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AGE: 22
LOC: Turlock, CA
GEN: Male
LAST LOGIN: April 04

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 / steam cars
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 we lay down our choices like railroad tracks; with work in the sun, and the click-clack of hammers crashing down on our ties. we laid them in deep like the veins of some rusty beast that mingles with the dust of vast frontiers. we carve the sides of mountains and cling to our reasons like a cliff-side view. we scratch our way through. level the hills and bridge the shallows. we never quite made it straight and narrow, each one just as crooked as the rest. standing by for the locomotive...
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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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11 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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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 / Finality
I'm a fan of rhyme, but the scheme for this one came across as very forced. flow between stanzas was halting, and the piece lacks a certain quality of "smoothness". the way it should be read isnt apparent, though i suppose you could read it like an eminem song with a bit of difficulty, but the images seem very disjointed. i would recommend trying to create intermediary ideas to transition between them. for instance, the second stanza, who is the dancer? the jackals? where did these stone face...
so, i would call this more prose than poetry, despite the stanza-dized format. or perhaps more of a free flowing pointed speech pattern. you're quite talented, and the imagery was excellent. i disagree with the point of it, or part of the point you were painting, but this isnt the place for that. im not here to say yea or nay, but to review your stylings. i'd say the ending doesnt punch enough, that lemmings should deploy umbrellas, and that nano is ten to the negative nineth. good write. d:- )
Poetry / Here is Night.
so, i think this one would benefit greatly from some expanded imagery. perhaps you could elaborate on the chamber with something like "a cavern carved in bleakness" and i think you could definitely add some more to the "i shiver" line by putting some sort of alliteration after it in the next line. also, "overpowering" line seems awkward as it is. it seems like a haiku line. you could put it like: "light obscured in veils of darkness, overpowered" and the cluster of three syllables would go ni...
Poetry / Here is Night.
the word "crack" was off-putting perhaps a different word choice in this context? im pretty sure i just read one of your other pieces, and i like this one better, except for the crack part. also, the ending was effective in being a sort of trailing letdown (as i presume it was supposed to be.)
batman. theres your free word association of this one. dug the personification of the night, or alternatively, the nightification of a person. ive never been a fan of stanza breaks. its like turning a tunic into a quilt. if its meant to be one flowing cloth, no need to put it into blocks. aside form that, if you want to patch it up, you might consider just breaking when you change sentences. or thoughts. i find the best stanzas come if you do them as you write the piece. if you try to break i...
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