woa this is wonderful...you did a great job in making every line rhyme! it sound so nice~what most important, every lines use such simple words yet very meaningful! and so true~~adding this into my favourite~~kudos~~

wow:O I just really don't know what to say, you have left me breathless. This tugs at so many different emotions in me. Great job!

"What is love?
An excuse for lust?
Or just a word for gaining, someone's trust."

That is my fav. verse! You're rhyme scheme is beautiful and original, and displays a great poet. Nice Job!

wow this is really good! wonderful job! keep writing ;)

great poem..! i love the flow of it, very well written. great work. :D

What is love?
I thought I knew.
But I never knew love, till I met you.

...aww thats lovely =]

"Is love a whisper carried from a bird?" BEAUTIFUL!

I like the repetition of "What is love?" It really illustrates the ineffability of love.

I really enjoyed the concept, this poem flows well and I just adore the rhyme. Overall, great job!

interesting take and formatting. repetition usually bugs me, but because of the extra two lines in each stanza, the poem didn't seem too repetitive. the rhyming scheme was nice and well done. i also like how you managed to incorporate the bad and good aspects of love, sort of like the ups and downs of life.

nice job :]

and thanks for your review from a while back

My favorite is the first line, I think. The ideas are cool, and a lot of the verses are well written. I agree that some of the lines seemed more to take up space than really convey meaning. Still, good job.

this is potent and dark. i really hope that didn't happen to you. but to quote Disney "someday your prince will come." he will don't worry.

first of all, i apologize i added this to my favourites. i hit the wrong button. this new way of doing everything on facebook is so confusing!

so although it didn't actually make my favourites list, this is really good! although i'm not a huge fan of the repetitiveness the idea is good, and something i can relate too.

nice start!

ah yes.

Hello there, Unique!

You've got a really lovely poem right here, you know that? Honestly. What absolutely thrilled me about this piece is that you can see the narrator grow throughout the poem. First they are naive and curious, simply wondering what love is and how important it is ("Is it just a word? / A whisper carried from a bird?"). The poem grows dark as it describes the girl's rape and her feelings of fear and repulsion towards the idea of love, which she has come to believe means something vile and senseless. Then she slowly comes to discover that love is something precious and grows strong with time. I'm not sure if the "New one in [her] life" is a baby or simply a boyfriend or something of the like, but either way it's absolutely beautiful. I hope I read into it properly, but that's what I interpreted it to be.

The stanzas were nice and structured, which I liked. The repeated questions tied it all together. If the meter was better, I'd say it helped the flow - but, as it is, I can't tell you that. Sorry. The poem was a bit uneven in places. My advice is that if you're going to make a rhyming poem, make it either like a spoken word poem (something like a rap without the outrageous music; essentially, a lot of rhyming in the same line and the like - look it up if you're interested) or make the meter even. If you hadn't tried to rhyme, it would have made the flow a lot better, but in this case I liked the rhyme and I wish you would have simply fixed the meter. In any case, that's something to work on for next time.

You used a few extra commas in a couple of places, but that was nothing major. I don't think I've got any other quibbles to mention, actually. Great work! I really enjoyed this piece - it had a lot to say.

Thanks for the great read. Keep it up!

~Wren

my favorite verse was the third one. i thought some of the lines were just there to make the poem longer, but most of them reached out to me. nice job and thanks for the review