I paid a very small fee to get a review from Typishly Literary Magazine so I could get a professional opinion and maybe some pointers. This is what the editor sent me.
"We're grateful you chose to share your creativity with Typishly. This is very lovely: 'visited only by those few who yearn to feel the loneliness of the ghosts left behind...' Quite liked the echoing 'p' sound: '...hops, hoping against hope...' Intriguing: 'Teeth are so like husbands, she muses.' (Typo: 'scarred truck' should be 'trunk'.) You're a good writer. Your themes are large, heavy and challenging: battlefield ghosts, macabre ravens. For fun, you might want to spend a couple of weeks writing 'smaller', more personal poems as an experiment, to see how you feel about them. What do you see with your unique poet's eye as you go about your normal day? What small details do you observe? Did you see an unusual person on the sidewalk? What was she wearing? Didn't she realize there was a yellow '50% off' price tag on the hem of her jacket? Why did she select that neon purple backpack? Can you guess where she was going in such a hurry, and why? You get the idea. There are observational poems all around you, just waiting for you to capture them. They're good practice, too."
The poems being mentioned are, in order, Whispers of War, Maligned Raven, Preparations of a Lady, and the typo mentioned (fixed it, lol) was in Queens of the Forest. These are all still posted on this site if you'd like to go find and read them. I'd like a review from you, too! Feel free to share a link and help me get more readers/subscribers. It doesn't cost you anything and I really enjoy having others read my work. Thank you!