Really amazing imagery - this is the best villanelle I've ever read. The repetition stays interesting and actually adds to the quality of the poem, unlike other formulaic poems I've read in the past.

Wonderful work. I hope to read some of your other poetry once I scrape up a little time.

~Effervescent-Sentiments

I realy like it, how you compared 2 comptely diffrent things and made them have something in common!

extreme mad amounts of gorgeously overpowering imagery, metaphors wrapped in allegories with stylistic devices aplenty. you really seem to know what you're doing :|. i especially adored :

naked and swimming with hair in cascades…

No flick of the tail left vessels unmanned.

All my dandelions are dead mermaids

submissive to the sun, not the shifting shades

underwater or the swirling of sand.

They couldn’t drag me down, not for decades.

very nice. excellence.

I adore this poem, utterly. The rhyme and the imagery do me in, and especially the ferocity of the rhyme and rhythm. You're going in the favorites my dear.

beautiful timeless and unqiue imagery, I love the repeating lines: " all my dandelions are dead mermais, they couldn't drag me down not for decades," its just perfect. The imagery in this is wonderful; a really great poem.

Repetitive, but such a beautiful theme. Interesting voice comes out in this, I really liked it.

This is beautiful. The title is wonderful, the formatting great.

I really good piece of poetry.

The title struck me speechless for a moment before I could even click on it to read it. beautiful. I love it. more than I can say. which leaves me sounding stupid.

*agog*

Villanelles! I *love* this form of poetry, it's so difficult to write and even harder to master. This is fantastic, I love the theme and the lines you chose for repetition, especially the titular one. Really, a+ job on this one.

interesting

Fantastic, man. Fantastic. Among all of the other "poetry" here, few really stand out. Few make me want to review like I jumped at reviewing this.

That said, the rhyme scheme seems slightly awkward to me. Maybe I'm just not reading it correctly. I have no problem with the lines themselves--they're great--but they just seemed to be structured strangely.

Either way, outstanding job.

wow... interesting... confusing at times~~ but the imagery is nice!!

keep writing!

thank you for your help! I'll be redoing that poem now shortly. Like the repition *winks* - ties things together nicely doesn't it?