Stairy night
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Hi smiley, you should put a poem into one of the critique forums, you will of course have to critique others poems before doing so. It's difficult to give critique at first but it's a really good way of finding out what makes a good poem and therefore you become a better poet.

Firstly, did you mean 'starry' night? 
You start your poem with a statement, 'It feels like flying with a broken wing' without the reader knowing what it is. Flying with a broken wing would be extremely painful so we can only presume that it's torturous experience you are comparing. The rest of the poem does not clarify the statement and the mention of 'love' confuses the matter even further.
Be careful of getting lost in the rhyme and rhythm of a piece at the cost of a clear meaning.
I feel like the middle two lines are filler. If you take them out then you are left with.
 
(02-15-2026, 08:47 AM)Smiley Wrote:  It feels like flying with a broken wing
Hinting at a message of love
Which becomes a more interesting image. Metaphors are stronger than similes so it could become

Flying with a broken wing
Hinting at a message of love

Then it becomes how you can frame it differently. As a sentence the summary could be.

'If I were a bird with a broken wing I could still fly to you because our love is so strong'

then how do you write that as a short poem?

Work with and see what you think.

Cheers for the read.
feedback award wae aye man ye radgie
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Stairy night - by Smiley - 02-15-2026, 08:47 AM
RE: Stairy night - by Magpie - 02-15-2026, 07:42 PM
RE: Stairy night - by Smiley - 02-15-2026, 07:47 PM
RE: Stairy night - by Magpie - 02-15-2026, 07:53 PM
RE: Stairy night - by Smiley - 02-15-2026, 07:58 PM
RE: Stairy night - by wasellajam - 02-15-2026, 09:06 PM



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