[Valentines Contest Entry 2017] Poem for my love

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Hi there,

First time poster here.
Since the rules said that poetry is also welcome, I would like to submit my poem. It's called: Poem for my love
Thanks for reading. Hope you enjoy it.

Spoiler:

A poem for my love

My heart is yours, your heart is mine.
We're both thief's, but that is fine.
Our hearts beating as one.
With feelings as fire,
burning longer than the sun.
We are too blind to see.
In our eyes there's is just you and me.
Both trapped in our minds, chained to the soul.
You're the only one I wouldn't eat if I were a ghoul.
Two fires merged together, no control.
Chocolate melts and flowers are burnt into ashes.
This fire can't be tamed with candy for the masses.
The inferno aimed all at the internal,
because our love is for eternal.
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This could have benefited from at least one more edit. Some errors in there.

I usually find poetry difficult to give feedback on. It's very open and subjective. For me personally, this poem does little to catch my attention. It feels very by-the-book for a love poem if that makes sense.
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d(^_^)(^_^)d wrote...
This could have benefited from at least one more edit. Some errors in there.

I usually find poetry difficult to give feedback on. It's very open and subjective. For me personally, this poem does little to catch my attention. It feels very by-the-book for a love poem if that makes sense.


Yes, it kind of makes sense. I'm using the same metaphors other poems have used. So it doesn't really stand out.

Thanks for your feedback though! I appreciate that though.
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leonard267 FAKKU Non-Writer
A poem for my love
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While I have to say that I don't appreciate poems as much as prose, I still believe that like prose, poems ought to convey stories or events. In addition to telling readers how intense your love is, why not include why you ended up in love? That would certainly require some storytelling. If you are able to make sure that each line rhymes then all the better.

The poem feels like one of the better pop songs to me but that isn't saying much because I consider most pop songs in the West to be horribly written these days. If only we can put a tune to this though.

I think d has pointed out some of the grammatical errors like "thiefs" ought to be spelt as thieves. I will go through the poem and spell my thoughts on this:

Spoiler:

My heart is yours, your heart is mine.
We're both thief's, but that is fine.


(From here, I think you can elaborate with another line why that is fine.

I was thinking something around the lines, "For what from each we stole, makes both of us feel more whole.")


Our hearts beating as one.
With feelings as fire,
burning longer than the sun.
We are too blind to see.
In our eyes there's is just you and me.

(This part needs a transition from the previous part on stealing hearts. A connector like "as" should be alright. Redundant "is".

Perhaps,
"As our hearts beat as one,
Fuelled with passion burning longer than the sun.
"

might sound okay to you as a connecting line)

Both trapped in our minds, chained to the soul.
You're the only one I wouldn't eat if I were a ghoul.
Two fires merged together, no control.

(These lines sound off of course to me because of the word "ghoul" and talk about eating which doesn't sound romantic.

What do you think of these lines?

"Both of us of one mind and one soul.
A flame burns in us for all to behold
A flame that none shall ever control"
)

Chocolate melts and flowers are burnt into ashes.
This fire can't be tamed with candy for the masses.
The inferno aimed all at the internal,
because our love is for eternal.

(Why mention melted chocolate and burnt flowers in a romantic poem? "Aimed all at the internal" doesn't make sense to me. I would end the poem with:

"And let that flame engulf us
And let that flame last
For that flame is our love embodied"