I'm actually very impressed here. I rarely like poetry, but this was extremely well done.

A masterpiece.

You should write poetry professionally.

That was, to put it simply, absolutely breath-taking! What are you doing writing fan fiction? You could be a best-selling poet! Your style is vaguely reminicent of Edgar Allen Poe, only so much better than that! His poems creep me out, personally, but this was unbelieveable. Adding to my favorites now...

awesome. I loved it, actually. Well done.
-Mlle. Morte

that was so sad...but I loved it. =]

Chilling.

Let's just say that I hate poetry and that I LOVED this piece. I have a great deal of respect for anyone who can write a good poem and I especially loved the "chorus" when it spoke of the northern myths. *Click* Favorited

Please don't take this the wrong way if you happen to not be a fan- but I think that your beautiful poem is reminiscent of the work of Edgar Allen Poe; both in style and in quality. I love his poetry, and yours has that same softly dark quality that I so admire in his work. This is, without a doubt, one of the best pieces of fanfiction that I have ever read! I am in awe of your talent. There is just no way to tell you how wonderful this poem is. It's...perfection. Brava!

~lenore

That was amazing. Beautiful, dark, morbid, heartbreaking, and just...utterly...amazing.

Oh my god. This poem has got to be one of the best I have ever read! You truly do have a way with words. I was enraptured with it from the moment I read the first verse. I bow to you, you are truly an amazing writer. Please keep up the fantastic work. Bravo.
~Midnight Tango

Oh my goodness!

This is just amazing. It's rare for me to find a really great poem like this. Let a lone for Phantom. I love how you sweep this poem with myths and such. It's so wonderful.

Oh Gondolier...

If there was ever an injustice in the universe, my darling, I’d say that it’s the fact that this had to share the top spot in the last morbidity contest. I mean, the throne was meant for you and you alone. Never has any writing of yours been more deserving of praise and recognition. (This is saying something, considering how heartily I have humped Fraternité over this past year.) One never knows what to expect out of these morbidity contests, and I sure as hell didn’t expect this kind of creativity out of you.

You are good, woman. But HOT DAMN and crackers, this is truly fantastic.

The verse is perfect. So absolutely perfect. And it isn’t necessarily the rhyme or the rhythm, either. I mean, if the phan community has taught us nothing, it’s that any jackass can count out the correct time of a meter and sort of make their sentences rhyme. (Though really, I’m giving them way more credit than they actually deserve.)

In the case of your Nacken, I think it was the complexity of the poem that so inspired me. I say inspired because it is writing like this that provides me with the inspiration to become better at it myself. (*wink and grin*) The language is absolutely astounding, not so much for its intricacy and sophistication, but for how appropriately you’ve used it. One of the difficulties a person can come across when writing poetry is establishing a particular mood without the benefits of a detailed narration. Here, you are telling me a story with a very limited set of words, and yet the terror Christine realizes as she descends into the catacombs is as brilliantly laid out as in any other written narrative.

Example:

Sanctus did its summons sing,
Leading her to the depths of hell.
Shadows stretch’d like devil’s wings
Thru endless paths; she tripped and fell
O’er cellar rats and unknown things,
‘Til death hail’d with its silver smell.

Richly engaging the senses, and delivered without pages and pages of useless description. THAT is talent, dear Gondolier. This is, hands down, the most gorgeous phantomy poetry I've had the privilage of reading. I can't help but stand in awe of it.

*stands in awe*

You are an absolute treat to this community, my tiny watercraft. I love you. I admire you. I adore you. That is the phantomy-cookie way of things. *mwah slobber mwah*

Simply amazing! I have always liked what you write, but this is awesome!

Brizilliant. Really.

Is the Nacken, by any chance, related to the Cracken?

Wow. Just...wow. I don't even know what to say. That was simply amazing.

Wow.