Lonely Dreams.....
A small dream, can become a light in the starry skies.
O, A Starry Sky, so bright and calm.
Flowing so calmly as you dream in tightly curled ball....
As your dream begins, you feel lonely, causing a small beautiful dream, to become dark and sad...
Soon tears stain your rosey cheeks, and your small pink lips quiver....
Beginning and the ending.... when you awoke that next day, you blamed the poor, lonely dream, but in your heart... you know it was your fault....
A Lonely Dream becomes a brightened star at the end of the day....















Critiques
Starting from the premise that every word should be doing something, working hard, in poetry, I'd cut-compress-condense. As an example, "O, A starry sky, so bright and calm./Flowing so calmly as you dream in tightly curled ball" might become, "O, A starry sky, so bright and calm/ flows gentle as you dream, tightly curled." The words have added power because the flow's not broken be extraneous words. Equally, my example's lost the repetition of calm.
Think about line breaks - I like the unequal lengths, I think that aids the dreamy nature, but especially "Beginning..." loses impact because of the length of the line, try a line break at "day,/you" and "dream".
Having huffed at repetition before, I think the Lonely Dream repetition towards the end is effective in emphasising the positive that comes from the experience, and having a single lined stanza to close adds to that impact.
Overall I think that it's a piece that's got great potential (including for submission), if you tweak the structure slightly, and I especially like the fact that you're taking a quiet, slightly maudlin moment and somersaulting it to a positive experience - one the reader's bound to recognise. Good work.
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