They'll try to tell you
That what you saw
Was just a nightmare
But what would force you
To wake up crying an ocean
For the things you've seen
Every moment a bell rings
It's said to toll for you
But it tolls for them
They who expect it to
Ring on command
For you
And the rain's still falling
On your soul
All around your intuition
A fusillade of sound
That drowns you out
And keeps you hoping
Crying shows weakness They say
But really, it's the thought that counts
Once the droplets begin
It's easy to think yourself strong
So what is weakness
What is strength
The river welcomes you with open arms
A centre that will hold you
Until you feel again
A place that will revitalize you
recover you from all the false morals
About showing you're too resolute for tears
But it's still raining outside
And the grass is still greener
And you'd rather be wrapped up
In your distracting life
Than what you're really entangled in
You're still trapped in your threnody
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Nice poem, but... It sounded like a song. Of course poems are, in a way, songs, but this sounded like a song.
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Nice ending. Liked the poem.
Now...PUNCTUATION!! I didn't mark them there because that would just use all the space and would look really untidy. But seriously! Songs don't necessarily need punctuation, but poems do. You're missing most of the commas and all the periods.
Also get rid of all the apostrophes; Away with them. It will make the poem look wiser and take away some of the "song" elements from it. Taking away the apostrophes would also make some parts flow much better.
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I love this, nicely written. Well done.
My favorite part
Punctuation

This is very rare for me, but I like this poem without punctuation. You managed very well to keep things clear without it, which I know can be difficult. The one thing I would change is adding questions marks where they fit—question marks (especially when at the end of a stanza) can usually work as an exception to the rule of consistency. I’d put one at the end of the first stanza, and two for these questions:
“So what is weakness?
What is strength?”
Rhythm
Remember, rhythm is the flow of your words; the way people read them, meaning you need it to be smooth and (for lack of a better word xD) rhythmic. Rather than going through and finding, and pointing out, any tiny glitches in your rhythm, I’m going to tell you what I tell everyone: reading your poem aloud does wonders. If you read through it 3 times in your head you probably wouldn’t find everything you’d find by reading it aloud even once.
What I think would work especially well for this poem is if you established a meter for it. Snoink wrote an article about it, very helpful: viewarticlebody.php?t=19433
Content
Almost every stanza you have here includes/is founded on a metaphor. I really like that about this poem. The imagery is lovely.
I would like to see you include some in this stanza:
Crying shows weakness They say
But really, it's the thought that counts
Once the droplets begin
It's easy to think yourself strong
So what is weakness
What is strength
You’re verging on the unoriginal. I think it would be improved by some colour, like you give your other stanzas.
The subject of this poem is of the kind that might be different to everybody, which I like. It’s something everyone can relate to, which is a key factor in creating a successful poem. Good job with that.
What I would like to see is a more obvious connection between each stanza. They seem a little disjointed, as they are. Think of an essay, or a story, how each paragraph is a new idea, but they’re connected, and the reader can see that. That’s how it ought to be here.
Take for instance the first two stanzas: they share a connection, both mentioning “them”. I think you could help that by mentioning “them” sooner in the second stanza, but it works.
However, the 2nd and the 3rd stanzas are where you start to encounter a problem. You say “And”.
“And the rain's still falling
On your soul.”
But you don’t lead into it in the stanza before.
I think that’s one of the more important things to fix.
I really like the ending, by the way. Good job.
This is a really good poem. It leaves the reader to figure out what you're talking about as they read it, and then at the end, you still don't really say what it's about. It leaves the reader to think of what they think it's about.
or at least that's what I thought of it.
There are very good metaphors, but you could probably use some more punctuation at the ends of the lines.
Hmm...the concept and thought behind the poem was good. Dark, slightly morbid, I enjoyed it.
My nit-picks are;
-Punctuation should be added
-A little more meter/syllable (I can't find the correct word I'm looking for right now so I'm using these ones...my mind is drawing blanks!) balance because one line is short and then the next is longer and then the next is medium length. It is kind of confusing because of this and when one reads it, it is read unsteadily.
My favourite lines were
Other than that, it was a good poem but not the best. I liked the concept behind it.
That was an amazing poem. Um. That's it. It could use some punctuation but otherwise it was deep and well written. I like it a lot.
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