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Dean
Member
since 1999-11-23
Posts 120
Canada

0 posted 1999-11-24 12:28 PM


Now I learn ??
I miss my dawg so
Even though
My dawg gone
Try to be strong on my dawg
Used to hit me
But I'm home alone
All the memories I got of you
Shining like the sun
I used to invite you to my house
We used to fight
Who gone sleep in the top bunk
We used to
Throw rocks
To the cops then we'd run
We was so tight
We got caught
Both of us
They got just one
I remember dawg
We just like
Kick back and laughed
We grew up a little bit
Life made us choose a
Different path
You chose to get a job
And I sold and dealed
You choose to go to school
And i chose the streets
I was the one that
Always lived fast
You used to want to live slowly
As I look in the casket
I though for sure
It was supposed to be me
Damn I lost my boy???
And I contemplate to myself
Would it have been different
If I would've been there
I guess we'll never never
Never know
But I know one thing
Why's it always the good ones that got to go

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"Live to love or why live at all"
Deano


[This message has been edited by Dean (edited 11-25-1999).]

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Angela Durham
Junior Member
since 1999-11-21
Posts 10
Az
1 posted 1999-11-24 01:04 AM


I really Liked yoiur poem it was very touching, hope to read some more from you.
~idgie~

Marilyn
Member Elite
since 1999-09-26
Posts 2621
Ontario, Canada
2 posted 1999-11-24 05:10 PM


This is very good Dean. You express your feelings well. I am confused though. What is this supposed to mean?

Try to be strong on my boys
Used to hit me
But I'm home alone

I would like you to work a little on the grammer and use of English in this piece. I understand where it is coming from but it is difficult to understand from the readers perspective.

Eg.:
You chose to get a job
And I sold and dealed

I thought to myself dealed?...oh delt....as in drugs I assume? Making the reader think is a good thing. Confusing them is not.

Also in the first five lines you refer to boys....plural. In the end it turns out to be just a single boy.

As I said this is a very apt expression of your feelings. Shall we clean it up a bit?


Angela16
Junior Member
since 1999-11-19
Posts 37
USA
3 posted 1999-11-28 04:15 PM


I really liked this poem, it was really good!! keep up the great work!

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Angela

Angela16
Junior Member
since 1999-11-19
Posts 37
USA
4 posted 1999-11-28 04:15 PM


I really liked this poem, it was really good!! keep up the great work!

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Angela

Krut
Junior Member
since 1999-11-26
Posts 27
Adams, Wi U.S.A
5 posted 1999-11-28 06:18 PM


good poem...eventhough i think its cool for poets to express words inthere own way and say what they want to say..it was kinda hard to understand the grammar....but i still got the idea....and i still liked it...

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~lifes a journey not a destination...~
Aerosmith

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