can.
There are a couple of other things that I noticed but maybe I've said enough already. Please remember that this is only my personal and subjective opinion on what is a sound poem that you should be really pleased with.
Well done and welcome to ABCtales by the way!
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I don't the writing
I don't the writing expirience, or self confidence, of scratch to give that level of feedback. But I loved your peom, keep it up. Welcome to the site govna.
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thought this was great
thought this was great chainslaw, v lovely, particularly 'I fall in love /with each splinter of you'. great work.
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