 VanFanel3 2008-04-15 . chapter 1First of all thanks for the review on "What Did You Say?". It's very encouraging.
I hope you don't mind but I'm just choosing this poem to comment more broadly on your poetic work that I've been reading.
As is witnessed to in this one, Angel Dust, you have a great rhythm going. It's very subtle and you're thinking, "Whoa where did that beat and rhyme come from?" and have to read the stanza over again to pin it down. A wonderful aspect of your stuff.
In terms of word style and choice, the style you go for most of the time, you do well. My favorite piece in terms of vocabulary was "Love and Your Embrace". Creative imagery through abstract and abnormal adjectives. Overall though I'd like to see branch out more in your word style. I see a lot of the same ones coming up: sin, black, angel, wings, blood, serpent, dark. While real emotion does come across and the poems are effective, I'd be interested in what you're capable of if you push past that primary form of imagery that comes to your mind.
Also don't be so obvious and blunt all the time. Poetry online is usually used for kids to vent and so finding abrasive poetry is actually very easy and an apathy starts to form because of it. It's unsettling when you can find someone who can imply and not with the images you'd expect.
For a little inspiration, here's one of my favorite free verse poems of all time: Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot. It's shining example of unexpected, quickly changing, yet powerful imagery.
http://w.tristan./quartets/ |