Poetry / Or So I've Been Told

I liked the rhythm and flow—I would probably be able to relate more if I was older. The ending was a little predictable though.

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June 24, 2006

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Hmmm, I don’t agree.  I thought the author was going to debate the cliches, and I thought the last line brilliant.

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Cute little poem you’ve written here. I like the low of the words and I think it is all true of what you’ve been told.

You know the saying “what will not kill me will only make me stronger” that statement is true for our experiences with the world, we folly so much, and so we learn. But the matter of the heart is a whole different subject, The more is battered, the more gashes it receives, the more disillusioned,depressed and insecure we tend to get, we do not grow from heartaches, maybe we become more indifferent. Love that loves is by far more enriching.   I love your insight, I love your poem.

that is a good one. i guess its a balad. it has a tight rythem and a “punch line”, that i agree with. but why not break it into verse?

Very well put and creative.  Simple and short, yet unique. Now what I’m getting from this is that everything soicety tells you is old is old, but it really isn’t.  Its not in the appearence that makes one old, because its what is inside that makes one old.  When one loses heart I guess that could be getting old.  Yet, this can’t be the entire truth.  Being old is not entirely a negative.  Old by society may be bad, but it really isn’t.  Being old should be filled with wisdom.  It is like a fine wine, because it gets better with age.  Yet, I can’t fully know what this writer is really trying to convey, because this is just what I get out of it.  Yet, very good job, because it is what you are feeling not me.

Beautiful.  I like how the superficial signs of aging are cast in a positive light.  Well written.