rain, wind, fire

by Dargquon Ql'deleodna

Published April 24, 2005

Rain, Wind, and Fire

Rain
Falling silently
Crack of thunder
Blinding flashes of light
Rain

Wind
Colorless wind
Blowing leaves everywhere
Disrupting the silence of midnight
Unstoppable

Burning bright
A burning warm sensation
Tongues of fire licking hungrily
Consuming all in its large wake of flames
Mass destruction

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emotion_less
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emotion_less commented Comment · Apr 24, 2005

For "Wind," I don't think you should put "wind" again in the stanza, since you are describing it. It is like explaining what a words mean and using the word in the explanation.

Dargquon Ql'deleodna commented Comment · Apr 24, 2005

fyi: no offense taken, i am always open to comments. i dont consider my writing skills that great so i try to c what people say i ned to improve on and i try to improve on it. thanks for the crit 8-[

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hekategirl wrote a review Review · Apr 24, 2005

I agree with Brad when he says you had good imagry but they fell into cliche. But I do like this poem. Work on the flow though, this seemed very choppy to me.

"Tongues of fire licking hungrily
Consuming all in its large wake of flames"

I love these lines, if you revise this keep these :D

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Incandescence wrote a review Review · Apr 24, 2005

Kind of air-headed and elementary. There is a certain technique you were striving for; however, you did not pull it off, properly. What you were aiming for, I think, can be said to be like Dickinson's elipsis usage, where you start a sentence and jam it with imagery, and leave the reader to form his or her own conclusions about the meaning. This did not happen. This became a literal translation of each event, as they occur. While you had some good images, you essentially became a fractal of cliche.



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