The Never Ending Battle

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Chaos is order,
as order is chaos.
Nature against society,
neither takes Hiatus.
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A clash between the titans,
Mother Earth versus its kin.
Man versus the universe,
in an epic duel to win.
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And the fight goes on and on,
with fights within itself.
But one is true and one is false,
man just too blind to tell.
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We fight ourselves to fight nature.
Diversity must be gone,
Or nature beats out our rebellious cause,
we sing our siren song.
Last edited by 13timmy24 on Sun Jan 10, 2010 3:24 am, edited 1 time in total.




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Hi there 13timmy24. I'm Conrad, and I'll be your reviewer for today.

So, you've got something interesting here. But, I am having a hard time seeing just what side it takes. I think it takes the nature side, but I can't be quite sure of that. In my opinion, I think you need to make that quite a bit clearer. It will greatly improve this piece.

You have a good start here. You just need to tinker with it a bit. Send me a PM if you've got any questions or comments.

Good job, and good luck.

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I like to take things from a neutral viewpoint. I take neither side but simply state the facts of what is happening. Society is a conflict with nature




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Hey there! :) Great, great work here. I absolutely loved it! While I read this, all I could think about was the movie Avatar, as it has a lot of this epic battle wrapped in its storyline. There was only one thing that bugged me, and it's minor:

13timmy24 wrote:But one is true and one is wrong,
man just too blind to tell.


When you say "man just too blind to tell," I think you should make "man" "man's" instead. That way your poem flows smoother, and at the same time doesn't take away from it. Other than that... Yup, I was right. Nothing. Your punctuation was good (thank you!) and the message was dramatic, yet not cliched. You get a star! Woot! Keep it up! :P
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Thanks for the positive feedback




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13timmy24 wrote:Chaos is order,
as order is chaos.


Very nice contrast...



13timmy24 wrote:A clash between the titans,
Mother Earth versus its kin.
Man versus the universe,
in an epic duel to win.


I liked the personification of earth, and also how it details the fact that we really are her kin, just living off of her.


13timmy24 wrote:And the fight goes on and on,
with fights within itself.
But one is true and one is wrong,
man just too blind to tell.


You started both of those sentences with... damn I forgot the words, but And & But aren't supposed to be sentence starters. Maybe I'm wrong, I spent most years of grammar class with my face in my book (Sleeping not hard studying)




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to person above^ Those lines started with conjunctions ;)
lolz. But I don't find that a grammatical or stylistic error.
13timmy24 wrote:We fight ourselves to fight nature.
Diversity must be gone,
Or nature beats out our rebellious cause,
we sing our siren song.

that was a perfect ending, really beautiful.
13timmy24 wrote:But one is true and one is wrong,
man just too blind to tell.

I agree with conrad in that you seem to take a side in these lines^ and then don't go anywhere with it.
But besides that, it was a beautiful poem.
Great job and keep rhyming,
Empress
EDIT: I see what you mean, that nature was here first and society depends on its resources-- so they are in the right. But I would suggest exprpessing it a little more in your poem.
Last edited by empressoftheuniverse on Sun Jan 10, 2010 3:33 am, edited 1 time in total.
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I should have used the word false.. I meant to just describe how nature's path is... well it's natural... And society, it's kinda manmade



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