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Wonders of a Moonlit World

As breaths cascade across icy glass

And foggy blooms spring upwards,

Trace your finger,

Wet, along the edges.

Draw a smile over your hiding face.

Don’t forget a pair of eyes

Through which you can see

A glimpse of sacred stillness,

Silver by the stars’ faint glow.

Such an ineffable sight divine,

Seen in frames, frozen in time.

Spotted with thick brush and high pine

So one can never fully know

Its wonders.

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dark
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dark wrote a review · Sat Apr 11, 2015 3:09 pm

Hi there, hermione! Dark here to review this excellent pome of yours. I apologize in advance, as I haven't reviewed anything in almost three months. (I'm very rusty.)

So, first I'd like to point out the punctuation at the end of (almost) every line. I haven't read what others have said, but it probably would work better if some of them were removed, you know? Like here where it says,

"Trace your finger,
Wet, along the edges." or

"Don’t forget a pair of eyes,
Through which you can see
A glimpse of sacred stillness,
Silver by the stars’ faint glow."

The pauses were kind of awkward for me while reading. I know everyone does things differently, but that's just a tin issue, I thought I'd address. Other than that, I don't see anything worth correcting.
I gotta say, the poem really flows nicely, as far as your word choice. I pictured myself in the backseat of a crushing vehicle, while a downpour pounds on the roof, drawing in the condensation on the window to pass the time. Maybe that picture isn't what you intended, but a vivid picture in my head is a sign of a good poem.
Keep it up, and I enjoyed reviewing your poem, after such a long time.
~The shady one.

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Morrigan
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Hi there, Hermione!

I really quite enjoyed reading this. You do a good job of creating a pause in time and showcasing it.

That being said, it can be improved with a few changes.

The first thing I noticed is that you have punctuation at the end of every line. Now, a lot of poets have lots of different ways of doing thongs, and some do choose to punctuate the end of every line. In this poem, however, the natural pause when you're reading it out loud does not always come at the end of the line. This is perfectly fine, but your addition of punctuation creates pauses that mess up the way the words are put together. To fix this, try reading it out loud to yourself without line breaks and punctuate it like you would if you were punctuating prose. When reading poetry out loud, you don't pause at the line breaks, anyway.

Here's a nitpick for you: I would take out "shallow" in the first line because it doesn't really add to the poem. In fact, it made me wonder why the person in the poem was breathing shallowly. It's a question you raise that doesn't need to be answered. If that makes sense.

Overall, I quite enjoyed this! I hope this review proves useful to you! Happy YWSing!

Thanks for the review! I will try doing what you said and punctuating this poem like prose.

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Mea
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Mea wrote a review · Fri Apr 10, 2015 11:31 pm

Hey there! Here to review your work again!

This is really pretty. I love poems like these, that seek to capture a small moment in time.

Shallow breaths cascade across icy glass,

Foggy blooms spring upwards,

Consuming all warmth.


So, your poem starts off flowing well. It sounds good. However, your third line is confusing. I don't understand how condensation on a glass can "consume all warmth."

Also, then when you transition into talking to the reader, it's slightly jarring. I'd recommend deleting the third line entirely and making the first three lines part of the same sentence, like this:

"As shallow breaths cascade across icy glass,
and foggy blooms spring upwards,
Trace your finger,"

Or you could do something completely different, it's up to you. ;)

Throughout which you can see,

"Through which" would probably work better.

Its wonders-the wonders of a moonlit world.

The one other issue I have with this poem is the last line. I'd recommend taking out the second part entirely. From reading the title, readers should already know that this poem is about a moonlit world, and that and the repetition of "wonders" just makes it a bit repetitive, which is not what a last line should be. Something short and sweet like "Its wonders" suffices perfectly. :)

Anyway, other than that, gorgeous poem! I'm rapidly becoming a fan of your work.

Thanks so much for your helpful review!

I was wondering, how do you do the neat little quotation mark thingy on your reviews?

Ah, that. It's simple really. You just type in this (without the asterisks, those are only there so it doesn't actually make it a quote):
[quote*]Whatever you're quoting[/quote*]

For more codes you can use, visit here: The Big Book of YWS Codes

Alright, thanks for the help.



You'd better wise up, Pony... you get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothing can touch you, man.
— Dallas Winston, The Outsiders