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Ashiraladoni
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since 2000-03-08
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Duluth, MN, USA

0 posted 2000-03-10 09:44 PM


*Brief explanation*: Most of my poems are thought up spontaneously, some times they make sense to people, some times they don't. Whatever I feel at a particular moment in time, I write about it. This particular prose is sort of a narrative of a young girl's life. I hope you like it.
~Ashiraladoni

The days went by without a count
the sun came up, crossed the lonely sky,
and then set again.
That's exactly how she felt. Just going
along in the day, like it was regular routine.
As if nobody cared about her.

Her parents were professionals, gone all day.
Then at night they were gone at some sort of
party for a friend's friend.
They didn't care.
She was an only child,it didn't matter to them
when she came home at 3 AM with vodka on her breath
It didn't phase them when she came home with
a tatoo and three new earrings.
They didn't care.

She sat in her room, her eyes gazing at all the
things that she had once enjoyed.
Her music, her flute, which now sat with a layer
of dust on it.
Her poems, which had been untouched for a number of
years.
And all the pictures of her friends, who had
abandoned her for something or someone else.

She picked up her notebook of poems, and wrote her final words:
" They never cared. Nobody knew. Nobody cared to ask how she was doing. Nobody commented on the way she looked, or congratulated her on a fine job she did. Nobody cared. Nobody knew her."

And with that, the sunset on her life for all eternity.


 " To be free, or to be enslaved, that is the question."

© Copyright 2000 Heidi Wiitanen - All Rights Reserved
Astraea
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since 1999-11-09
Posts 378
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1 posted 2000-03-11 12:42 PM


You could turn this completely into a poem, even with that prose part.  Just somehow structure it in a way that fits.

And the last line should read:

And with that, the sun set on her life for all eternity.

You have sun set as one word, alluding to a real evening sunset.  If you want the sun to be setting, it's two words.  

Very good.

~Astraea



 "Sometimes stars can only be seen in darkness."

"Sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things."



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2 posted 2000-03-11 04:40 PM


This is a really good poem that many teens can relate to. Keep up the good work!

 "To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world"

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