Brief history of a life so far
By hoalarg1
Tue, 08 Nov 2011
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I fear not being.
I fear not realising my dream
more so, not knowing it.
I do things inhuman-like
it pays for my pens, those that help me search.
I get up, follow the routine and occasionally
occasionally I feel something different
it nudges and stirs the stagnant pools of
day-to-day.
I am terrified of the dark inside
so readily sculpting the view from my window.
How can it so?
I caught a glimpse of fearlessness in 1992,
it lodged and dined for nearly three weeks,
entering like waves of softened silk,
uncreasing the starchy folds between my dawn and dusk.
My truth revealed above in type,
unmasks a newness sought here.
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Fantastic poem, really like
Fantastic poem, really like the way it ebbs and flows and some fab lines, esp:
'I am terrified of the dark inside
so readily sculpting the view from my window'
My one criticism is that you have a tendency to overuse the comma when it is not grammatically correct in places - I know you are doing it to create a rhythm, but you need to trust in the natural rhythm of the words and your line breaks to do this for you - the commas can interrupt the flow,
J x
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No worries, it's a great
No worries, it's a great poem and I suffer a similar problem with over-punctuation myself! I tend to use too many exclamation marks!
J x
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