Forum: Writers


Subject: These are the days: by Dakota McPhee

DARKEDAKOTA opened this issue on Jul 17, 2003 ยท 3 posts


Crescent posted Sat, 19 July 2003 at 1:05 PM

Very beautiful sentiment. It's not too sweet, but it isn't overly dark and bitter, either. I do have to mention that the second stanza is too choppy for me. Some of your sentences are actually sentence fragments, but only in the second stanza does that leap out at me. Poetry doesn't have to follow regular writing standards, but perhaps the ideas aren't complete enough and that's what is throwing me off. Otherwise, the flow is good and the casual rhymes give the poem some continuity without seeming forced. Welcome to the forum, and thanks for sharing! Cres