Forum: Writers


Subject: Sky Tears

The_Aftermath opened this issue on Mar 12, 2003 ยท 4 posts


Crescent posted Fri, 14 March 2003 at 8:35 PM

Disclaimer - I am a fiction writer, not a poet. All critiques should be taken with no less than 3 grains of salt.

I do like this poem more than the last. You do a good job use original lines, such as:

Queen of the sky don't cry for me.
Let the angels cry for me, and let them bow to you.

The flow is definitely coming along, though you still have a tendency of wrapping up everything on each line. I know that poetry is less restricted to grammar than prose, but there's a serious issue (to me) with verb tenses. You put the poem in present tense to bring immediacy to the reader, but you occasionally slip up and put something in the past tense. I took part of a stanza and made a few changes to try to help with the rhythm and the verbs.

The eyes that make me so blind,
So blind that I did not see it,
So blind that when it happened,
The shock took control.
The rain cries for me, because I can not cry.
The sun rises for me every day,
Only to again, disappear behind the clouds.
To hide from me yet again.

The eyes that make me so blind,
So blind I can not see,
So blind when it happens,
And shock takes control.
The rain cries for me, because I can not cry.
The sun rises for me every day,
Only to again, disappear behind the clouds,
Hiding from me yet again.

I'd also create a fourth stanza, starting with the line: Yesterday it rained, and I felt much better, This would effectively give you a "time has passed" notice to the reader, so it would be okay to change the tone and put things into the past tense. (It's hard to talk about yesterday in the present tense.)

Cheers!