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It’s late,
I enter to an empty house.
Cold...alone..
I head up the stairs, no one.
I grab a drink from the kitchen and walk to my room,
Then I see it.
That little white paper, oh how those words scared me.
I hurried up the stairs to the attic,
There she is, shaking, pistol in hand.
I ran towards her to stop it...
I'm sorry.
That’s the last thing she said...
Why did she have to do it?
I heard a bang and watched her blood cover the floor.
No... she can’t do this to me...
I stand up slowly and pick up the pistol.
How could she do this to me?
I slowly put the gun to my head.
I'm going with her.
Last edited by deaducky8 on Fri Jul 28, 2006 6:36 am, edited 1 time in total.
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It was too 'this is what's happening' when it should be 'this is what's happening and how, and why, and what it means. I guess te actions were supposed to speak for themselves, but they don't really. At the moment it's a little hollow. Make use of some imagery, too. Great imagery can be the best thing a writer can do. Hey, that almost rhymed. Ugh. Anyway, make things a bit more abstract and bring in a bit more emotion through imagery and meaning, and you'll do fine.

...or you could completely ignore my advice.
Gone, gone from New York City,
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Gone, gone from New York City,
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Yeah: you've concentrated on the narrative so heavily it just seems like a sequence of events line by line. This isn't chronology; it's poetry. You have some good ideas to base a poem on here, work with them and construct something that can mean something to a reader. Play with words and ideas. Don't neccesarily go for the straight-forward option of stating exactly what is going on, but convey your anger into more subtle means. No-one can tell you how to do this, you have to learn by yourself. Keep going at it and eventually your voice will be heard through your work.
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No offense but: UUUUUUUGH.
Why would you say bitch? It seems the character cared a lot to have called this other one a bitch. Selfish selfish... I already fixed one of your poems to the max... I shall attempt with this one by rewriting it thouroughly... later. SCHOOL BUS!




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The way you kept going of what she was doing line by line it didn't really fit to me. In my opinion, I think maybe you should add more detail and like Inertia said, some imagery. After commas I would make a new line to make it go more smoothly, but that's just me.

It’s late;
I enter to an empty house Should be a new line.
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There, fixed and added lines. Happy?
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It seemed pretty fast to me. I got the feeling that the narrator wasn't killing himself to be with his mate in the eternal embrace of death, but to chase her out of anger O_o
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