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CareBear3
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since 2000-11-20
Posts 39
New Hampshire

0 posted 2000-12-10 09:54 PM




a picture perfect taken
a moment stilled in time
a night never to be forgotten
emotion preserved in mind

forgotten through the years
turned yellow on the edge
stacked away in boxes
once lost along the ledge

a love promised forever
died within a year
a desire once uncontrollable
lost without a tear

a night up in the attic
the boxes all unpacked
revealed a night to remember
piled among the stacks

a night full of passion
sealed within a flash
rekindled an ended love
and renewed a love to last

a picture perfect taken
a moment stilled in mind
a night never to be forgotten
a love outlasting time




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Songbird
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since 1999-12-15
Posts 2184
Missouri
1 posted 2000-12-10 10:02 PM


I really like the way you expressed your emotions in this poem. He must have been unforgetable, perhaps a first love?
ChocXstacy
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since 2000-12-03
Posts 6

2 posted 2000-12-11 07:11 PM


   I like the way this poem pulls me in.  What I like most is the way you frame the poem between the first and the last stanza which are almost alike(you switch the placement of "mind" and "time") but just dissimilar enough to add that extra something... Very nice.
   However the flow is broken a little for me when you start the second stanza with the word "forgotten" after just having used it at the end of the third line in the first stanza.  I'm not sure why it struck me as odd.  Then again, it could just be me.  

sexyILN
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since 2000-11-20
Posts 29

3 posted 2000-12-11 11:24 PM


Wow! You use your words well! That was awesome!
Now for the critiquing part. (I hate this part!) I think I agree with ChocXstacy about the "forgotten"s in the first and second stanzas, but for a different reason. In the first stanza, you say that the night would never be forgotten, but in the second stanza, you say that it was forgotten through the years.  But other than that I loved it.

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Wesley the Blue
Member
since 1999-09-02
Posts 426
Forest Lake, MN, USA
4 posted 2000-12-12 11:26 AM


Good piece.

I agree with the others. I also think that rhyming could improve the flow greatly.  You rhymed the second and fourth lines in the second and third stanzas, and to me those are the ones that flowed the best.

Keep up the good work
KM

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