Dark Flower

I like your poem, thanks for sharing. It makes me think of a toxic relationship personified in a dark flower.

If you want some critiques, one thing I might mention is that you use the word "it" quite often. For example, in the line "but all I wanted was love from it", you could probably just drop the "from it". Also, "is" should be "was" in this same line.

I like how the speaker knows that the flower with sicken them, yet goes for it anyway. It makes for a more complex relationship dynamic, and hints at some repeating themes in the speaker's past, perhaps. I guess it makes me think.

Thanks for sharing. I am pretty new to poetry but I hope my critique was somewhat useful to you.

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I really like the imagery with "this dark flower burning the ground pit rises from". For some reason I image a person tied to a tree while black roses rise from the ground and as they get closer they start dripping magma which starts to burn the ground. I didn't really like how it flowed, but other than that i enjoyed. Great job.

I take it this is about nicotine addiction or am I projecting?

I enjoyed this, but I would change the 3rd stanza to be more matchy, opening with "this dark flower" again, and then the opening of the final stanza something like "now, why did this dark flower"