A sincere thank you.
I just want to thank you whole heatedly
thank you for giving me something no human knows they want until they have it in front of them.
New perspectives, insight, wisdom.
I just want to thank you dearly.
for gifting me a desire i had no idea i could have held.
For gifting me a humbling, a truth, and... an insurmountable task.
I just NEED to thank you... but in your eyes you've done nothing for me to be thankful.
A sincere thank you. to a beautiful woman, the likes of which i have never seen. For every word that held meaning and every letter you penned into your book and breathed into my soul for me to learn! Thank you.
For starting a fire in me i dont think i will ever be able to extinguish i thank you.
but
for showing me what a real woman is. i doubt i could ever forgive you.
https://www.reddit.com/r/OCPoetry/comments/87fmqk/so_i_just_started_writing_poetry/ https://www.reddit.com/r/OCPoetry/comments/876nhv/maybe/
^ poems ive attempted to critique
Thank you for reading.
Posted Mar 29, 2018, 11:02 PM UTC
There seems to be an inconsistency in your capitalization here, (this is more grammar than poetics), but at times you capitalize on new sentences, other times you don't, and you don't seem to capitalize your "i"s, which might be a stylistic choice, but if not should probably be done.
There is also a great variation in your line length, which makes the poem flow weirdly. The second line especially is quite run on simply as a sentence on it's own, and could definitely be split into 2 lines. Perhaps also add a comma to make it feel less "breathless" to the mind. You could also make the 5 lines before the last take on a more "poetic" form, to give a better flow to the poem, and to add more of an emphasis to that which you're saying.
I feel like the period between the last two sentences is strange, as the first sentence of the two doesn't feel to be a complete thought, and the two sentences feel as if they should be linked. I also don't entirely understand what you're trying to convey with "showing me what a real woman is", are you implying that because she's shown you the way some woman can be amazing, you'll never be able to accept another ever again? That meaning I found to be hazy.
these are the comments i appreciate the most, thank you. Originally this was supposed to be formatted differently with different line lengths and proper spacing between certain lines. Umm but to be completely honest i wrote this on a whim and didint pay much mind to grammar. I know I should but i suppose i wanted to remain ignorant.
Thank you though I intend to really think about this comment in my further writings.
and yes the meaning in the end holds many different forms, some of the meanings are more specific to me and others are more universal. I suppose it could use some touching up.
It would be interesting to play around with an ambiguous meaning at the end, it would allow for readers to project into the poem, whatever you fancy though. The grammar was just me being nitpicky, a lot of people sometimes just don't capitalize stuff, and sometimes the best poems are written on a whim :)