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quietlydying
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0 posted 2001-06-10 03:12 AM


i feel compelled to inform you, before you have a chance to read this, that this is in fact a sonnet, one of my most favoured forms of poetry.

as well, this is NOT about some pitiful little teenage puppy love, it has nothing to do with romance whatsoever.  note i did not say love, i said romance.

And now I feel nothing but a cool breeze,
where conceited love-for-show had it's place.
Dancing out of my life with such great ease,
I surrendered, lacking faith to give chase.
Swallowing many insecurities,
fill the void your absence has left within.
Satiate, in lieu of all the worries,
the anguish leaking through my paper skin.
Panic!  Empty the body, rid the soul.
Gone, that which I have no need for exiled.
Vulnerable, fill the empty hole.
Body of a woman, heart of a child.
I, your creation, lie cracked and broken,
lost on the border of sainthood and sin.

- jen


© Copyright 2001 jennifer elizabeth - All Rights Reserved
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1 posted 2001-06-10 03:35 AM


Iambic pentameter... I can see the faint hits of pentameter, but there's very little iambic quality to this piece, and so calling it a sonnet might be stretching it a bit far... ^^;  I mean, sure Shakespeare gets away with it, but Shakespeare's Shakespeare... so anyways. ^^;

I thought as a poem it was nice... the last two lines seemed to strike a nice chord in me, while the rest of the poem seemed to float on top of them. ^_^  The last two lines did not really rhyme that well... but there was a weak rhyme pattern going for it, so that wasn't that big of a deal or anything of that nature. ^^;

My complaint, of course, is in the iambic part... mainly because I struggled to write a sonnet and iambic pentameter always seems to act like a crippling device... iambic tetrameter is never a problem... but you know... the weird quality of a sonnet is that it adds the extra one without making it awkward, and that's really hard to do. ^^;

Anyway, the poem itself was wonderful... as a sonnet, it will pass sort of, given that it has the right number of syllables... but not quite a sonnet. ^_^  I enjoyed it nevertheless... and of course, the last two lines really stand out in my mind. ^_^  Hope to see more of your work, eh?  Until next time.


- holatuwol

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2 posted 2001-06-10 04:00 AM


i must say i agree with you won the iambic pentameter, or lack there of.

i pulled a shakespeare when writing this one, actually, that just so happened to be my excuse for slacking.

i needed to get something out on paper, and for some reason felt like a sonnet.  however got fed up and thought 'screw iambic pentameter' and kept the rest of the general guidelines as i had already started writing.

oh well.

- jen

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3 posted 2001-06-10 04:26 AM


I enjoyed this greatly. I do not write in any sort of format, so I couldn't give any adivce on that, but I will say that I liked this. I thought the theme and the way you expressed it was wonderful. Well done and Welcome to Passions!

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4 posted 2001-06-10 11:10 AM


Amazing entrance into passions!!! Welcome!!!! I really enjoyed this...you have a lot of talent and i cant wait to see more from you  

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5 posted 2001-06-10 02:23 PM


yea ok i dont know anything bout Iambic pentameter but i did like this alot! i think you did a great job on it. and its a great first post! WELCOME TO PASSIONS and cant wait to c more of u! *hugs*
tiff

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6 posted 2001-06-14 11:05 AM


WELCOME TO PASSIONS!!!

I too don't care much about iambic this iambic that.  All I care about is for a person to write exactly what he/she feels.  And to me that's more poetry than trying to follow a rule book thus lessening the feelings put into the poem.  I loved you Sonnet, yes, I'm calling it a sonnet.  You have really impressed me already and I'd love to read more of your work in the future.  Thanks for sharing.

ps. pls check your email

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7 posted 2001-06-14 06:14 PM


feelings are expressed quite well...in what i have seen so far in your poems...i liekd this a lot...hope tos ee more and ohh yea...WELCOME TO PASSIONS!!...bye

im addicted to passions in poetry!...are you?

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8 posted 2001-06-14 06:53 PM


well, there's nothing I can say that hasn't already been said...so welcome to passions!

I don't have an attitude problem You have a perception problem.

Heaven won't have me and Hell's afraid I'll take over.

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9 posted 2002-11-08 11:47 PM


I have to do this:

welcome to passions!! haha

Whilst running through the archives I came across this gem and can't believed that my name hasn't been added to the list of praisers! It was written brilliantly and it seemed to read through well enough for me. Well done, well done. Most impressed and definitely green.

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