I always wanted a pen
one of those nice ones
probably, made of wood
inscribed with my full name
adorned with a simple feather
fluttering across my words.
.
But, the best works
the works that breathe
that have a life and a heart
a mind of their own
are those scrawled upon
a dirty napkin
in sloppy font
probably, in an ugly green
crayola crayon
stolen from a kids menu.
.
The best works are
painted onto tear stained paper
with clumpy, runny mascara
and sprinkled with broken dreams.
.
The best works
hit us hard
right where it hurts
right when it hurts
because art makes no sense
and like life
it's beautiful
at it's most unrefined.
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Hey, Catalyst here for a review!
I'll be perfectly honest with you-- I'm usually not much for poetry. I dip my feet in from time to time, but when it comes to reviewing it, I usually steer clear of these works.
That being said, you're probably among the best poets on this site if this is any
thing to go by.
More than anything I loved the context of this poem-- Not only does it carry a profound message about life and writing, that message is made clear without seeming on the nose. It's there, but not mired in symbolism and "deep" lines. In many ways, the poem itself is unrefined, and that's what I like it for.
So this is a fantastic piece of work-- But that aside, I do have a few nitpicks.
"probably, made of wood"
This line seems... off. Maybe it's the structure, maybe it's how it doesn't exactly fit with the preceding sentence. I'd replace it with something like this.
"Made of wood, perhaps",
This would emphasise the speaker day-dreaming over the pen, instead of just sort of idly speculating, as the original line implies.
"probably, in an ugly green"
Nothing inherently wrong with this line, just the repetition stood out to me. Intentional, perhaps-- I wouldn't know.
"and sprinkled with broken dreams."
This line just seems a little too overt, a little too un-subtle. It took me out of the poem a bit.
Overall-- Fantastic work, keep it up and tag me for your next poem!
Hello! DragonNoir here for a review!

I really like your poem! It's very effective with the theme and structure you used and the concept too. However, you did make a few mistakes on the way. Don't despair! Everyone makes mistakes!
Firstly, you always start a stanza with a capital letter, but you don't start a new line with a capital. A poem requires this, at least from what I've been taught. Secondly, I think you made a spelling mistake on the last line, which could count as two mistakes, because the last line is supposed to hit the reader the hardest; having a spelling mistake lessens this effect majorly. The mistake you made was with the apostrophe in "it's", when I believe it's supposed to be 'its'. You only use "it's" when you are using it as a contraction of "it is", while "its" is used as a possessive pronoun.
On a more positive note, I really like the contrast you make with starting a very sophisticated notion and moving on to ones which are more basic and almost 'lower class'.
Overall, I'd say this is an amazing piece of poetry, but you could work on capital letters and "its" and "it's".
I hope my review helped!
Capitalizing each line is not required, most if not all punctuation and syntax choices are the artists choice in non-formal poetry.