Have you known misery?

[LorettaYoung]

Have you known misery as many have before?
Is darkness an old friend, kept buried in your past;
Was there a time in life that you let your heart soar
To find another dream, had smoldered into ash

darkness, misery, past, time, life, dream

these are all vague abstractions. poetry is built on concrete nouns.

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Hi Cyferz: I like your abstractions, anyone with introspection know darkness, misery, dream, etc. But misery is a large topic and in a longer poem you would have to reveal things in nouns to be understood. For instance, what can you compare to letting your heart soar; the reader wants to know more. Loretta