Only Way to Cope

One hates to love
One loves to hate
The two of them relate.

One fights for love
One loves to fight
Neither are in the right.

One kills to love
One loves to kill
Murderers, they are still.

One dies to love
One loves to die.
Either way, you cry.

I don't know about you all
but love no longer sings
to me.

This overwhelming emotion
makes men do crazy things
for me.

Sometimes all one needs to see
is the flipped side of it all,
says me.

To live itself, becomes evil
and the good becomes the small
in me.

And when all those loved perish,
one comes to believe
like me.

Love is more than just romance,
More than just coincidental chance.
Love is faith and life and hope,
It is the only way to cope.

One fights for love
One loves to fight
Neither surely are right.

I think it should be: Surely neither one is right.

And when all those loved parish,
one comes to believe
like me.

'Parish' should be 'Perish'.

I haven't the time for a proper review--dinnertime soon--but I pointed out what I noticed above.
I thought this was excellent for a draft, and pretty good for a poem. If you know what I mean.

You poem starts good but its quality fades away after a while. If you revisit it and make the entire piece sound poetic, you will be able to express your feelings in an immesly clearer way and leave a much deeper impact on readers. Your poem has great potential but until you rewrite the majority of your verses, it will remain hidden. On the plus side, your plot is both creative and interesting and your wording on the first few verses is good except for some gramaticall and spelling errors.

It may be a draft, but it is very good.
I don't think it needs many corrections, since it's mostly sound.
Plus, I loved reciting this to a little jingle XD

okay there were a lot of things wrong with this but overall this was really great. i have to go but i'll be back to properly critique.

This was pretty good I thought. One thing confused me: by the fifth stanza, your rhyme scheme had suddenly changed. It's not bad I guess... it just took me by surprise.

Oh wow. I really liked this.
I usually have a hard time interpreting poems, but this one was clear to me! =]
Good job!

You know, I like this. I like both patterns you have going on -- the one-to-one and the ___ me (or so I've named them). And then you bring it together in a final stanza.

I'd cut out the "trust me" at the end if you're going to keep it like this. It doesn't really add anything, and it goes back to the ___ me portion, which at this point has concluded.

Also, I'm really not sure the two patterns mesh together very well. Both are interesting ideas on their own, but there needs to be more of a transition, more of a blend. Also, in that last stanza (and I'm not counting the last line as a stanza), you should decide how you want to rhyme it: first and third lines, second and fourth; or first and second, third and fourth.

I really like the idea presented here, and I'm hesitant to tell you to cut anything but the last line, because I kind of like how there's almost a prologue effect to it with the one-to-one part, and then it goes into more of an explanation as to how it affects others, why it is important.

Sorry I couldn't give you more specific advice, but it really is a lovely poem, and I'd like to see more of this.

Plus, I loved reciting this to a little jingle XD

lol! The 'I don't know about you all' sounds a bit Christmasy doesn't it? Wasn't done intentionally. I couldn't figure out another way to say it.

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Thanks for all the comments everyone!

I've looked at it a couple of times and I noticed that it wasn't the rhyming itself that was the problem, it was the abrupt change in rhyme scheme.

I've fixed a few things that you have all mentioned and pointed out to me, for that, I thank you all very much.

Right now, I'm going to take a while to brainstorm and see if I can find a way to fix that and have a better transition as Crysi mentioned...I think that was what threw everyone off.

Also, I know the 'says me' part is grammatically incorrect. I'm not too fussy about it, but I couldn't figure out another word to put in there for 'says'. If anyone has any ideas, let me know.

I think it's good work. What inspired you to write this?

Nice. The rhythm was different from a lot of poems I've read, and the topic was dark but pulled off in a light-hearted way.

This poem kind of has three parts to it.

Part one starts here:

Audy wrote:One hates to love
One loves to hate
The two of them relate.

Nice rhyming scheme. I love how you flip over the words here, and then say how they both are similar even though they mean different things.

Part two:

Audy wrote:I don't know about you all
but love no longer sings
to me.

It's interesting how you put this. All the other verse are also similar but I didn't like your idea with this bit. I think the flow got messed up a little (at least to me.) I do understand why this part was relevant to the poem though

Part three: the final verse:

Audy wrote:Love is more than just romance,
More than just coincidental chance.
Love is faith and life and hope,
It is the only way to cope.

I think its my favourite verse, and shows why you chose the title. Rhyming scheme was good.

But I liked this poem. Overall, it was okay.

Deanie x