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Hey, I know this is a repost but...I'd really love to know IF YOU LIKE THIS POEM!?

Hey!? Just wanted to have some opinions about this. Is it good? What does it make you think of? Imagery? Anyhting to change? What do YOU think its meaning is?

Wherefore art thou?

When spoken in tongues

Of long hair and flaxen hues

Of mistakes and definitions

Of individuality

Fondled and beaten

At the hands of

Voracious youth

Of which you once were.

Let lips do what palms do

Hit and mutilate

Violate

What is spoon fed, swallowed

And hence disposed.

The ideas given and not born

Adopted, not had

Of toil nor sweet sweat

Therefore remaining as bony

Carcasses, ne’r to be filled with

Viral flesh of unfettered

Imagination.

Profaners of this neighbor-stained steel.

If only that is what we’d speak

And not, take from me

The Nasturtiums, and grow woozy

By their scent.

If passion had its play

For one stanza

Of what is the peacing,

Drying, losing life.

I have lost myself; I am not here

Perhaps the only truths

Spilled by the depressed and

Lamp lit halls of vitality.

Taken is the choice, given is

The rose.

Weep not, though we!

Ignorant to giving away

The heart of our timepiece.

Forever a half. Never

To be recaptured

For who are we to fight

When there’s nothing left to fight for?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Wow i barely could understand anything from this heavy poem, 16th - 18th century style but still i really enjoyed it so different from all the other poems you come across on YIA... i liked the second stanza. As to imagery: Therefore remaining as bony

    Carcasses, ne’r to be filled with

    Viral flesh of unfettered

    Imagination.

    this part speaks for itself. I think it's a good poem you have clearly put much effort into it but it's rather fuzzy and vague... remember that you write FOR the (general) reader and that true talent would be conveying complicated ideas and style in a clear manner, but then i like to try deciphering such poem lol :)

    As to the meaning i have vague ideas but i can't make the connection between them mind explaning it?

    Source(s): one thing i don't get: who THE HACK HAS WRITTEN THIS POEM?!
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