Not This Time

by deleted21

Published October 24, 2015

In Poetry

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ticktock123
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ticktock123 wrote a review Review · Nov 9, 2015

Hi! I read one of your recent poems and decided to see if the others were as good.... and clearly I was right.
This poem is amazing! I absolutely love it, and like I said for the other poem, I can relate to it so much. I literally felt like you were reading me like a book through your poem - and I think this might be the same for other people. Well done.

I liked the progression throughout the poem, and how there is hope at the end, like every time you don't run away because you believe that next time will be better.

I liked the verse about the war within yourself, that was really good, and for me, the first 3 verses were the best, you convey the emotions and thoughts inside people really well. I think the best line for me was: "everything felt useless / and started falling apart"

Anyway, I really like your poetry and really hope you keep writing -
Tick tock

Thanks for your kind words, mate. :)

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TheDarkWriter
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TheDarkWriter wrote a review Review · Oct 27, 2015

I really like it. The use of language is incredible and I can relate so much to it. I love how you made it brief and descriptive at the same time to grab the reader's attention.

It made me feel a lot better as a person by reading it. You have a true gift of writing and how you connect with people. Thankyou so much for sharing it :)

Keep up the great work! - TheDarkWriter.

Hey! I'm not that good! But, thank you for your kind words! ^^
And, oh, I need to talk about narrative poetry and photography sometimes!

Talk to you, I mean! :3

Your welcome! :) and of course we should talk about narrative poetry and photography sometime, can't wait! :)

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unluminescent
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unluminescent wrote a review Review · Oct 25, 2015

Hey Mia! I really like what you've written, so here's my two cents:

This piece is really easy to relate to, and I think that's part of why I like it so much. :) I feel like a lot of people (teenagers, especially) feel this way when things are going wrong. I could even take it a little deeper and say that this is the epitome of what depression feels like.

I felt broken, unloved, unwanted
even though I knew I wasn't.

I like this line, in particular, because I feel this way a lot; sometimes you feel like you mean nothing and you are nothing, even though you have dozens of people telling you otherwise. You've done a great job connecting with your audience.

Some part of me wants to escape
to forget, to forgive everyone
to wake up with amnesia
to go far away from home.
But again, some part of me
wants to stay, to fight, to win.

This excerpt is lovely: you expressed a lot of emotion in just a couple lines. So, I commend you on that! In order to evoke even more emotion, I would recommend using stronger words. In the beginning, you used very strong adjectives such as shattered, splenetic, angry; near the end, you start to use simpler ones, so try to spice it up a little bit!

The ending is perfect- ending this piece with a positive/ominous note is just what it needed.

You've done a great job with this poem! Keep up the awesome work.

-unluminescent

Thanks for the awesome review, mate! Yes, I've got some lacking with word-developing so, I'll be working on that. :)

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irenemami commented Comment · Oct 25, 2015

Short and simple, it was really good!

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tintomara138
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tintomara138 wrote a review Review · Oct 24, 2015

Hello!

The poem is really good, especially message-wise. You wrote a poem about something that happens to everyone - self-doubt and self-loathing (some people surpass these things, some people don't), which makes the poem easy to relate to.

When it comes to the form and the vocabulary, I like the repeated usage of the infinitive, which gives the voice of the poem this firmness of purpose it conveys throughout, and also a rhythm.

Being a person who likes the macabre, the depression, and the death, I was (personally!) a little disappointed in the ending. But looking at it objectively, it is a good, healthy ending. A strong person who won't give up.

All in all, I enjoyed reading it.

Keep on writing!

Thanks for the response! :D



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