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Hello Rong and welcome to YWS! I have to say, I agree with a lot of commentary here. There's so much potential in writing about travel, with all the new sights, sounds, strange moments, etc. This seems to gloss over them and as a result, doesn't say anything interesting. To improve this, I would focus on a single moment in this journey. Show us what happened and how the traveler felt about it in a way that makes the reader feel something. I think you have potential if you change your focus to getting emotional reactions from the reader. Keep writing!
Hi there!
This poem was okay. I get what you're trying to say here, but I don't feel anything after reading this. I like the poems that can really draw emotions from me. I want to laugh. I want to cry. I want to smile. I don't get any of these feelings from this.
On with the review: I agree with Karzkin below me. You don't have to capitalize each line or put punctuation at the end of every line. I used to do this myself until someone pointed it out. The commas may be needed, but definitely not the capitalization. Think of it this way; would you capitalize a word in the middle of a sentence? The way a poem is written is in a number of sentences seperated into lines. For example, your first two lines say "A journey begins,/Begun journey to sojourn," If this was a sentence it would look like this: "A journey begins, Begun journey to sojourn". This doesn't work with the capitol letter so you should keep it lowercase. Understand?
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Overall this is a decent poem. If you add some imagery or maybe some of the traveler's feelings, it'll be much better.
I hope this wasn't a harsh review. Don't take it personally, this is just how I feel about it. At the end of the day, it's your poem, not mine. I hope to read more of your stuff!
Keep writing!
**Noelle**
Welcome, friend. Prepare for a Killa Kritique.
First, (and this is just a style thing) there is no real need to capitalise the first word of each line or to put a comma at the end of each line. Both are outdated traditions, redundant in modern poetry. But like I said, it's just a style thing and not really important either way. Now for the good stuff.
I have to say, this poem seems rather... flat. There is no life to it. Yes, there is colour, but I'd rather see something in person then be shown a painting. There is a very important element missing, the heart of poetry. That, of course, is imagery. That is the difference between poetry and anything else; poetry not only contains but relies upon evocative language. You have a brief flash of a narrative, but that's about it. There is nothing to draw me in, nothing that made me say wow, nothing that really stood out to me. I bet tomorrow I won't be able to remember a single line from this piece. Give me life, give me sensation, give me description. I don't want you to tell me something, I want you to show me something. Take, for instance, Ezra Pound's 'In a station of the Metro':
or William Carlos William's masterpiece 'The Red Wheelbarrow':
There isn't much to either of them on the surface. Just a series of simple images, but (most importantly) images that are linked to force the reader to make connections they otherwise wouldn't make. That is the job of the poet; make your reader see things that were right in front of them the whole time. Your poem here fails because it doesn't do that; it doesn't show me anything I haven't seen before.
Also, ditch the thesaurus. Use your own voice, your own vocab. It's much more genuine that way.
It's a start. Keep going.
Le K.
I don't have time to review, but I just wanted to say that I liked it, and it looked nice
Welcome to YWS!