Soft Echoes

<p>This is a nice love poem you have written, and I hope you will continue to write and add to the site. I have&nbsp;a few observations I would like to share with you about your poem (poetic matters not emotions). First, I wanted to mention something about the rhymes, such as dove/love and you/true. Writing with rhymes is a rewarding challenge, but if you allow them to &quot;take over&quot; your poem, then you have&nbsp; a problem. Did you really want to say &quot;a dose of [your] love&quot; or because it simply rhymed with &quot;dove; did you really want the line &quot;I couldn&#39;t be&quot; to rhyme with &quot;It&#39;s beating you see&quot;? There are a few (unavoiable)&nbsp;cliches here, such as &quot;beating heart&quot;, love &quot;like a disease&quot;, soft &quot;as a dove&quot;, and I feel that if you find phrases that are different from the phrases that automatically come to mind, than you can be more original. Remember, poetry involves imagery, but this imagery should be seen in the reader&#39;s mind not from the poet telling them what to see: &quot;I am conflict...&quot;. Describe conflict, do not say I am conflict, because everyone is conflict, but they are not all poets rights? Read other poems on this site, if they sound similiar to yours, than ask yourself how you can make your piece more effective. Q.V.</p>