 Leda Swan 2006-01-16 . chapter 1First of all, I really like the imagery that this poem invokes, with the stars, and the flaming flory. It's an interesting point, that parents do have detached pleasure, that sometimes they do dump their hopes and dreams on their children. I have two small criticisms: first of all, your writing is strong enough to stand on its own, so you might want to get rid of the bold, spaced words/capitalized words, because they don't quite fit in. Another is that the language is so pretty until you get to the end..."dump your hopes and dreams on" just doesn't quite fit in with the rest of the poem. Anyhow, I like this...good job! Keep writing! |