Love

by Kat Jackson

Published September 11, 2010

Love:

Love leaves scars to learn from;
love leaves care to open.
Love gives hope to believe,
love delivers a key to use.
True love uncovers passion,
but some love reveals truth.

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Kat Jackson commented Comment · Sep 18, 2010

Thank you for the feedback! Honestly, I was a little unsure about a couple parts but thanks for making pointing out it would've been better off the other way. Lol, thank you!

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HostofHorus wrote a review Review · Sep 14, 2010

Pleased to be acquainted Kat!

Though short poems are kind of hard to go into a lot of detail on I will try by best! (and don't think short poems are bad, I like them much more than long ones.)

Over all I really liked it, especially the last two lines... these.

True love uncovers passion,
but some love reveals truth.

Yeah, I really liked those! They were good! :) As it has been stated above, the first line needs to have from added, otherwise it makes it seem like your saying that scars can learn, which I don't think they can.... so...
Love leaves scars to learn from,


That was about it from my view. I loved the statement made in this, it rings very true to all, in my mind anyways... So yeah.... Keep writing! And post them so we can see! :D

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Calligraphy wrote a review Review · Sep 14, 2010

Kat Jackson wrote:Love:

Love leaves scars to learn from; This does make way more sense, sorry.
love leaves care to open.
Love gives hope to believe in,
love delivers a key to use. Up until now I thought you were talking about after you have fallen in love with someone. But, you can get the key to open up someones heart before you love them.
True love uncovers passion,
but some love reveals truth. I really like this ending.


I like this poem, but like simplycomplex said it seems more like you are stating your opinion than anything. You didn't make me think like I think all poems should. There was no question I had to answer for myself. You stated fact and the fact is true. You need to leave room for discussion in my opinion.

I hope I helped,

A. S.

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simplycomplex wrote a review Review · Sep 13, 2010

Alright, so, I think short poems are harder to review, but I'll give it a try.

Love leaves scars to learn from; (I think it makes more sense to add "from" to explain the "scars to learn".)
love leaves care to open.
Love gives hope to believe,
love delivers a key to use.
True love uncovers passion,
but some love reveals truth.

I get your point and what you're trying to say here, but I feel like you're just expressing your opinion in a way. The poem's nice, but each line is like a statement and doesn't feel very poetic to me. Just expanding on this more and adding a line or two between what's here and breaking it into a couple stanzas will really improve this poem. You have a good idea here, but it's just an idea. I think expanding on it will really make it better.
In the last line, "but" doesn't really fit there. "some love reveals truth" isn't contradictory with "true love uncovers passion", so putting "and" would work better.
I hope I helped! Keep writing :)



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