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John asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 3 years ago

Could someone please critique my poem?

Apprentice

You need a mad life to prepare

the militantly hip.

To deal with chaos tools are rare,

it takes some time to get a grip.

The city is the last frontier

between the heart and humankind,

but you have there all needments near

if out of mind you'd yourself find.

A working student athlete poor

and major in some arcane art -

that life would be the choice of fewer

than I can think - and a good start

if madness fun were to explore -

so you would maybe long years on

return where you had been before

to pique love's faithful since the dawn,

to be a colorful old salt

where love's a smaller younger field -

then love's ubiquity t'exalt

though peers to disillusion yield....

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  • 3 years ago
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    you got me at lines 7 & 8 (for some unaccountable raison d`etre)

    then I found I like the entire thing dammit

    having spent some months on the high sea as a child

    which was excellent preparation for sometimes finding myself quite at sea

    I give you this one ^"^ & no the salt ain`t lost its savour, nor saviour (obviously...).

  • 3 years ago

    okey dokey robin

    il show yall the ropes

    i want to teach men

    the sense of their exsisstance

    which is the superman

    the lightning out of the dark

    cloud man

    you know the rest

    though peers to disillusion yeild.....

    Preistly vestments show, in accentuated form,

    all the features that have been shown to be evidence of a servile

    status and a vicarious life

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