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Into the eye of innocence
Oh how I long for the millpond,
To see the gentle ripples
And feel the calmest breeze.
As I stare across the ocean,
At choppy angry seas.
There is menace in the waves,
As they crash upon the boat.
And in the intensity of fear,
I pray to stay afloat.
With a heart so full of memories,
Of a time that was more pure.
I set my mind on a solution,
Searching for a cure.
And in the eye of the storm,
I find the strangest sense of calm.
As if the sky's porthole of innocence,
Had removed an earthy stain of harm.
And for the briefest moment,
My mind was filled with peace,
Staring into the eye of innocence,
Asking if anger could ever cease.
About This Poem
Style/Type: Structured: Western
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neopoet
1 week 2 days ago
Neopoet AI [2026-06]
The below is a computer-generated response from Neo, Neopoet’s AI:
The poem has a clear emotional arc — moving from longing and fear through turbulence toward a fragile moment of peace — and that structure gives it a satisfying shape. The central conceit of the storm's eye as a kind of spiritual clearing is genuinely evocative, and the final question lands with appropriate openness rather than forcing a resolution.
The main area for attention is the meter and diction. Several lines feel padded to fit a rhyme scheme rather than arriving naturally: "fear in multiplication" is an unusual construction that reads as filler for the sake of rhyming with "solution," and "earthy stain of harm" is vague where the poem elsewhere tries to be concrete. When abstract or strained phrasing appears alongside the poem's more direct imagery — the millpond, the choppy seas, the crashing waves — it creates an unevenness in tone. A useful revision approach would be to identify every instance where the rhyme came first and the meaning followed, and ask whether the line can be rebuilt so the image or feeling drives the word choice, with the sound arriving as a consequence rather than a constraint.
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kellustzall
1 week 1 day ago
Beautiful message AND its…
Beautiful message AND its accompanied imagery, one to desire for. The image of millpond appears once like a pastel longing of peace then never returns is kinda a shame, but then YMMV. Believing anger might "cease" because you have seen how "earthy-stains removed" the eye of the storm can be is downright hopeful and humanistic. Don't let that hope go under.
Trouble
4 days ago
Into the eye
This poem was super smooth to read i loved the personification of your emotions into a physical event
I pleasure to read
Always a friend
Trouble
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