Because it is brimming with wisdom and beauty -10-

Thanks. :)

Okay. You've wiggled out of it or in it. I'll let you alone now. And yes it could be seen that way.

Hmm. I think I see what you're saying there, but it really doesn't seem out of place to me. The rainbow of all these tomorrows is hope (ish), so it in that sense it does happen before the tomorrows happen, and is thus present, and directly related to the tears, though not actually reflecting from them; it would be reflecting _in_ them.

"And where is the rainbow of all these tomorrows" implies something good after the tomorrows. "that glistens in tears I hold in" is present tense. Of course you could say "tears I will hold in" but really, is this a good line of thought?

I suppose I'm not seeing what you're saying with s4l1-2... could you write out what you would see as the results of your suggestion?

I found the word "forwards" in only one of my three dictionaries, and it shows it as a less-preferred form of "forward." And please look at the first two lines of verse 4.

Thanks for the comments--my understanding is that 'forward' and 'fowards' are rather interchangeable, as 'toward' and 'towards', though I've seen arguments about both. Thanks for the comments--I know the angst of angst poems, but sometimes you (I?) just "have to do them", as much as I hate that. And I'm far too much of an attention-hound to write a poem and not display it for feedback; sometimes I really wonder where my ones and twos are. [[that's not a request, though!]]

Thanks for the thoughts; I'll let them percolate some. :)

Whatever.

Why does it deserve a ten?

Yes, I saw this "Terza Rima" category sitting in the form menu, all alone because it had no poems for company. The poor thing was so dejected and depressed that I took pity on it and decided to give it a poem to spend its digits with. Now I know that it's not entirely Terza Rima (Terza Rima it typically much longer and has no couplet at the end, but I don't have the patience to write a whole Inferno's worth, though my translation of Canto I of the Inferno is in the works) but it'll do for now to help the category live happily ever after

kudos, mr zodiac.

Yes, I suppose something that "merely enrolled in yet another new school of guff" deserves something less.

because it doesn't deserve a nine