This is the best poem at the moment? Can't people get past the cliched metaphors and some frankly naive writing. I mean, keeping your heart under 'lock and key'? done a thousand times before, Crystal, 'you have mastered quite a feat' - ? That's what the queen says to people who have climbed a mountain for the first time! Funny how 12 of the 16 10 votes are anonymous, isn't it? -5-

this was a time in my life when I was torn between two relationships, I didn't quite understand why I had to choose, such as we all have to

Um, all those anonymous 10 votes are the same person, right? I mean, they're you - the author. I know I'm new to the ranker and everything - so could someone explain something to me? Why would someone submit something here, ostensibly to open it up to the criticism and commentary of the world (which any good poem needs, especially if you're William Blake,) and then jack up its score like that? Do you login and say, oh look - a lot of people sure like my poem; it must be pretty good? Do you actually fool yourself with that? Or have you posted this only for OUR benefit, since you (times 10 anonymous votes) know it's in its perfect form already? The 16 tens this pretty unoriginal crap got is your way of letting us know how great we should think you are? Whatever gets you off, I guess. Have fun with your invisible coterie of imaginary followers. Oh, and this -http://www.poemranker.com/poem-details.jsp?id=79164 - is for you.

flying reptile (pinkish or darker).

I agree the last line can (should?) go. I found it jarring. I also don't think the inversion in st. 3 is necessary/desired, although I'm the last person who should be telling someone not to affect a poeticism, lol.

I have found the name of names! Baptized in blood, may this poem be known as Scarlet Wyvern!!!

Is God invisible, as the Hymn "Immortal, Invisible" claims? Discuss.

I'm alright with the inversion. Kinda sexy.

Something tells me this is much deeper than it seems

pretend i gave you a 10.5, cuz this is better than most of the perfect poems out there

top notch, true and mildly amusing

ego-check, asile -=Dark_ Angel=-, thats ego-check, asile -=Dark_ Angel=-, keep writing man

a rebel in a wheelchair, thats awesome dude

pure awesomeness

it's a pretty good, random poem, and it's funnier than hell reading what all the anti-poetic jack-asses (horus, poetandknowit, dark angel, lastobelus ) who can't write say about your stuff

no angel is better than a light angel, my quasi-yoda friend...please don't take that as a bad thing, never stop writing, cuz i like reading what people say about poetry they don't understand, 'tis quite funny, I give you an 8

You've been writing for awhile, and this is what you've arrived at?

By the third stanza, I wanted to go back to the first one, and stay there. 4

Now that was about as stimulating as watching a caterpillar take a shit on a leaf, but with less leaf and more...

I like the hips part. Never heard talk about hips like that.