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? asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 10 years ago

How would you improve this poem, I found it, then lost it?..Then found it again?

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smile,

the alternative is sparse

a semi circle sloped

sliding off your face

night time in it's brevity is

beckoning me now

though dreams

and settled sleep are

nought

to find

I wish that you were here to see my face

the words you wrote

and absolute disgrace, I saw them

and I wondered at your

haste to lay a friendship out

with words so terse

and

I remembered how it used to be

and stronger now

I have broken free.

Not one word

you can say

will damage me at all

as I have found

the ground is not so far

to fall

... I give this mess of words to all to read

and hope that you

will insanity or

something else to plead

good night

may dreams bring comfort to your soul

and know that I

consider you an

*** hole

but pay no mind I love you any way

and in my prayers

I weave you every day

sweet dreams

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Update:

It's not my poem....

Update 2:

Dallas..yes I am glad not to have a friend like this

Neon...Bingo!! on the meta4

but I'mma keep it up

for my friend who wrote it.

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    "consider you an a@sshole"....never made a poem any better...this started out well, and just became a rambling rant...so what is the point?...it lacks discipline and focus...

    Hundreds of crappy poems assail our senses every day on Y;'answers...how tedious! I think, with all that to sift through, a poem that doesn't attempt some kind on internal rhyme or at least rhythm is hardly worth evaluating.

    If the author could have duplicated the rhythm he set up in the first verse, which was very good, he would've had himself a poem.

    "Free Verse...Schmree Verse!" --- Granny Crabtree

  • ?
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    Stanza 1 intrigues the reader, giving a gentle

    push to Stanza 2, a declaration of meaning

    that urges the reader to continue.

    Your friend is a gifted story teller.

    The poem has the needed momentum

    and descriptive elements that make

    this poem very interesting.

    Your friend is certainly talented.

    Perhaps some revision, rewording would tighten this poem up a bit.

    On the whole, very good.

  • 10 years ago

    Hi liz, whew glad it isn't yer poem.

    Um I might alter a couple things in S 2, like even some internal rhyme, and now I wonder who this may have been directed at?

    Best for me was the last.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    Hmmm. I know people like this. It is hard not to think of them as animated ballistic gel.

    But, I seem to catch a hint of wishing well for those who do evil to you. Sounds like granting unasked for forgiveness, even though you know the bad guy in the scene doesn't care.

    Very interesting thoughts.

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  • 10 years ago

    Cut everything from

    "... I give this mess of words to all to read"

    down.

    If not cut, then at least rewrite. It comes off

    as a bit trite after an expression of emotion.

    The 'mess' represents a state of mind

    and it actually does a pretty good job.

  • 10 years ago

    Maybe this is worth losing again, but as always, just my opinion. And wishing sweet dreams to an a s s hole seems to speak of a metaphor! lol

  • doe
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    And stronger now, I have broken free-- I like this poem. Generally when I'm spittin mad my poetry sounds too hateful and I feel like apologizing after. Tell your friend I like her style.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Hi Lizzy. I am glad some find this poem a masterpiece.

    Well, I am not a critic of such magnitude and kinda

    feel out-gamed by them. And they agree, too. Wow!

    I agree to Neon. You should continue losing the

    masterpiece.. Κρίμα.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    As I live and breathe, I have found poetry nirvana..

    Mine eyes have read the glory..I can die now..

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    I like

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