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hiddensmiles
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at the beach... i wish

0 posted 2008-04-16 10:31 PM


(sorry if there are spelling mistakes)

If you dont like me
thats ok
just at least
have the guts
to say it
to my face

dont go lieiing
about me
to those guys
if that makes
them like you
its just fake
anyways

so if you
have a problem
with who i am
or how i look
dont go to
your normal
ways

and just to let
you know
it makes them
think your
jelous anyway

JJ

[This message has been edited by hiddensmiles (04-18-2008 12:40 AM).]

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Jaki H
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1 posted 2008-04-17 09:30 AM


haha! i like it! it has a kind of innocent, young feel to it and is so different from the typical overdone wording in modern poems... good read!
masksrlife
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2 posted 2008-04-17 05:11 PM


Is this about me?

*-crazycece-*

hiddensmiles
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at the beach... i wish
3 posted 2008-04-17 06:32 PM


why do you say that?

JJ

hiddensmiles
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4 posted 2008-04-18 12:39 PM


jaki: lol thanks!

JJ

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5 posted 2008-04-18 07:40 AM


Whoa! nice one. you said few words but said so much. great job!

~Zach~



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6 posted 2008-04-18 11:56 AM


WOWWWW JJ, I love this/11 just wow!!
Krysti

Earl Robertson
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7 posted 2008-04-18 07:16 PM


Very nice, simple. I like simple things some of the time. Simply Beautiful

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Bob K
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8 posted 2008-04-18 07:50 PM


Dear hiddensmiles,

          Pretty good.  I like that you are straight from the hip and don't try to get fancy.  

     Why you would expect somebody like this to speak to you to your face though is beyond me, and though I'll bet you'd like to have heard it, you wouldn't really have expected it either.  That's why I'd like you to consider taking out the last four lines of the first stanza.  Your giving the guy a canned and pre-processed talking-to and while that may be all HE deserves, your poem deserves better from you.

     When you go on and talk about how you don't want him (the Bum, I mean) to go around lying about you to those guys, what would happen if you played around with giving those guys some names.  They don't have to be real names.  You can make them up or even not do it at all.  Sometimes lists like that can be a lot of fun in a poem, sometimes they just lay flat on the floor and look up at you with uncomprehending and bewildered blue eyes, and mutter "Why are you doing this to me?  Why me?  What did I ever do to you?"

     The good thing about writing is that you don't have to show those things to anybody though.

     If you can get a list going then you could say...

To those guys,
Burt, Bart and Bill;
they're fake as you.  

     The last couple of stanzas give me some problems with my ability to follow the sense of your words and my sense of the ending.  I confess this is probably me.

don't go to
your normal
ways

doesn't tell me enough for me to understand what this Bozo may be up to, and what he's likely to do.  Buy spray paint or ammunition; whisper sweet nothings into another girl's ear, or tear off a guy's, or spend the next month at home moping.  If you want to include lines of that sort, I need not to be pulled away from this lovely piece by questions I'm asking myself in my own head.  I want to stay with the words on your page.  Do you see what I mean?

     I played with it a bit and came out with another way of writing it.  It may or may not be what happened, but this is your poem, you can make it come out any way you want, can't you.  You can tell any truth you want to tell, whether it's the truth that happened or the truth that the words want on the page.  Anyway:

Just to let
you know,
If you
have a problem
with who i am
or how i look,
it makes them
think you're
jealous anyway.

     I've seen first drafts of poems by professional poets that weren't as good as this one.  Just keep writing this stuff and putting it out there for folks to read.  That's half the battle in itself.  Yours, BobK.

          

RenaissanceRomanceRunsRed
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9 posted 2008-04-19 05:48 PM


Oooooooooooo I like what Bob said about giving them names, but whatever suits you. It was nicely straight forward. Good job Smily.

-Kate

and in the daylight i miss the nightmare- but deathly fear it in the dark of night

Belinda
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10 posted 2008-04-20 07:31 AM


I really enjoyed it.
it was simple but I think that's partly what made it go great.
Good write.

Belinda~*

Expect nothing, Prepare for anything.

hiddensmiles
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at the beach... i wish
11 posted 2008-04-28 12:04 PM


thank you

JJ

hiddensmiles
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at the beach... i wish
12 posted 2008-05-22 05:38 PM


bob k thank you for all your advice!

JJ

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