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Would you care to offer comment/critique on this poem?

"Into Heaven Vanish"

Tell me where you go,

shooting star.

Sing of streaking past the planets

bearing dreams.

I am near out of wishes;

my plans are long since spent and turned to dust...

I have dance for kings and gypsies,

kissed knaves and princes both,

spilt tears before a goddess,

and felt the touch of Death.

What more need have I of wishing,

keeping drive and hope and faith?

My only prayer is innocence restored,

my only wish that war remain a hell.

Promise me your confidence is strict,

promise me my cries will go unheard...

for tomorrow I must smile again,

and strive to change this world.

Update:

Stanza 3 Line 1 - *danced*

Apologies for the typo.

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    I delight again in your vision and syntax.

    This is the essence of ennui but there is, hidden and denied, still a core of hope. I infer this in the last stanza because these protestations, in their overwrought desperation, actually belie a jaded lack of emotion. Ans this, of course, is absolutely clarified in the final line.

    I have one small suggestion. That last line is somewhat jarring in it's deviation from the previously established flow.

  • Farmer
    Lv 5
    9 years ago

    First poem I read as I check back in..

    My most favorite writer..

    And whoosh!

    A shooting star!

    Too cool.

    Evadne, your poems do change the world.

    Your view from the shoulder of Angels is amazing.

    Thank you!

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    ? ?A possible dance upon the souls of blades and glory, ?A deepening of what seems revenged and sanctity, ?yet, rounds out with readability of reason, empowerment restored, ? And for there who go thou blade in hand, ? For Kings and Dragons reasonable command, ?? Rebellious as all destiny and chagrin, ???There be no relax yet chaos whom enter motel, ..

  • 9 years ago

    You have inspired me to attempt a poem about the grape-sized meteorite I recently discovered at the gravel pit. I wonder if it has any wishes left...?

    Great last stanza, btw.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Yes, your mission is a daunting one, and your poem? A haunting one.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    brilliant.

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