I like it better without the last two stanzas. More powerful without giving any idea of what's inside.

Beautiful to read. Some awkward lines that don't keep the rhythm. Statha, a well chosen name.

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I liked it. It was very creative and tells alot..

This is beautiful, in a morbid way. It sounds like a myth, of some sort, though I know its not one in the way we think of mythology.

Point-- your poem is beautiful, if very dark. I like it.

Cheers.

Very nice, you've captured the reader from the start. The imagery is grim and beautiful at once, since you use a lot of dark and light imagery; the beast on one side and the flower on the other. The rhyme scheme is done very aptly and fits; the choice of words rarely seems forced. You've managed to stay true to a difficult rhyme scheme and have pulled it off with splendor. A nice sense of myster is also set up for the reader with what Statha really is, and what it symbolizes or what the seed will sprout into.
-Anyway, excellent poem, please do write more.

God, I love your poetry.

Seriously, this is a really cool one, and it reminds me vaguely of The Dark Tower.

Whoa...This is really good! It's so dark and...it sounds old, like an old legend or something...my favorite verse is
"The castle's name, in no tongue known,
Is Statha, and ever
It has reared there, made of charréd bone,
Or the remains of a goddess's throne-
Asleep, asleep forever."
Although the first verse comes pretty close.
Again, awesome poem!

Seeing an SF poem from you made me really curious, since I know that you mostly write fantasy. However, I see many fantasy elements in it.

The sense of the unknown was evident in every verse. I liked the description of the castle, this "made of charréd bone" part. But the questioning on the true nature of the castle was magnificent.

As for the last line... Well, "shivers down my spine" doesn't begin to describe it. It reeked danger all over.

Good work, as always. And thanks for the review.

really nice

i kindof lost track of it twards the end of the middle

but i liked it

Interesting. I like it.

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The Great, the Mighty, the Orc King