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Started by AlanaMortensen at 11-18-2005 11:43 PM. Topic has 1 replies.
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   11-18-2005, 11:43 PM
AlanaMortensen


Joined on 08-20-2005
Columbia SC
Posts 24
Untitled
Close my eyes
Sleep comes in fits
Of prolonged torment
Dark my vision grows
As black as my birth
The night seeps in
Producing daemons within
Resurrected images
Break through the fences
Growing evermore ingrained
Your hands upon me
Enticing ecstasy
From cold depths
Passion rises
And new desire burns within
Night chilled cage
Of wasted youth


Alana

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   02-25-2006, 3:57 AM
tyler_giusti

Joined on 02-25-2006
Posts 36
Re: Untitled

If you want to know what I think, it's that I think it's unformed. What I mean is that you just splotched your feelings out onto paper and left it. Which is good, but it's only the first step. You may not want to hear this, but ninety percent of everybody's poetry, yours included, is absolute crap. The duty of the writer is to write it in the first place and then to go back again and weed out the crap. I think that this poem has potential, but it needs reworking. Remember, the role of a good poet is not to create natural work, but to create work so perfect that it seems natural.

-Giusti


I'm back from vacation, and finished with the pile of work on my desk when I arrived back. In the meantime, I still detest the idea of private forums, etc, etc, etc. Etc.
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