My Life's Song

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just to warn everyone, im not sure if this islyric poetry or not, so im sorry if i'm wrong. Also i have a problem with puncuation in poems, so please help if im wrong.
♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~♥~

A puzzle with a missing piece,
A box without its crayon,
You pull me up when I am down,
With your loving hand.

The touch of your lips is like a door.
When it opens, in comes the light,
Filling my heart with beauty,
Filling it with delight.

Your voice is like the ocean,
Crashing against the shore,
Smoothing each rock to perfection,
Until the sadness is no more.

My life and heart were pointless,
Until you came along,
You turned my world upside down.
You changed my life’s song.

The smile of yours is like the sun,
Shining down with heat,
You make my life seem brighter.
Always is it a treat.

Your eyes are like magnets,
I’m drawn to them each day,
I get lost searching for answers,
Never knowing what to say.

The drums are like your laughter,
Echoing in my ears,
The sound makes me so happy,
Almost bringing me to tears.

My life and heart were pointless,
Until you came along,
You turned my world upside down.
You changed my life’s song.

Your personality’s flawless,
Like a band’s supposed to be,
How the instruments all harmonize,
The singers’ melody.

Your heart is like the lost city of gold.
Boy, is it a treasure,
Compared to yours, mine is like thread,
But never shall it sever.

Your life is like air.
It’s the thing that brings me to life,
Without you I am nothing,
With you I have no strife.

My life and heart were pointless,
Until you came along,
You turned my world upside down.
You changed my life’s song.

You turned my world upside down.
You changed my life’s song.
Last edited by XxxcagedheartxxX on Thu Dec 24, 2009 10:55 pm, edited 1 time in total.
have you ever wished you would wake up in the emergency room and hear the words she's not going to make it?
the human heart feels things the eyes cannot see and knows the mind can't understand
love is friendship caught on fire




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AHHH!! i love it!! so beautiful!
People look at you with many thoughts running through their head.
Trouble-maker. Bully. Jerk. Pants on the ground. But me, only 1 thought runs through my head.
Please love me <3




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Hey cagedheart,

The poem's in the right place ;) It's very lyrical indeed. I like how you managed to bring similes and metaphors with each stanza, I commend you for that, it's what kept me reading. I liked also the rhythm of this and how beautiful it sounded - some places the rhymes sounded a bit force, but for the most part you kept it nice and together.

My beef with this is that it was a real long poem - and with each stanza you said the same exact thing over and over - it needn't be so long then ;P

Now as for punctuation - you punctuate a poem the same way you punctuate any piece of writing - except with poems you have a bit more freedom with the punctuation. In any case, just because you're writing poetry doesn't mean it's okay to break all the grammar rules and begin writing in sentence fragments. I'm not saying that it isn't done - it's done all the time and heck - even I write in fragments, but it's good to know exactly when and how to write that way, and to do it sparingly.

A puzzle with a missing piece,
A box without its crayon,
You pull me up when I am down,
With your loving hand.

The first sentence is a fragment - so I would delete the period in the second line or else add a comma. It's your choice whether you want to capitalize the first letter of every line or not.

The touch of your lips is like a door.
When it opens, in comes in the light,
Filling my heart with beauty,
Filling it with delight.

Last two lines are fragments - so I added a comma at the end of the second line. Also switch in and come.

Your voice is like the ocean,
Crashing against the shore,
Smoothing each rock to perfection,
Until the sadness is no more.

You make this mistake every time, just do without the period in the second line ;P

Those eyes of yours are magnets.
I’m drawn to them each day.
I get lost searching for answers,
Never knowing what to say.


My life and heart were pointless,
Until you came along.

How was the speaker's heart pointless? It was pumping blood to her body o.0 I know - I know, I'm getting too technical. But you know, this is why wording and word choice is so important - I get the meaning of what you meant to say, but you have to make it clear to the reader nonetheless.

Your personality’s flawless,
Like a bands supposed to be,

Another comma there, or else you'd have a fragment. Also an apostrophe before the s in 'band'

Those were all the things I caught. Overall, it was real good! Keep writing!

~ Audy




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-Audy
thanks! I kind of suck at puncuation in poems, lol. so thanks again! i really apreciate your input audy!

-Fallenangel27
i also appreciate yours A.F (btw dont forget, i wanna hang out sun or mon. if you dont mind :D)

-heart :elephant:
have you ever wished you would wake up in the emergency room and hear the words she's not going to make it?
the human heart feels things the eyes cannot see and knows the mind can't understand
love is friendship caught on fire




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Hey caged heart,
I have been reviewing poetry (almost) all day (have not taken a shower and its midnight) and I have to say of the ubergillion poems I've read, some by you and others, this one stood out.
XxxcagedheartxxX wrote:Your personality’s flawless,
Like a band’s supposed to be,
How the instruments all harmonize,
The singers’ melody.

I love this stanza. It just gave me this warm glow-y feeling inside.
Your beginning stanza is also wonderful; it really grabs my attention as a reader and pulls me into your poem.
Don't really have any nitpicks here, just keep on writing poetry.
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thnx for all the replies THe universe!!!
i really appreciate feed back :)
im also glad you like my poetry :D
thnx again
-cagedheart♥
have you ever wished you would wake up in the emergency room and hear the words she's not going to make it?
the human heart feels things the eyes cannot see and knows the mind can't understand
love is friendship caught on fire



“A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.”
— Phyllis A. Whitney, Guide to Fiction Writing