I'm a poet and I like to write, but lately I haven't been satisfied with

Tammy

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what I've written. Any tips? One of my poems:

Though it may not be at once
It happens.
Every one of us looks up
We look into the same sky
You may see it through different eyes than I do
And you may not look when I look
But the sky we look into is the same

Once sky over us
You and I look up into it
and the same stars are there
And the same blue-black velvet is behind them
Different days
Different times, but I know it has happened.

You and I look up and see identical portraits of life
When you tilt your head back
and look through made up eyes
Your moon is full
When I do the same, my eyes are clear
And my moon is crescent
One sky. We shared
Now they are two

My stars rest on a black night
Yours rest on a blue night
I was wrong.
We don't share one sky,
Now we don't share anything.



Please be honest, but not mean. Thanks =)
 
stanza 3 fails as a transition, therefore the conclusion in stanza 4 comes off as whimsical ('less that's the effect you were aiming for).

as for quality, no opinion. cute idea, developed well in the first couple of stanzas, then the poem dies for me.
 
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