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rhia_5779
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since 2006-06-09
Posts 1334
California

0 posted 2007-03-06 04:29 PM



This is really personal and emotional but I really want to work this into a better form. And make it better with meter.

Running out of escape routes.
Each way I try is blocked.
Failure just deepens my mood.
Way too far I’ve walked.

Empty fields of desperation bloom at random.
Every tactic I attempt, just fails to succeed.
Instead, flowers of despair pop up with abandon
My hungry heart won’t take what I feed.

All the intersections turn to a dead end.
My pathways have been extinguished.
Creating wounds that may not mend.
My friends ignore me, what is it I did?

The people who I used to laugh with,
Have turned. No longer do they turn to me.
Divided up into a group, and I guess I didn’t fit.
I don’t know who they want me to be.

If I try to rekindle the friendship, I get nowhere.
They drive me away in all the small ways that hurt.
Given up on Karma, getting them back, I don’t care.
I have to be a certain person for them. But who did they meet, me or her?

I think they thought I was someone else. An actress without a script.
I didn’t pretend, I tried stay strong. I watched the tinder accumulate.
Perhaps I struck the match. I can’t kid myself; maybe I might have saved it.
All I know is, I’m left alone. They notice. It’s my payback or maybe just fate.

Running out of options, dangling on a string.
All I can do is wait till I can go home.
Wish I could fly, but I ain’t got no wings.
Clipped when I lost my friends, I’m alone.



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ken_wertz
New Member
since 2007-03-22
Posts 6

1 posted 2007-03-22 09:35 AM


I like this poem despite the meter, and I really think that the rhyming scheme is forced.  You can definately feel your pain here though.  Nice write.
ChristianSpeaks
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since 2006-05-18
Posts 396
Iowa, USA
2 posted 2007-03-23 01:40 PM


Rhia-

Not bad. I think that it gets better towards the middle and then lacks a bit towards the end. I like the thought of duality in personalities you show to differing people. You have a nice start here, but I think the form is killing you. What is the form that you are going for? Could you pair it back a bit maybe to a 4 stanza syllabic verse. You may be able to cut the fat by choosing a different form. But please let that not take away from the fact that I do like this one.

Have a good weekend, we'll talk at you later,

Dane

rhia_5779
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since 2006-06-09
Posts 1334
California
3 posted 2007-03-24 01:10 PM


I am glad you liked I do want to make it less forced. I agree the rhyming is forced.I wonder if it would work in free verse.

Considering I have two poems being worked on in CA , is it too soon to post this other poem I wrote? What do you think?

I want to post it but i want to work on these too.

suggestions?

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