06-30-2017, 07:41 AM
(06-26-2017, 09:29 PM)CRNDLSM Wrote: Funny what a little information can do,Hi. For what started off so promising I can't help but feel like this poem fell of the tracks. I think that they last stanza is the one that is supposed to bring it all together, but it doesn't right now. I think if you used the last stanza to bring the rest of the poem into focus the poem would be a lot better. Right now the poem sits as four stanzas of thought that arent brought together by the fifth...
reflecting me for you,
receding from view
the me you thought you knew.
Although I'm sure you've always known;
the light had shown
a seed overgrown;
a dagger cutting through bone. JI think this is where you start to loose me. A Dagger? A seed? A Light. There is a peppering of thoughts but nothing to tie them together into a concrete thought. What is a seed overgrown. The metaphor, it doesn't work.
The comfort is on the horizon.
What does anyone have to gain,
to welcome pain,
to seem insane
at the risk it's all in vain?
The future hides behind a glare,
but once you're there,
it's all laid bare.
The truth is love will lead to despair, This line is old.
but the comfort is on the horizon.
Discovering your destiny,
reality
reflects it you for me. I feel like we are missing a word here.... or something...
Funny how we can agree to disagree.
Comfort is on the horizon is OK, but what horizon? Sometimes you have leave it up to the reader, but i think you have used it as a refrain, you should be slightly more focused. Maybe drop the refrain and move this line to the last.

