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    You may surprise yourself, white camellia, knowing that you actually write beautifully in English. All of your poems, I have noticed, have a mysterious quality of language in them that I find admirable and poetic, in the same way Emily Dickinson wrote, though she wrote and spoke natively in English.
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    "You'll outlive me." You said.
    I shaked my head, refusing to accept,
    Though every word of you I believed.
    We sauntered, softly the clovers bending over at our feet,
    And I wondered,
    Life and death overlapped as love passed.
    With this one, beautiful subject, firstly, and you have a very aesthetic word usage, ideal for this type of free-verse poetry. The grammar, especially with quotation marks, can get a little confusing; I would change the line "You'll outlive me." You said to "You'll outlive me," you said - it further verifies who speaks. Instead of "I shaked my head," I would go with "I shook my head," and rather with "Though every word of you I believed," I would write "Though every word I believed" - just to eliminate a few unneeded words.
    Otherwise, the poem reads smoothly and beautifully, with perfect line-breaks, and, as I said, stunning word usage.

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    Thank you, mono!!!

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    'Every word of you I believed', though it may come out of a nonfluent knowledge of English, is rather a beautiful poetic thought.

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    Poetic thought

    To make a poem, it takes a bird and the sky, and the poetic thought gives strength so that it can fly. When the velvet wings twine in the azure, a mystery will shine.
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