Bright Lights
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I actually enjoyed reading this piece, I like the first line..

Lit brighter with
the flick of a lighter.

This poem comes across as Slam Poetry...which I have a fondness for, and which has a brutal honesty to it. However the use of simple rhyming technique in your poem destroys its potential for complexity. There is a lot to this work that could be simplified, and as such there is an incoherence to it. Alluding to 'porn' could have a different choice of written expression to make this clear. I agree that 'seeing oneself' above all others does appear to come across as arrogant. If the people are all petty, why?

Flying high above the skyscrapers
looking down on ants,
hearing their rants, their pettiness.
Their penchant for petulant pensions
giving their lives dimensions.

I agree that your argument on the presumptions of the 'people below' needs some backing. It would add some meat to the carcass, so to speak and you may find that doing this and taking more chances with your choice of rhyme may give this work more dimension, it would be beautiful if it had more dimension...
my muse ran screaming....no really
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Bright Lights - by Jimmy Stark - 06-04-2014, 01:13 AM
RE: Bright Lights - by rowens - 06-04-2014, 01:59 AM
RE: Bright Lights - by Jimmy Stark - 06-04-2014, 05:07 AM
RE: Bright Lights - by QDeathstar - 06-04-2014, 04:06 AM
RE: Bright Lights - by Jimmy Stark - 06-04-2014, 05:25 AM
RE: Bright Lights - by rowens - 06-04-2014, 05:12 AM
RE: Bright Lights - by Jimmy Stark - 06-04-2014, 05:14 AM
RE: Bright Lights - by rowens - 06-04-2014, 05:16 AM
RE: Bright Lights - by rowens - 06-04-2014, 05:47 AM
RE: Bright Lights - by QDeathstar - 06-04-2014, 08:37 AM
RE: Bright Lights - by LorettaYoung - 06-04-2014, 09:05 AM
RE: Bright Lights - by rowens - 06-04-2014, 10:41 AM
RE: Bright Lights - by ellajam - 09-04-2014, 07:50 PM
RE: Bright Lights - by Pyxx - 09-13-2014, 09:25 AM
RE: Bright Lights - by Mwaba don - 09-20-2014, 09:42 PM



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