With Pen in Hand

Hi FAITH!!..... there's nothing like sitting down to a fresh sheet of paper......I love it.....I still write EVERYTHING in notebooks before I put them on line.....there's something about holding a pen that is unrivaled...... anyway, I understand the sentiment behind this write and I agree with it wholeheartedly!! ~

Good job delivering the aabb rhyme scheme here!!......ALL STARS!!...... enjoyed!!...... LOVE and ROCKETS!!........T xo ??✴??✴❤?
               

Hello Faith,

I very much enjoyed your poem & I also agree with your methods. 

Excellent,

-Chariot

This competent work has a pleasant tone to it, being neatly constructed. However, meaning and message is lost by this method with reading of the piece lacking cohesion and sensible systematic understanding. If it was vocalized at a recital to an audience there would be less of a concern though a re-draughting might be necessary to aid the vocalization process.
The work is clever in design, though giving basic fundamentals only of thought transferred to the page. Little time is given to emotion or feeling or reasoning which I note other poems of yours lack. Poetry is passion NOT just technique ( says he !! ). I get the impression that more experience on this site would be preferential to your development as a writer or poet.
Welcome to the learning journey in hope of better things to come !!  :)
Wishing you all the best in your endeavours.

Take care.
:)

Hello, Faith.
Ya know, when you find something at which you're talented, you do it (whatever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes are ready to fall out of your head. Even when no one is listening (or reading, or watching), every outing is a bravura performance, because you as the creator are happy.
Perhaps even ecstatic.
That goes for reading and writing as well as for playing a music instrument, hitting a baseball, or running the Boston Marathon. If you feel you need permission to do all the reading and writing your little heart desires, then perhaps becoming a published author isn't for you.
The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease and sense of intimacy with the process of writing; one comes to the country of the writer with one’s papers and identification pretty much in order.

with pen in hand it is a gift
to touch the people's hearts you lift,
to share a story, words be told
my pen in hand will not grow old.

Constant reading will pull you into a place (a mind-set, if you like) where you can write eagerly and without self-consciousness. It also offers you a constantly growing knowledge of what has been done and what hasn’t, what is trite and what is fresh, what works and what just lies there dying (or dead) on the page. The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.
Exceptional writing, take care.
~Dean ツ