back to life :: short poem

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The moment you were hurt, the warmth
Was gone
With your song.
Soon the chills of bitterness
Come creeping
Quietly keeping
The rhythm of your pain.
To escape
You must take
Your frozen heart of ice
To a love,
Burning love,
That can melt it back to life.
Last edited by Amice on Thu Nov 03, 2005 4:58 pm, edited 2 times in total.




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:) It's nice....... but I think that the rhyming was forced at times-

Was gone
With your song


I think it might flow better if "With your song " was removed.

I like the idea of love healing the cold from a frozen heart.

There is an interesting paradox in the last line - melt usually is associated with the destruction of something but by melting your heart in this context it is unusual and moving. :D

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Bright is the ring of words
When the right man rings them,
Fair the fall of songs
When the singer sings them.
Still they are carolled and said -
On wings they are carried-
After the singer is dead
And the maker buried.

Robert Louis Stevenson




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Thanks Triona! I was dying to get some feedback!
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I really like this poem, I loved the melt it back to life line. Very good. I agree with Triona, maybe removing 'with your song' would make it sound better. I really like the quietness of it, wonderful work.

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That was...short. Okay poem, sometimes a little forced in the rhyming. Great metaphors.
Gotta a find a woman be good to me,
Who won't hide my liquor, try to serve me tea.




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I loved this line. It added a beat to the poem.

Come creeping
Quietly keeping


The poem was very rhymic. Good work
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This was short and sweet. I'm not much of a poetry critiquer (I don't even know if that's a word), but I just had to drop in and say something because you really hit close to home here, and I love those last three lines.
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Amice wrote:The moment you were hurt, the warmth
Was gone
With your song.
Soon the chills of bitterness
Come creeping
Quietly keeping
The rhythm of your pain.
To escape
You must take
Your frozen heart of ice
To a love,
Burning love,
That can melt it back to life.


I definitely think that "with your song" should be removed. I get what it means it's just that i doesn't fit and looks like it's being forced into the poem. Hope I helped!! \:D/
we all know you wanna kiss him....go ahead see what happens when you do...do you know what it feels like to loose a friend? you will soon.

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I like your poem. I love the descriptions, your wording is good.
If I were to read it out loud, this is the way I would phrase it:

The moment you were hurt,
The warmth was gone.
Soon
The chills of bitterness come creeping,
Quietly keeping the rhythm of your pain.
To escape
You must take your frozen heart of ice
To a love, a burning love,
That can melt it back to life.

(I took out the "with your song". I agree with others that it doesn't seem to fit.)
Does that change the meaning you intended to break it up differently?
I think it flows better.



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