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(1st Revision)
I press so hard leaving scars
my fucking pen wont write
my mind is reeling a frenetic pace
as I move over the lines but twice
sometimes I want to sanitize
and jump right off the brink
my words fall with a helpless call
written in frozen ink.
** Just a small change on line 6 changed "fall" to "jump"
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(Original)
I press so hard leaving scars
my fucking pen wont write
my mind is reeling a frenetic pace
as I move over the lines but twice
sometimes I want to sanitize
and fall right off the brink
my words fall with a helpless call
written in frozen ink.
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07-28-2011, 06:08 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-28-2011, 06:09 PM by billy.)
i love the first two lines craig.
after that i think you need to cut away some stuff;
I press so hard leaving scars
my fucking pen wont write
my mind is frenetic
as I move over the lines
sometimes I want to sanitize
and jump right off the brink
my words fall, helpless
written in frozen ink.
jmo thanks for the read.
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(07-28-2011, 06:08 PM)billy Wrote: i love the first two lines craig.
after that i think you need to cut away some stuff;
I press so hard leaving scars
my fucking pen wont write
my mind is frenetic
as I move over the lines
sometimes I want to sanitize
and jump right off the brink
my words fall, helpless
written in frozen ink.
jmo thanks for the read.
So, your way there I like, it slows down the pace, comes across more like a thought than a rant.
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(07-27-2011, 01:58 PM)ckeo Wrote: (1st Revision)
I press so hard leaving scars
my fucking pen wont write "Won't"
my mind is reeling a frenetic pace Shouldn't that be "at a frenetic pace"?
as I move over the lines but twice
sometimes I want to sanitize
and jump right off the brink
my words fall with a helpless call
written in frozen ink.
** Just a small change on line 6 changed "fall" to "jump"
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(Original)
I press so hard leaving scars
my fucking pen wont write
my mind is reeling a frenetic pace
as I move over the lines but twice
sometimes I want to sanitize
and fall right off the brink
my words fall with a helpless call
written in frozen ink.
A pretty good poem ckeo. Tense and strange, with some genuine emotion. I'd recommend tightening up the structure, perhaps make each line a complete thought, and giving us more specifics about the narrator and his torment, but other than that this is quite effective. Thanks for the read.
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