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Songbird
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since 1999-12-15
Posts 2184
Missouri

0 posted 1999-12-28 12:41 PM



         The View

It was a beautiful day
So they say
The sun was warm
But I couldn't feel it

The sunbeams froze
When they touched my heart

Now the day is done
And it's like it never was

For I walked alone
In another land
Where clouds hung low
And spoiled the view.

© Copyright 1999 Marcia Estep - All Rights Reserved
Trevor
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since 1999-08-12
Posts 700
Canada
1 posted 1999-12-29 10:17 AM


Hello,

I found this entry a little too vague and light....perhaps a little cliched as well.

"It was a beautiful day
So they say
The sun was warm
But I couldn't feel it"

What does your version of a beautiful day look, smell, feel and taste like?

"The sunbeams froze
When they touched my heart"

Too light, not enough depth for the theme.

"Now the day is done
And it's like it never was"

Again too vague.

"For I walked alone
In another land
Where clouds hung low
And spoiled the view."

Perhaps expand on your theme. What was your land like, why did the "clouds" hang low? Why and how were you hurt?

Thanks for the read, take care,
Trevor


Songbird
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since 1999-12-15
Posts 2184
Missouri
2 posted 1999-12-29 11:03 AM


Trevor, thanks for the comment, I just wanted to see what kind of reaction I would get to an older poem I wrote several years ago when I was in severe depression. I guess it is vague because that is how the world appears to you when you are in that state of mind. It is really out of focus. Have a Happy New Year!
dispatch debbie
Junior Member
since 1999-12-29
Posts 16
Michigan
3 posted 1999-12-29 12:34 PM


Certainly expresses the cold, emptiness of depression....stark.  It is hard to expound when in this state but I, too, would have felt it stronger with just a little more.

 Treat others the way you wish to be treated.

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