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Rest Your Soul On Mine

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February 9, 5:44am

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113

Last Edited:

April 28, 5:52am

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This poem is about the divinity of creation, and the every looming presence of death...

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 Venus lays luxuriously, and laments,

 whispering in motionless time,

 reflecting her divine shadow

 on waters of primordial flesh.

 Bathing in rapturous rays of reason.

 Undulating in secret darkness,

 vibrancy glows, spreading universal,

 harmonious in color and caption.

 Settles her hands on all life, gently

 to sooth the wanton minds,

 forgotten hearts facing colorless animation,

 lifting them to the warmth of the sun.

 Adoring chaste spirits of true forgiveness.

 Balanced, poised, and ready for angel's work.

 Sleeping on vacant clouds of remorse,

 shaking loose, heaven's tears to cleanse the world,

 of all broken promises made yesterday, now looming.

 Lifting the veil from tired eyes.

 Rest your head on feathers

 Rest your soul on mine

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 Awesome work. You have matched up words with deep meaning and set them against the simple down to earth facts. Kind of like heaven and hell. You get the two meanings that takes you deep in the soul and a deeper feeling as well.

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 Whoa! That was indeed a good poem.  My favorite quotes were "Undulating in secret darkness, bathing in rapturous rays of reason, harmonious color and caption, and settles her hands on life, gently."

I DEFINITELY gave it a 5 out of 5.

Keep up the good work!

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Venus lays luxuriously, and lament's,

There shouldn't be an apostrophe in laments

reflecting her divination,

How can one reflect divination?  Divination means "prophecy."  Maybe you meant "Reflecting on her divinity?"

Bathing in rapturous rays of reason.

I like this line a lot.  Good use of alliteration.

vibrancy aglows, spreading universal.

Aglow is an adjective, not a verb.  You mean "glows."  Also, I think this would flow better into the next line with a comma instead of a period.

forgotten heart's

Again, no apostrophe. 

ready for angels work.

Here's where you should have an apostrophe.  It should be "angel's." 

shaking loose, heavens tears to cleanse the world,

Again, there should be an apostrophe in "heaven's."  You should read this article on where to put apostrophes, it's pretty helpful: http://www.wikihow.com/Use-Apostrophes

Lifting the veil from tired eyes. Rest your head on feathers....... Rest your soul on mine......

Good use of slant rhyme with eyes and mine.  I personally would cut the ellipses (...).  I'm not sure what they add to the poem, and I think it would sound better with periods instead.

I liked it overall.  There's some very nice imagery in there, and a good contrast between color and greyness.  The reader also gets a really good sense of the scale that divinity can take, and (at least I think) how a minor goddess can be a major goddess in her own universe. 

However, I also think that the many grammatical mistakes kind of detract from the work as a whole.  I don't mean to be nitpicky, but punctuation is really important in poetry, and incorrect punctuation really trips up the reader and interrupts the flow of an otherwise great poem.  Take a look at that article I linked, you may find it useful.

 

 

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Venus lays luxuriously, and laments,

I feel like the comma between luxuriously and laments is messing up the rhythm.

Undulating in secret darkness,

 vibrancy glows, spreading universal,

 harmonious in color and caption.

I really like the imagery here, though I'm a bit unsure on the use of caption -- it doesn't quite make sense to me... it could to you though.

Settles her hands on all life, gently

 to sooth the wanton minds,

I feel like you could search for a more appropriate adjective than wanton here... whenever I think something needs soothing, I feel like it is worried or frazzled... and I've never used wanton synonymously with that. Also maybe you could play with alliteration here, such as you did with the next line? It would make the connection between the two even stronger.

shaking loose, heaven's tears to cleanse the world,

 of all broken promises made yesterday, now looming.

I don't think you really need a comma after world.  I feel it gives the reader unnecessary pause in the middle of a line.  That could be your aim... but I just wanted to point it out in case it wasn't.

Rest your head on feathers

 Rest your soul on mine

The overall lack of punctuation in these two lines bothers me.  You've used it fairly consistently through the poem, and all of the sudden it disappears.  It may be okay to skip a period or comma after 'rest your head on feathers,' but to complete the thought there definitely should be a period after the last line.

Overall, it's a great piece of poetry.  I apologize if I was nit-picking, but I just feel that with a few tweaks here and there, this could be even better. Not everyone would agree with everything I mentioned, either , I am sure.  I liked your use of imagery, and the general flow of the piece. So, great job... and keep it up! 

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 Excellent work

vibrancy glows, spreading universal,

 harmonious in color and caption.

I'm wondering if this is missing a noun. It seems that perhaps there is a word missing after harmonious. Or maybe "harmonious" should be harmony. Or "universal" should be universally. And unless the latter is true, I believe that there should be no comma after universal.

Settles her hands on all life, gently

to sooth the wanton minds,

"sooth" should be "soothe"

Balanced, poised, and ready for angel's work.

My favorite line. I'm wondering if you actually meant the apostrophe after the 's'. plural angels'. This is where your work really inspires me. I'm a student of religion, but sometimes I'm blinded to angels by my books (hey, i may write a poem about that....). You have such an inspiring spiritual outlook on life that as I said breathes through your poems into me.

Also, I'm surprised noone commented on your excellent use of alliteration throughout the poem. I do agree that you might want to look at the punctuation again. I assume that your punctuation and lack thereof is intentional, but I would still consider giving it a few more reads with different pause and punctuation. Awesome work!

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