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Anonymous asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 1 decade ago

Could you leave some feedback on this poem I've written.?

Please keep in mind I'm a 13 year old boy. Nothing to harsh. And yes, I wrote it all by myself. It's my favourite.

It's called The Darkness and The Light.

The day full of energy,

Full of light and life.

The green grass, the blue sky,

The busy rush of the world.

As the day turns to dusk,

Clouds roll over and the sun begins to set.

The picture perfect painting of the soft glow,

Is the lull before the storm.

As darkness slowly surrounds my world,

It consumes all around me.

The darkness damaging and destroying,

And I despise it.

The lightening flashes violently,

Casting ghostly shadows on the ground.

The thunder roars deafeningly,

Drowning out all sound of hope.

The demons within each person come alive,

Eating away at innocent souls.

Trying to get away from my own,

I run.

Running faster and faster,

Running blindly through the darkness.

The thunder booming and the lightening flashing,

Stumbling and falling as panic rises.

As I run from my demon,

The rain pelts down.

Each individual droplet trying to calm me,

But all eventually drip off, leaving me alone.

Still I run in the darkness,

I know all too well whom I’m running from.

But what troubles me is where I’m going,

And what I’m going to do when I get there.

But through all the lightening and the thunder,

I hold onto one hope, one trust.

That the world will see the light again,

So I don’t give up and I keep on running.

The darkness intensifies, leaving me gasping for breath,

As the thunder roars louder, the lightening flashes quicker.

The wind starts howling like a wolf desperate for blood,

And my demon continues to chase and hunt me down.

I run faster, terrified that my trust in the unknown will not be sufficient,

What I’m hoping for, what I’m depending on won’t deliver.

I struggle through the darkness as my panic deepens,

And I realise that my demon is closing in.

But then I see it, that one small sign,

I rush forward, giving it all my strength.

Then I realised what I was looking for,

I realised I was searching for the light.

Then I felt a tug and realised my night wasn’t over,

My demon was close, I could see it through the darkness.

Full of lies, guilt, betrayal, greed and hurt,

I could see it so clearly.

So I fought it with the hope of what was to come,

But it was a lost cause, I was finished.

My demon full of lies, betrayal and hurt had come to destroy me,

The darkness, thunder and lightening surrounding us.

But I managed to glance away from my demon within,

And I caught a glimpse of the most beautiful thing ever.

As the light pierced the horizon all fears vanished,

I had finally found what I was searching, hoping, trusting for.

As the miraculous bright sun began to rise,

The thunder and lightening disappeared instantly.

As it rose higher and higher into the sky,

The demon that had tormented me all night long disappeared.

As the sun rose higher still, the dark clouds rolled away,

And the bright, clear blue sky opened up again.

The perfect green grass lay everywhere you looked,

And the atmosphere was as peaceful as it had ever been.

The birds chirped and the crickets called,

And all was full of energy, life and light.

As I forgot about my absolutely horrible, disturbing night,

I also forgot what had saved me from that horrible fate.

My world full of energy once again,

Full of life and light and happiness.

My beautiful world alive again,

All because my hope had shown up.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I have absolutely no harsh words. It is very well thought out and written and because your only 13, it shows that you have a lot of talent that will grow into something mindblowing one day. Thanks for sharing this poem and keep up the excellent writing!!

    By the way, it is not too long.. its your thoughts and a nice story that makes you think.

    Source(s): Unearthly
  • 1 decade ago

    This was very nice. As well as length, thats not a problem.. aslong as you got everything and every detail you wanted to get out, remember its YOUR poem, you can make it how long and short you want. I write poetry as well, here is a web site that may help you out inthe future on other poems

    http://rhyme.poetry.com/

    i use that sometimes when I can't think of words or when I can't rhyme something together, its a very big help.

    By the way keep writing, never let anyone tell you you're not good enoguh, because this poem alone proved to me and many others on the internet that you havea talent, and that is a talent that you SHOULD NOT let go, imagine how you'll be inthe future!! Keep writing!!

    Source(s): my brain
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Bah... saying that a poem is too long is like saying it has too many of the letter I in it. It's really more a case of whether or not all the parts perform necessary functions. In this poem, there are maybe two transitional stanzas (the ones with the word 'still' in them) that aren't doing a whole lot. But I wouldn't say it's a huge deal.

    Overall, this poem is extremely well-written for a thirteen-year-old. Hell, it's extremely well-written for the Internet. =P Please keep writing. You have a lot of promise, and your poetry is only going to get better. Oh, and the lightning you're referring to is spelled without an E...and yet you used 'whom' correctly, so kudos on that. :)

  • 1 decade ago

    It's not bad at all a little lenghty you should read it out loud to yourself and look for the things that could create less length and more enrapture to the reader to move the reader into the throws of your thoughts.

    You did an excellent job for a thirteen year old and should be proud of yourself.

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  • This is quite good, specially your thought sequences and images, but some of the lines need to be more "intense" to stir us into your thoughts and emotions. Overall, well done.

    Good luck,

    Lulle Rhymesmith Sonneter Metaphor-coiler

    Source(s): I'm only 16 and no good at critiquing, but I tried my best.
  • 1 decade ago

    Very nicely written. I agree that it's a little long, but in the right format that's all right.

    Good visualization. I like that in any and all writing.

  • 5 years ago

    on a scale 1 -10 12,9999,9999,9999,!!!!

  • 1 decade ago

    very well written.

    its a tad long but otherwise its very nice.

    you've got talent

    Source(s): me
  • i love it. it's so deep. if you really wrote this then you are one deep kid.

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