Sorry, Songbird
By: The.Dreamwalker
A ceaseless, sifting, songbird,
On a cold September night,
Could hardly bring that passion,
Of a heart that’s still in flight.
Her song may be of sadness,
And her tune a folly too,
But nothing holds the heartache,
Of that molten azure blue.
Her wings may be of softness,
With colours of every kind,
But I prefer the clear ones,
That appear inside my mind.
I know that she sings for me;
And I’ll pity her if I must,
But nothing could be better,
Than the one of which I trust.
I’ll bear her disappointment,
Cause I know I’ve been unsound,
But without him I would be,
An insurmountable let-down.
To someone else she’s beautiful;
A treasure to behold,
But for me I’ve got my fortune,
It’s a prize that can’t be sold.
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This is absolutely beautiful! Please keep writing, I counted no flaws except the advise that, don't sacrifice expressing yourself for a rhyme.
I just realized how late this review is! I'm extremely sorry. In fact, to make up for its lateness, I'll go ahead and review something else of yours after this review is done. I haven't read any of the other reviews, so I apologize in advance if I happen to repeat anything. So. Let's get started, shall we?
I'm honestly sorry for being so harsh with you. With work, I think this poem could amount to something beautiful. And, again, I'm even more sorry for being this late. :p
I do hope this helped. PM me with any questions or comments regarding this review, and, as always, keep writing.
-Kafka
Hey Dreamy, as requested.
Eh, as I read in your blog you're kind of out of your element? It shows, though it's always nice to see people try out poetry a little more.
It's generally an amateur take on poetry from someone who hasn't found their voice, nor become aware of the full utilization of poetic devices for description rather then sticking to the basic story telling voice. How do you separate yourself from that?
Well, the most stereotypical advice I can give you to start you off is read poetry. I read a lot of poetry from different well-known poetic users on the site when I started out. They aren't hard to find really they're scattered around the site, but you can also go for known poets in general. I was recommend a marvelous site not long ago (http://www.poets.org/)
Just read, see what people are doing that makes their work different from every other teenager on this site that wants to express their feelings while bathing us in their literary emoh genius. Take care to look past these and see where they fall flat.
You've taken a slight step away from the completely literal, but your imagery is bland. The only sort of description I get through this entire poem is:
Which to be honest isn't much for me to work with. Molten azure? Okay that sounds like a wonderful colour. But it doesn't paint out this bird for me and doesn't accentuate the emotions you're trying to convey within the poem.
For example, azure is a nice bright blue, but you're communicating a light sadness yes? A bright colour ferociously contradicts that. You have to be carefully with any description you put in. You want a colour that's softer, maybe not completely dull but a little more faded. And you want to really push on the fact it's bright, but still faded if that makes sense?
Then the next issue is your lack of description, it's not only for physical things. You can relate an emotion to a simple action with simple textures, sights, smells, actions. You can relate her singing to (being cliche here, don't take this word for word
Lastly the amount of it, it's not restricted to two or three images once you've stepped away from the physical and literal.
Poetry itself is really telling a story in the manner of eating a fruit like an apricot.
Soft textured words on the inside, a deep thought process and story and in the middle a feeling or general lasting emotion or concept.
I need to lay off the comparisons.
Yours,
Kamas
No, no, thank you kindly and I'm glad you took the time to review it! Made me really happy! And I'll think about changing up the word scheme
. I got bored this morning and wrote this so I wasn't really thinking about wording xD. I saw blue-jays outside and it made me happy cause spring was here
so I wrote about them ;D
This is beautiful! It's not corny, it is poetic, you did a great job conveying a message, I really love it (and I rarely like poetry). I liked how you only made every other line rhyme, it made it less corny but gave it an extra poetic value that makes it perfect. I think you used words perfectly. you used words that are less common, which i like.

You used some good words, but I think a few more would be good. In the last four lines there weren't any amazing words that really caught my attention, so you could use more descriptive words there.
I especially like the line, " of that molten azure blue." It's extremely descriptive and the words are poetic and give a very distinct image in the reader's mind. I also liked the last line.
I hope my review helped, I'm not that good at reviewing poetry!