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0 posted 2003-02-22 06:26 PM


Bus Stop Confessions

I stood
   silently.


watching,
waiting.


I looked,
       her eyes,
    fascinating,
familiar,


   I parted lips
but her name was lost


she blushed,
    I turned my face.


She walked away...

...the girl I never knew.


I just changed the title from lost, which I thought was a little bit vague.


[This message has been edited by Marshalzu (02-24-2003 10:01 AM).]

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1 posted 2003-02-26 12:55 PM


Nicely done Zu... I like the slight iambic flow in the syllable organization.  So kind of you to throw that in and allow the reader a taste of metered verse, even without visually formatting the poem as such.

I hate when this happens, when I see someone I recognize but can't recall their name.  Although I think there's more to this poem than that, that you saw this girl and thought more of her than just a face you might have remembered, but rather, as a face that was compelling to you.  Either that, or it's a person from your past that you regret not getting to know better... which would explain your slightly solemn tone in the end.

Not sure how to take it, but I like the title, and I like the structure.  Nicely written, Andrew.

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2 posted 2003-02-26 03:30 PM


Not much else to say, because what Allan over here said are my words, just, they are his, too.

Well done, Zuman. I like the simplisticness of it... more my style.

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3 posted 2003-02-26 04:39 PM


I love how you built this one.
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4 posted 2003-02-28 08:48 PM


I like the ending.  It's kinda humourous.  Is this something that actually happened to you?  It's always fun to let out things like that in poetry.  

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5 posted 2003-03-03 09:12 AM


This is partly inspired by something that happened but not the exact circumstances but it's more driven by a dream I had and a song I was listening to at the time. I have to say I quite like it, I think it's the first thing I've written for myself and I enjoyed doing that.
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6 posted 2003-03-12 08:14 PM


I liked this, very true, and don't you hate it when you can't remeber someones name. I do that all the time.


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