Hi thegoldenbird,
Mailice here with a short review!
I didn't think I would come across such a poem when I read the title. It put me in a bit of a short story when I read it, and like the bottom line is that the story here has a general outcome that could be made for very many wars. Let's start.
As the war broke out worldwide each young man was dragged out to fight. Bombs, missiles and un-nameable terrors shook the very earth, causing great tremors.
I love your first paragraph here. It seems like the beginning of a story, so I was surprised when I realised it was a poem. It develops more after that with the second, third line, and I liked that the rhyming comes more from the sound of the pronunciation than just reading it.
The masses, with utmost hopelessness, left their homes for peaceful lands where every man was given shelter; homes became refugee camps.
I like the general criticism you make here and it sometimes seems very extreme in the choice of words. I think you create a rather one-sided view of the war and the destruction, partly blaming the instigator. I like that on the one hand, but on the other hand you also build up a kind of "ignorance" of the second party.
Irrespective of all divisions all got food and a place to sleep- and in that moment of world war there coexisted world peace.
I like the way you show a kind of neutrality in the conclusion of the poem, where one notices that you want to express that wars exist as well as peace and that a long-lasting world peace will eventually lead to war and so on. You describe the whole poem like a comparison with weeds that grow in the garden and you remove them, but a few weeks later they grow there again.
It's a simple but good poem, with a good ending.
Have fun writing!
Mailice
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