Recently i hired one writer who writes poems . I am thinking to make collection of her poems an sell on amazon as kindle ebook to USA audience . Please evaluate her skills as per USA market . Here is one of her poem :
HELPLESS HEART
My heart resides in an endless pain,
Therefore stirring anxiety into the rain;
Showering from the clouds far above,
Making many realize the power of love;
Although its over and ended forever,
Poor heart makes useless endeavor;
To be loved once again as before,
And never get shattered anymore;
Someone should make it realize,
How much it hurts to memorize;
The moments that have been spent,
With somebody's heart that was on rent;
But now has been occupied by its owner,
Leaving mine hopeless in a deserted corner.
Feedback of your all guys welcome . Thanks in advance
This is very bad poetry, which is not to say you won't be able to sell it. Given the sort of stuff that I see on Hallmark cards these days I'd say you have a good chance.
It is metrically uneven. The lines don't follow any real rhythmic pattern, even loosely.
She uses weird syntax that is clearly chosen just to fit the thought into the line, for instance
"My heart resides in an endless pain,
Therefore stirring anxiety into the rain"
There are cliched turns of phrase all over the place, e.g. "the power of love", "the clouds far above".
The diction is needlessly archaic in places. "Therefore" is no longer part of common speech, but a technical term used in argument. "Poor heart makes useless endeavour" contains an unnatural elision that sounds outdated.
The grammar is bad. "It's" is a contraction. "Its" is a pronoun.
The imagery isn't really imaginative.
The rhymes do not flow naturally from the thoughts, but seem to have been picked because they fit with the previous line.
The theme is hackneyed. You would really have to be a great poet to do anything worthwhile with this material these days, because it's been done to death for centuries.
Here is a great poem by Seamus Heaney for comparison.
My tongue moved, a swung relaxing hinge.
I said to her, ?What will become of us??
And as forgotten water in a well might shake
at an explosion under morning
Or a crack run up a gable,
She began to speak.
?I think our very form is bound to change.
Dogs in a siege. Saurian relapses. Pismires.
Unless forgiveness finds it nerve and voice,
Unless the helmeted and bleeding tree
Can green and open buds like infants? fists
And the fouled magma incubate
Bright nymphs? My people think money
And talk weather. Oil rigs lull their future
On single acquisitive stems. Silence
Has shoaled into the trawlers? echo-sounders.
The ground we kept our ear to for so long
Is flayed or calloused, and its entrails
Tented by an impious augury.
Our island is full of comfortless noises.