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PiXiEpUnKeR
Junior Member
since 2001-06-06
Posts 49
IL, USA

0 posted 2001-06-08 12:10 PM


Fresh cut blades
and pear colored leaves
uncontrollable laughter
and running from bees

Shoot down the ramps
and jump from the swings
run with the squirrels
and feed every bird that sings

Cool beads of sweat
"Mommy, just a little more!"
"We stll haven't decided
the winner of the war!"

Attack from the slide
hide on the merry-go-round
Sooner or later
She's captured on the ground

Rolling amongst
the beating down heat
"Kids come on! It's time to eat!"

The was left at a draw
they jump over the logs
an undecided victory
forgotten for hotdogs


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hush
Senior Member
since 2001-05-27
Posts 1653
Ohio, USA
1 posted 2001-06-10 11:46 AM


I think you have a really good idea with this, but it could use a bit more innovation and structural freedom. This would do better as more of a free-verse, I think (but I'm anti-rhyme in about 90% of all poems, so my opinion is biased   ) I really like the idea of the recollection of childhood here, and for the most part I think you have a good solid base, but not enough detail. If you have to keep the rhyme, I would eliminate the short 4-line stanza structure, and use longer lines w/ rhyme occasionallly thrown in... I think that usually works better than the ABCB structure.

If I had a soul I sold it
           for pretty words

-Allen Ginsberg

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