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RibenaboyUK
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since 2003-08-06
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0 posted 2003-08-07 11:50 AM



Corrosion in my soul
like a fireball frozen
mid explosion
threatening to take control or eat me whole.

Does it see the single bead of my nervous
nervous system
glide southward to my lip.
Slip quietly into something more comfortable but don't trip the sleeping flames.
Don't trip the sleeping flames.

No-one Move!
Especially you sweet angel of mine for the rest of our short time stay still.
You started this fire, you moved too soon across our tinder world with your flint shoes, and its you the fire wants.

'Boy!' does the fire want you.

I'll stay here with my thimble of water trembling before this vast scorching fury and,
on three,
you run.

I'll watch you go only because I know the fire is mine and does not exist,
and in my thimble there is no water,
only my heart.
And had you stayed to face this fire with me,
well,
I suppose,
there's no point telling you.
You ran before I reached 2.


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rose
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since 2003-08-02
Posts 53

1 posted 2003-08-17 01:47 PM


i enjoyed reading this poem: the metaphors were great.  the first two stanzas i thought were really excellent and full of peotic vigor; i felpt that you kind of lost steam as the poem went along.  i dont mean this necessarily in a negative way: all i  mean is that at first, it was very poetic and metaphorical; at the end it was easier to see exactly what you meant.  i happen to prefer a more subtle approach.
i loved the line:
You started this fire, you moved too soon  across our tinder world with your flint shoes
what a creative metaphor!
overall, i really enjoyed this piece; thanks for posting it.
~rose

cynicsRus
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since 2003-06-06
Posts 591
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2 posted 2003-08-17 03:17 PM


This was a very captivating read. Thanks for sharing.

Sid@cynicsRus.com

RibenaboyUK
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since 2003-08-06
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3 posted 2003-08-18 08:18 AM


Thanks guys, its only my second poem and its the feedback from people like you that will keep me trying again and again to write good, even better, poetry.

Thanks.

cynicsRus
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since 2003-06-06
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So Cal So Cool!
4 posted 2003-08-22 07:46 AM


Just a little friendly advice:
In the future, should someone say: "Your meter’s off and your rhymes are watery.” (what someone once told me), don’t let it discourage you. Just take it at face value.

Take whatever suggestions work for you, ignore the rest and, by all means, keep writing.

Sid

Sid@cynicsRus.com

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