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? asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 8 years ago

yes, no, maybe so or forget it, also other?

pull back the skin

let it escape

trapped away wandering

is this returning

floating in suspension

a slave to being alive

repeat until it doesn’t

there is nothing to be added

taken away in fragments

those times when it stopped

lost is the best virtue

not in direction but progress

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    8 years ago
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    I would say no forget it. This is just random statements, they say absolutely nothing. I have no idea what your trying to say.You have used good words, and phrasing, But pull back the skin on what?What stopped, when did it began? what is it? Where are you trapped? When people read poetry they do not want to guess and wonder what the poet is talking about. Poetry has to say something not just statements that are random and doesn't say anything. Poetry is not to impress with far reached ideas and use of words or to show intelligence, It is to share with others how the poets see and feels about things. I see a tree i would describe it in infinite beauty as a living thing. You see a tree you might see it as just a tree.An experience of perhaps seeing a wood pecker pecking for beetles on a tree trunk how he behaved and how it made you feel to watch him. See what i am saying. Take your talent and write us a good poem about something that speak with the power of your feelings.

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