10-19-2013, 04:28 AM
(08-21-2013, 04:01 AM)Bunx Wrote: Senior snake, the old and wise How old and wise? Two years old? A thousand years old? Elementary school education? PhD?Wasn't a whole lot of good imagery. You also mentioned the word demise four times, it's not terrible, but that stood out to me. It took away from the meaning.
may I take your council free of demise?
Or will you take what I have to say
as a tasty surprise?
Will I meet your demise?
Sorry senior, my eyes are burning
harshly from the sun. Where did the rhyming go? and Why are your eyes burning from the sun, as in what do you mean by that?
Snake, out in the desert I can't
smell what is food or rot. This did not read very well.
How do you survive in this
death like place? I wonder how death like? Senior citizen home? Graveyard? Or hell?
Rise, said the snake.
In the desert We got the setting earlier (although it's not a clear one) no need to restate
every treat you must take. Dog treats? Food? Humans? Chocolate? Rock candy? What kind of treats?
Fake or otherwise a lie can be
history or demise.
I am just a hungry desert snake
if you thrive on lies,
ill be your demise. I'll
I don't lie I just slither
on by, looking for those things,
where weak resides. Where weak resides, reads a bit weird.
Things that tickle my belly inside. How?
I never highlight my flaws or deficits
Because none of that will matter when death visits
Because none of that will matter when death visits

