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AGE: 21
LOC: Turlock, CA
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LAST LOGIN: March 07

Sometimes hope is all you have, and all you ever will have; there is some small victory in having hope above nothing at all.

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Poetry / among thieves
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9 Reviews   3 Comments
and we indeed justly. as thick as thieves abreast: in richest robes we dressed, we stole, and dance before a noon dark sky. all this in the green wood while waiting for the dry. woe! where shall we go when hanging left and hanging right our hands are tied? salvation out of reach, but at our side. what words will comfort then? what words could save us? so keep this here, between two thieves at the lowest height a man achieves. the highest thing a man believes. a thief song sung when death is n...
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Poetry / going critical
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10 Reviews   2 Comments
your form, i find, is flawless but i prefer that it were free your punctuation lacks direction. your syncopation lacks degree break for stanza if you're willing but carry rhythm while you pause in Cases use your judgment but in speelling mind the laws while ascii has its merits i find your syntax far from prime i spit at shoddy diction and i curse your bloody rhyme!
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Poetry / Mirror, Mirror
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10 Reviews   0 Comments
Mirror, mirror, fruit of sleep; Enchanted petals in the ocean deep. What makes the memories we want to keep And what sadness makes a princess weep? Lightening scepter, a magic lamp; One more treasure where two score camp. Open sesame to release the clamp. Gold resides in the cold and damp. Shallow waters or deepest sea? One last wish to set him free. Fate made us a tapestry; A whole new world revealed to me. Rob from the rich; give to the poor. Beware the clock ticking, off the shore. At midn...
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Poetry / Sparrow
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8 Reviews   0 Comments
Once a sparrow flew upon the twilight. The winter sky was wide and vast and dark. “Horizon! Horizon!” Cried the sparrow, “What fallen sun could make the sky so stark?” In one wink the twinkling sun descended And conjured slinking specter shapes of grey. Swiftly flew the fierce embattled sparrow— Alas, the sparrow could not get away. Fearsome torrents trapped by skillful Dreamer, Who dreamt to dredge such endless seas of gloom. Desperate times befell the gentle sparrow; A tapestry entangled in...
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Poetry / Squall
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9 Reviews   0 Comments
caught atop a feather loft with the floor far down but the down is soft i fall a flight of feathered stairs and hit the ground but leave my cares and play the plight of fleeting stares inhale full, and exhale bare. fight the plumes of feathered air. here's the truth: i will be there. through fields of fate, and witch's hate a slash between the eyebrows: down. so pierced i played the masquerade toy soldier in the mountain shade when morning falls and all else fades the only path is downward gr...
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For some reason it makes me think of the hunt for red october... other than that, i really enjoyed this piece. It is surely western. I had a small qualm with this line: "a broken sun to light hay bales" seemed like it needed two more syllables before hay bales you could think of a nice rustic adjective for it. heck rustic might even work. scattered, earth bound, earthly, prickly, eh, you get the idea. I'm sure you could find a better word to put there anyway. keep up the nice poetry. d:- )
Poetry / the backdrop
I enjoyed the relation of this to a game. And I especially liked the repetition of the players one through players ten. "glorified queen" was a particularly poignant phrase. The oak tree was another good image that you used. i liked it. have a good one. d:- )
Poetry / Forever Again
Its refreshing to see that rhythm and rhyme arent yet dead, with all this free form and blank verse flying about, it seems that the real talent of constructing a poem is dwindling. I liked this piece. This word, however, I could not figure out how to fit in the line "Elysium" It seems to be 4 syllables. I know that its mostly in iambic pentameter up to this point, but that line just seems awkward. a few lines above it, when you end with "where" it is only 9 syllables, but it fits better than ...
Nice stuff. It seems more like a story than poetry to me, but eh. I liked how you used the parenthesis, starting them mostly with similar sounding words, and having them be so contradictory at times. I wasnt sure about this line "a leap desperation" I didnt know if it was supposed to be "a leap of desperation" or not. My favorite line was "i want to be buried with no secrets (but i’m taking every single one to the grave)" anyhow. good stuff. d:- )
Poetry / Withdrawal
the piece seems good overall. the only thing that i would look into is the line: "our best days also my best" I just felt that you could have put something better there. instead of the also.. nothing in particular comes to mind, but you might consider thinking of possible words that might fit. good luck. d:-)
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