i anticipate solitude
it used to be
an old friend of mine
we were good mates
about two years or back
until fate allowed me
to meet another soul
innocent, sweet
and ineffably beautiful
it was love, really tender
too tender to stay put
we both drowned—
two entities sucked into
the cracks of time
a storm against which
our unwilling feet danced
we held hands and stayed put
until holding on
And holding those hands hurt
it bled love and it bled sorrow
and thus on a faithful Monday
I let go
i let this storm take me over
fate is bored of continuity
thus I wait for solitude
and possibly someone else
as the transient hours
gently erase me over
and over
until I am no more
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Hi! This is a really beautiful poem, and i'm here to review it today!
This is so beautiful, and the sadness is intertwined between the lines in a way that really draws me in. I can understand the feeling of being friends with solitude, and this puts it into words better than I ever could.
Since you're using grammar, I would put another comma after the first tender. It doesn't actually bother me that you've used tender twice here, I think it makes sense.
I love how the form here mirrors being drown and sucked into a storm, it feels long and breathless like it should be said in one breath because you're holding on and trying to survive. It's really effective.
This is the only place you use capitalisation, which makes it a bit inconsistent for me. I would either use all correct punctuation, which would take away some of the effect, or just the commas and keep it all lowercase for effect. You haven't used any periods/full stops, which makes sense, but since the And is capitalised, it would mean you'd need a period at the end of the line before it, which would feel inconsistent too. So I would just stick to lowercase!
I do like this stanza but it's not quite as strong as the other two. I think the ending of the second stanza is a much stronger ending overall, so I would be tempted to strike this. However, that's only my opinion, so if you really like it, don't do that!
<3 keep writing
Thankyou for reviewing
Minasan! My name's yuuki, I don't think we've met, but this seems like an interesting read, so i'm going to review it. Let's dive in!
So my first thoughts are I love the visuals it paints. I can see the feeling put into this, the imagery is absolutely stunning. you're truly an amazing poet.
I think here, the use of "tender" repetitively makes the poem not flow as smoothly, but that might just be me. I can't judge the poet without knowing what's going through their mind.
To close, I think this was overall very great. I think you could work on word choice a bit, but otherwise, great work!!
arigato!
yuuki
I'll try to improve my vocabulary ^^ thankyou for reviewing
:)