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This Lovely Rose
By eyes.dont.smile
25 February 2008

This has been in my head for a while..I think it's fragmented thoughts; the lack of capital letters is intended, brains are messy places...


he brings you flowers to surprise you

gets all addicted and thinks this girl is some amazing life affirming thing

after the novelty wears off he’s left coping with ‘crazy’

i think i could settle down but i need to go a bit mad first

she said ‘he seemed to think having me watch him and his housemate play videogames was acceptable’

i said i would kill him for you

i want the best bits, i want the perfect life, i want what we used to be

this lovely soft focus image in my head, a rose-tinted picture of us having two gorgeous children and being a proper family….

 something i always lusted after

i can't live in a house where everything goes back on its hanger at night

too much too  young

 for blissful domesticity

i cried. he said 'there's no point crying.. because it's true'....
and then i cried some more, because it WAS true

but now i'm worried, as i haven't cried yet.

see if i live okay without him, being with him all the time.

even when i'm thinking the hardest i'll still think in cliches

i want to be listened to... i'm a spoilt little child

im drinking wine, from a tumbler, with a straw.

try not to get too down

it WILL get better

Reviews

Written by Fledermaus (3246 comments posted) 25th February 2008
A bit too vague for me. I appreciate it that in the introduction you explained things a little, for otherwise I would remark that this isn't poetry, but then, it probably just doesn't fit somewhere else. 
 
What I thought was most unclear from this was wether your narrator was male or female. At first I thought of a jealous ex-boyfriend or some guy she wasn't interested in, then a female friend of another girl, again jealous, then perhaps the girlfriend herself... 
 
Yet whichever of those three interpretations: It seemed to radiate a sense of jealousy and frustration.

Written by Bottleblondesurfer (3331 comments posted) 25th February 2008
As you say; fragmented thoughts,but I think you should have done more with them. I'm not sure they constitute a poem in themselves. I'm sure others will disagree but it seemed more like source work for a poem than the finished thing.

Written by NathanRoberts (277 comments posted) 25th February 2008
It's stream of consciousness stuff and a little insight into your life/mind (I'm guessing it's autobiographical) and for that I welcome it.  
 
I do like it's honesty and openness, but I'd like to see you structure it a bit more, a bit of editing ... 
 
Unlike some of the poems I've found on here, it's not something I'd want to read over and over again....I have enough random thoughts of me own to cope with ;)

Written by Phil (6683 comments posted) 25th February 2008
Interesting, but frustrating. While some of the individual ideas create an image and some interest, as a whole it is still very messy. Okay, explained in the intro - I think Jane's suggestion of source material was a good (and generous) one. As it stands, I couldn't call this poetry - but there are ideas contained that could be knocked into shape.  
 
Phil

Written by eyes.dont.smile (1 comments posted) 25th February 2008
Hmm.... interesting comments. I'm very aware there is no structure there, but I think, really, that's the point. At such an emotional time you don't think structurally, logically.... You're confused and such thoughts just flit through your mind. I'm loath to call it 'poetry' myself; it doesn't fit to the typical poetry form. It's ... confusing, basically.

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