reach

by Hadj

Published October 28, 2014

In Poetry

silently watching

i want to be noticed

but I'm not even there

.

i reach out to touch you

but I can't quite reach

my arms are too short

or maybe you're moving away

.

i feel like empty thoughts

slowly dying

and I feel my life

is wasted time

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godlypopo
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godlypopo wrote a review Review · Oct 29, 2014

Wow! I love the mysterious and lonely aspect to the poem :) I think that you exceed in creating an emotional aspect and you can clearly see an idea of parting and wanting to reach out for someone, perhaps a lover? To improve maybe you could add a poetry scheme to it or at least add a rhyming couplet at the end for effect.
Thats all :p
Godly

theironnovelist wrote a review Review · Oct 29, 2014

hullo hullo hullo!

I really like the deep, dark tone to this poem. I also like the way you formatted the stanzas, breaking them with periods with no other punctuation. It blends nicely with the lack of capitalization also, so it looks like it's supposed to be like that and not like you don't know how to capitalize words.

One suggestion is to give this poem a little more 'meat'. Especially in the line 'my arms are too short'. I get what you're trying to depict here...but maybe try to describe it a different way. It sounds a bit abruptly odd and out of place in context with the rest of the flowing language.

Focus on metaphors, similes, and lots of imagery when writing poetry! It's what really makes it; poetry is expressing your thoughts in a creative way, allowing the audience to take what they see from it for themselves.

Keep writing and good luck on your future poetry career. Hope I helped a bit :)

~iron.n

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anonymousx
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anonymousx commented Comment · Oct 29, 2014

Not a review but "my arms or too short" I think you meant "my arms are too short"

Hadj replied · Oct 29, 2014

Yes I did



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