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Would you care to offer comment/critique on this final poem in a series?

"Journeying to Truth

Part the Third"

"I bleed upon this paper,

but cannot thaw my soul,

I want to change this universe;

I want a world made whole.

Where metal hands are not a gift,

pain uncommon not the norm,

where tragedy is fantasy

and anguish never borne.

I want a new beginning,

an end to what now is,

this is no poem, it's a prayer and

all that I can give.

Forgive me, strange companion,

but I can write no more,

I must go change this world I see

with neither pen nor sword."

I threw aside the paper,

left the quill upon the ground.

No one need ever read my prayer,

my hopes need not be found.

I turned away from silence,

left secrets there to lie,

the answers aren't important now

for there are tears to cry.

New hopes and dreams must be embraced,

and Love must become known.

I turn from silence,metal drips;

I hear the crack of stone.

Part 1 - http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AkuPT...

Part 2 - http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AhCKj...

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
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    I did this the proper way and went back to the first, reading them in order, and was rewarded with a completely profound and heartstring-strumming event. This should be played under an amphitheater of stars with an orchestra playing soft winds and strings, flutes and clarinets might perform the heretofore unreferenced synesthesia of sound to touch that I just experienced reading this.

    That's it. You are the High Priestess of poetry, My desire to be able to write something like this yet NOT...to become just as intricate...well, let ius just say that I know from experience that this will begin to show in my work soon, greater effort at putting knowledge with the fire inside that drives me as a poet. I usually just pour what is in out and it goes right as is with typos and a few bad lines here and there. I am going to do my first drafts in MSWord and edit, from this day forward.

    Thank you for helping me consciously define a goal.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    I learned to believe in values, and be a proud human being.

    Very good poem. Some souls probably received your blessing and friendship.

    Some others didn't.

    But do immaculate persons need any blessing, to be bestowed to them?

    The answer is 'No!' (Odd but philosophically true.)

    So we smile to philosophers and gallivant on a knoll.

    You write very well. I hope you see truth equally clear.

  • 9 years ago

    I begged the gods for wisdom;

    they turned my heart to stone.

    Transmute it into flesh once more,

    all secrets will be known.

    I hear the crack of stone.

    I see hope concealed in a masterpiece.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    I hated to read the part about throwing the pen down

    ... NO NO NO!

    a poets work is never done

    only when they put their head in an oven or

    worse...

    and no no no

    not my dearest ... nope

    the writing must go on

    the poem can end

    but the journey is only beginning

    very well

    it is finished!

    (NO)

    it's not

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    The idea comes a cross well. It is a little coarse, but it really grabbed my attention. Very interesting!!! Overall, I'd say good poem

  • ?
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    emotive words strung together in a meaningless jumble, sorry, does not work

    may work if you edit down to the heart of it - not easy, and no criticism intended, this sort of thing takes ages to refine.

    good luck

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