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? asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 1 decade ago

Comments on the poem please?

Mage Camp

Three million words on newsprint

For good or ill to the cast of players.

Stories of low adventure

Summoned from a mirror

And high ideals taken from a dream.

Songs of friends long dead,

Foes dead sooner still,

And friends lingering in woe.

Poems of what has been,

What might have been,

And what may still come to pass.

Prose to solve the mystery

Of what builds a self

Over long changing years,

And a double handful of fairy dust.

Update:

42. Somebody already did it Oakwolf.

Update 2:

YAP? Yep!

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  • 1 decade ago
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    The history of the written word in fifteen lines. That's impressive condensation. Maybe in your free time you can write a one-line equation that encompasses all of mathematics. :)

  • 1 decade ago

    Hmm....it's interesting. But as a poet, here's what I have to say:

    It doesn't really tell a story or even convey an emotion.

    It's just a bunch of pretty poet lines strung together. I think you could take a few lines and expand on them, and really tell a story. For example:

    "Three million words on newsprint

    For good or ill to the cast of players

    Held by men of the city, the forest, the water

    One man

    Praised forever"

    Good luck & you have some really awesome lines in there!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Does YAP count as mage-camp?LOL

    I have always felt poetry had magic in it.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    What is a mage camp?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    impressive work! i would suggest it to add on poemish.com also

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