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Evark
My lexica exude confidence like cartels' Mexicans dispute dominance while this rhyme's ever-increasing prominence brings sick-flow and I to concomitance.

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Poem I wrote this morning

Posted by Evark - February 21st, 2008


Just finished it, and it's due in an hour. Took me about two hours to write, I'm sure you all think it sucks, so tell me extensively WHY it sucks. Give good reasons.

It's interesting, I think, to recall past dreams;
remember that link between prompted introspection
and interpretation. Blinking, as all that seems
is referenced in ink and paper's bright reflection.

Thwarted thoughts take, though thinking through this thereafter
tells what to make of latent self's conscious connection.
For sentiency's sake slumber's allowed to deter,
before you're awake, a sudden bodily action.

Never before and never again have I known
a place more contradictory; where your control deems
itself in or without at once. Only one's own
omens ought ourselves offer others. Those shut eye-gleams

are hardest to detect against shut eyes' cover.
Brilliancy does reflect well, internally, as shown
by endless subject selection and just after
memory teminates collection I am alone.

The details are not important here,
as long as setting was lacking fear.


Comments

It doesn't suck, thought it would be nice if it rhymed better.
I find it hard to believe that it really took a whole two hours to throw together though . . .

Every single rhyme in the poem is an exact rhyme. So I have absolutely NO idea what you mean when you say it would be nice if it rhymed better.

And yea, phrasing thing in such a way that things rhyme mid-line every stanza and every other end-line while keeping a consistent syllabic count of 12-13-12-13 isn't something I can do in five minutes. It takes some thought, especially in order to remain eloquent.

it sucks becouse you made it today

and today the antichrist is born

WTF is this shit!!! Hahaha Dam Hippy!!

Ha ha, truthhhh. I'm in a creative writing poetry class.

it's nosense! thats why its sucks

I've previously heard the same said of your mother.

I enjoy it.

It feels familiar though I cannot quite put my finger on why.

I enjoy the content of it.

Well spoken words.

Good job :-)

Thanks! Glad you like it.

Eh, its not bad. It needs a little work.

Here's one of my poems:

Shall the sweet silent wind take my breath?
Surely if it would, it would cause my death.

Under tall old oak, branches shroud the grass,
Time seems to slip away as it must pass.

So breathe the wind, be not afraid!
Under the old oak tree, thine only shade.

Thanks for the constructive criticism. : /

I can't say I like yours. For such a short poem you refer to identical things in identical ways too often. The second line is kind of pointless in that it just confirms what you meant with the first. The metaphor between life and lying under an oak tree is kind of basic, maybe it'd be more interesting to me if you expanded on it much more.

actually, i re-read it and disagreed with my original comment. though i think its missing some commas.

Yea, I noticed after re-reading it that there were a couple places I should probably adjust the punctuational setup. But I did not notice any LACK of commas.

Every other line rymes, sweet.

I'm glad you noticed.