In The Dark

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Blackness can caress you
Warm you to the heart,
Scare you untill you run away
Screaming out the dark.

Piercing like a needle
Soft just like a brush,
Peel away your feelings
Suffocate you to death

Open space around you
Afraid you might just fall,
Grabbing onto sanity
Trying to pull through

Unknowing can be freaky
Make you want to die,
Just cling onto reality
And hold your head up high
Last edited by cathy on Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:13 am, edited 2 times in total.
There’s nothing to do, There’s nothing to see
There’s no where to go, There’s no where to be
I’m just sitting alone, In this empty room
Writing my poem, I’m over the moon




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i liked the now-and-then hard-to-catch rhyming. I forget what the exact word is for how you did it—Rhyming by sound rather than by letters, and such.

My biggest complaint is the lack of punctuation. Here is an article I wrote, Poetry & Punctuation that might help you out.

I liked it, and I'm not completely sure why. It made me feel something, but I'm not sure what I was feeling. My only question to you is, what were you writing about? Darkness, blackness, are my first thoughts. But, I think I would understand it better once it had punctuation to it. It makes it harder for me to read when it is like this...

Peel away you feelings
Your

Scare you till you run away
Until

I think if you tried to change some of the lines around, so they have more rhythm/structure, it would turn out even better.

I'll give you an example:

Unknowing can be freaky
Make you want to die
Just cling onto reality
And hold your head up high


(This might not be a very good example, on my part!)

Unknowing can be freaky,
It makes you want to give up.
Just cling to reality,
And try to hold your head up.

See? All the lines have seven syllable each (you don't have to follow this pattern.) You could do a seven-five-seven-five. Or anything, really, so long as it is consistent. I took the verse one step further, the first and third ending in "ee" sounds (the 'y'), and the second and fourth line both ending in 'up'. That gives is some rhyming, sort of (I wouldn't suggesting ending lines in the same words too often, though here it works quite well).

I really think this could be made into something great, if you dug deeper into the feelings and brought the reader more into it. It has potential, and I like that. If you have any questions, of want more info about the suggestions I gave, feel free to PM me :-D
“It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo




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Yeah I liked it. Couple of things that need to be untangled but it makes for some easy reading.

Well done.




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I think your poem was pretty good. There were some mistakes and I don't think the line Scare you till you run away
scream out of the dark. sounds right. Maybe if you changed scream to screaming it would sound better.
love ya mean it!
E.J.
~ the world will tell you who you are...
until you tell the world different.
so what are you waiting for?~



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