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PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2008 3:46 am    Post subject: Rain Reply with quote

The rain falls down

It pounds on me

No one can stop it

Not even me

It lightens up

It comes down hard

But it wont shut up

Just hear me whine

A car splashes by

More wet I get

So much for wanting to be dry

The people pass without a care

And suddenly, I start to cry

They say they care

But thats just it

They can talk and never stop

But they never do a single drop

Of what they say, its all just talk

I try to smile, try to hide

All my real pride, is trapped inside

This, I cannot help

Its causing me

To lose my grip

I start to move and I slip

Down I go, It happens so quick

Down I slide, quite a ride

Over, under the stream of pride

I fall, I fall out of the sky

And I land on something..

Soft and dry

The sun comes out

It dries my tears

I feel like myself

There are no fears

A  RAINBOW shoots out

I feel so beautiful

Theres no longer doubt

My happiness is bountiful.

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PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2008 3:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

First I have to tell you that you need to do two reviews before posting anything.

The second thing I feel the urge to tell you is lose the color, it's a gimmic and it doesn't help your poem at all. Adding commas everywhere does not make a poem gramatically correct.

Fix the grammar, fix the color, because the poem is actually very good. The images are really great, this poem stands on its own without and you don't need the gimmic to help you out.

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PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2008 4:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

First of all, welcome to YWS!

Second of all, I agree with OverEasy about the 2 reviews=1 post thing.

Thirdly, I love how you presented this poem. It's the first time I've seen poem phrases in different colors. But that gives you more impact. Although, you have the freedom to use condensing language. Like with the "A car splashes by," I see that it's a red car. Use a wider variety of colors and you can cut out annoying additions and therefore have more of an impact.

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PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2008 5:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I like how you put the colors in the poem. It's kind of like a visual poem, isn't it? ^_^

Try adding more punctuation like OverEasy said, and/or try breaking your poem into stanzas. The poem is kind of a huge blob right now.

Hope this helps and welcome to Young Writiers Society!

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PostPosted: Fri May 09, 2008 1:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think it has an unobvious meaning and made you think which I liked. I think it was too plain though. I think you should be more expressive emotion wise. Also I think you should rhyme or you shouldn't, i don't think it sounds as good when there are just random lines thrown in that rhyme.

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Its causing me
To lose my grip
I start to move and I slip

I liked those lines. They made me think.
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PostPosted: Fri May 09, 2008 3:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

l like how the rainbow is a sign of happiness and how the rain is a sign of sadness. It has nice symbolism. But I hear it's better to live with content than happiness. Ps. They are not the same thing.

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PostPosted: Fri May 09, 2008 4:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fix colour, fix puntuation and then pm me to reread it also from what I noticed you spoke once in chat speak.

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The people pass w/out a care
And suddenly, I start to cry
They say they care
But thats just it
Methinks you mean without.

Overall: I got a headache with colour, it doesn't help it gimmiky and shame because from what Tiffany said it seems good, but the colour is hurting my head. So add in puntuation and lose colour.

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PostPosted: Sat May 10, 2008 6:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The different colours in the rainbow actually made me smile and as one of the writers above said your use of symbolism was good although you can improve it by adding a few more lines describing some people passing by and accidently put there foot in the puddles and some of them hate it but some smile and recall their chidhood memories which gives the whole poem a realistic touch work on it sista!
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PostPosted: Sat May 10, 2008 8:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What's with the colours? I think you're kind of cunning - would people feel so good about this poem if it didn't have colours? I found it hard to focus on reading it because the colours were jumping around. But I did like the fact that you changed from blue to yellow when the narrator's mood changed. But then again - would I know about the change of the mood without the coulours? Okay, I would. I'm not that simple. Smile

Interesting way to have us thinking. Good luck! And oh, welcome to YWS. I'm here to help - just PM me if you have something to ask!

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