I run a pretty large poetry sharing site, and thought I'd ask the YA crowd what kinds of features they find most useful :)

Chats? Customization of poems? Fast responses? #Views, popularity, that kidna thing? Free poetry courses? Contests?

We do most of these things but it can be overwhelming, so it'd be nice to highlight the most important features...

-Mother-

I cry myself to sleep again,
Dissatisfied with who I am,
But who did I have to follow?
Someone superficial and hollow,
A mother on a diet,
Causing me this internal riot,
You'd drink your weight loss shake,
Telling me how you hate your shape.

So I'll cry myself to sleep again,
Dissatisfied with who I am,
You forged a river in my mind,
Who's poison water made me blind,
The mirror I hate,
Is that what made your self confidence deflate?
When you say your ugly,
It stops my heart abruptly.

So I cry myself to sleep again,
Dissatisfied with who I am,
So I'll skip this meal,
And pray these cuts will heal,
Everyday I check the number,
Denying the persistent hunger,
Counting down to perfection,
You passed to me, your misconception.

So I cry myself to sleep again,
Dissatisfied with who I am,
I'll hide my body,
Knowing I'm nobody,
Ashamed of being me,
I hide, not letting anyone see,
Mom, I know you hate the way you look,
That was the flaw I took...

(p.a)

Thank you :) xx

Not really. It's made up almost entirely of abstractions like "bully," "abuses," "insults," "pride," "anger," etc. It would be much more effective if you would "show not tell": give us a specific case of an abuse, of an insult, of anger, without actually naming the abstraction.

The more sensory details (things you can see, hear, touch, taste, smell) and the fewer abstractions, the better. There are almost no sensory details in this poem, which is one reason it's not very good.

OK, so the guy is carrying a basket which is (according to him) full of butterflies. Some guy -- either a criminal or a cop -- comes up to him and demands to look in the basket. He pries it open with his pick. So: what is going to happen when you open a basket full of butterflies? They fly off, right? So the last sentence is a metaphorical version of that.

Also, "customs" here refers to tax collections, not to social norms. The original Spanish word in the poem is "Consumos" (which refers to taxes).

So, you now need to decide what the other connotations of that metaphor are, besides the actual flying off of the butterflies.

I need help with an ending of this poem I named "Thantos"?

Pools of blood puddle around you like a river trying to find its way back to tidal waves
Death lies upon you like an untimely frost turning caramel skin into a bruised blue
You lie in front of me, slipping away into the past on a bridge I cannot cross
Breath is drawn from you
A flame snuffed out by a gentle breeze

Good film makers.
Answer to your comment Steven Spielberg.
Just a small sample of his work from Wikipedia.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Jaws
Jurassic Park
Lincoln
Munich
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List