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SpitFire
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since 2000-04-19
Posts 2396


0 posted 2000-07-15 02:02 PM


Thirty Three Words

stainless
steel
encounters
playing
caddy
to
droplets
red
reflection
blurred
tears
trickling
down
cheeks
purple
and
twisted
distorted
from
your
love
draining
the
effects
of
bottled
hate
washing
away
the
nights
of
cold.



© Copyright 2000 SpitFire - All Rights Reserved
Alicat
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since 1999-05-23
Posts 4094
Coastal Texas
1 posted 2000-07-15 02:14 PM


Very intersting usage of action words while adhering to minimalistic guidelines.  Very impacting.  Sounds a bit like sexual auto-asphyxiation: "cheeks/purple/and/twisted/distorted/from/your/love".  On the lighter side, taking these 33 words and rearranging them would make for an interestingly morose Seuss style of writing.  


Alicat, the Persnikitty

As I sit here dimly thinking
Watching modem lights a-blinking
Churning out poetic hash.
Lord, in all Your piety,
Help me keep my sanity:
Please don't let the modem crash! --Alicat



SpitFire
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since 2000-04-19
Posts 2396

2 posted 2000-07-15 02:20 PM


~Rearrange,rearrange!!!  Would love to see the result. (go on). *Peace.
catalinamoon
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since 2000-06-03
Posts 9543
The Shores of Alone
3 posted 2000-07-15 03:52 PM


Well, I wasn't quite clear on the message here, but liked the way it sounded anyway  



"If a man moves you to feel like a woman,
the least you can do is let him."
Merrit Malloy

insect
Senior Member
since 2000-04-22
Posts 1014

4 posted 2000-07-15 04:47 PM


Thirty Four Letters

S
U
P
E
R
C
A
L
I
F
R
A
G
I
L
I
S
T
I
C
E
X
P
I
A
L
I
D
O
C
I
O
U
S

Lone Wolf
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since 2000-03-16
Posts 5842
Lansing, MI USA
5 posted 2000-07-15 09:11 PM


SF,

You speak volumes in 33 words my friend.  Powerful and mighty writing!!!  

LW


Poetry should surprise by fine excess...it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts and appear almost a remembrance. -J.Keats

Click
Member
since 2000-06-11
Posts 202
USA
6 posted 2000-07-15 10:41 PM


Cool!!  I think I have bought there a time or three!!!

Click



lotharingia
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since 2000-06-04
Posts 897
saarbruecken, Germany
7 posted 2000-07-16 05:49 AM


I kind of feel like a dimwit after reading alicat's reply.   I mean what can one add to that?
You've outdone yourself with the title here, a really original one! And I like the idea of having a list of words: very well done. And the poem itself is also really good. What an image! I see someone crying away the pain of a bad relationship.


Lotharingia
"For God's sake, he's a poet. Poets are meant to feel miserable. Otherwise, what the hell are they here for? What are they going to write about?"
Tom Holland


EagleOne
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since 2000-03-07
Posts 2829
Between a laugh and a tear...
8 posted 2000-07-16 06:02 AM


3 or 33, your words are always powerful.

God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. ~Unknown



brian madden
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since 2000-05-06
Posts 4374
ireland
9 posted 2000-07-16 06:13 AM


SpitFire, no matter how many or how little words your poems still blow me away, especially the last few which have been very intense. I hope every thing is ok. Take care and peace.  

"I've been too honest with myself I should have lied like everybody else" faster-Manic street preachers.

Hardrock
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since 2000-02-14
Posts 948
New Hampshire, USA
10 posted 2000-07-17 08:28 AM


SF...I find that by adding pauses or linking words I can change the meaning slightly...nice work.  In fact, it's brilliant.  Hardrock
Portia
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since 2000-05-18
Posts 157

11 posted 2000-07-17 11:32 PM


Spitfire, this one put a knot in my stomach. I think that is a testiment to its realism. *shudder*
Verve
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since 1999-06-23
Posts 348
Singapore
12 posted 2000-07-18 01:54 PM




WOW ... this is so awesome!!!

Wren
Member
since 2000-07-05
Posts 312

13 posted 2000-07-18 05:54 PM


That was some 33 words! wow!
-Wren

The thread of destiny
Unknown by anyone
Unseen by anyone
Winds around your heart
Moist with tears
-Vampire Princess Miyu Theme

a-alibaster
Member
since 2000-01-08
Posts 392

14 posted 2000-07-18 06:27 PM


Spitfire.....
THIS IS WONDERFUL!!! 33 words that say so much together or alone!!
I love it!!!


"There is an alter ego which
dwells in every soul..."
a-alibaster

"I am as I am, nothing more, nothing less,
I am tears of pain, tears of Death.

Magebeast
Member
since 2000-07-19
Posts 60

15 posted 2000-07-20 03:44 AM


*ponders* Very very interesting, Spitfire.  Good, like everything else of your's I've read.
Jeremiah Johnson
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since 2000-06-08
Posts 1223
Brooksville, Fl, U.S
16 posted 2000-07-21 05:02 PM


this is a great piece so right and percise.
i enjoyed this alot and i had to print it cause so much is said.

I'm a dying romantic and when i can no longer write i can no longer live -Jeremiah Johnson-


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