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Fri Mar 25, 2016 8:51 pm
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Holysocks says...



*trembles*
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Fri Apr 01, 2016 2:39 pm
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1/30


the blade cuts away the storm that pulls me down
as i feel the ocean spill from the sky
i don't need her as a friend
her life is one of valour,
mine is built on determination
like the storm, believing his purpose, is in fact, to hum to us in his rumbly voice.

i can not go with them again
steel and lighting will mark my grave if i let those two
dear to my heart they may be
and though there's no path i know better
sometimes there just isn't anything to slay- and that's when they'll turn on me.

like i saw them do to that boy; charred toes
the electricity chasing him, the storm's song like a waterfall
down
down
down

Crashing into the river and rolling
so loud that your ears start to mimic the rythem-
i will not be that boy
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Sun Apr 03, 2016 6:32 am
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TheDreadPirate says...



I'm about to go to sleep here, just wanted to quickly say that you've used some really powerful metaphors here which really fit the poem, and I very much like the lightning chasing the boy down ^_^
Was the *trembles* related to the story content :-P
It could, I suppose :v
Oh - you must fix that dreadful misspelling of rhythm :D
  





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Sun Apr 03, 2016 7:06 am
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2/30

paddling

I've been rowing down this river a ways
the water hurries me past the poison ivy
hoping to release me into the wild

I lost my oars along the way
I thought I saw one meandering over
but when I touched it, the wood crumbled and tiny barbs rearranged the swirls on my fingertips

I thought this river would deliver me from the forest
but I find myself in an ocean
I remember a story about a man who drank the water
the whole ocean
and once he was finished?
it seeped out his eyes, it seeped out his nose- water ozzed from his ears

I didn't think you could get lost in a canoe
I thought I'd just follow the path
but the river twist and shifts and pretty soon you're spun around and up-side down

and you didn't tell anyone where you were going because you thought you'd be okay, but now when you want to call for help no one's there
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Sun Apr 03, 2016 4:14 pm
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3/30

candy-land evacuation

3...

counting back to the moon
soda-POP travellers
with ice cream stained smiles

the dentist used to scold us
now he stands in aw
at the best candy-station
in all the milk-y- ways

2...

prepare the gumdrops for lift-off
buckle your seat belts, Skiddles- we're going to the moon!


--Reece looks in his rear-view mirror to see an explosion of Mentos and Coke--

1...

leaving the jawbreaker-
we enter a world with chocolate sprinkles and crystallized sugar

captain, this is your Skiddles speaking; we'd like to request a bathroom break...

unfortunately dad didn't plan that far ahead
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Sun Apr 03, 2016 8:28 pm
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Pompadour says...



first and two poems--omnomnom water imagery! I love how 'down down down' forms an actual waterfall on the page (screen?), and the second poem really strikes a chord with me (g'aww, paddling alone<3 but that is how we grow, and learn, I suppose).

You have a really nice handle on flow. Great work!

the last poem is cute<3

Keep writing!
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Holysocks says...



Thanks @TheDreadPirate and @Pompadour! <3 c:
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Sun Apr 03, 2016 11:51 pm
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I like candy-land evacuation <3. It's too cute xD.
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Mon Apr 04, 2016 3:03 am
TheDreadPirate says...



Haha, yes the Candyland one is completely awesome XD, really a nice change from the rather odd and slightly disturbing Paddling.
"and once he was finished?
it seeped out his eyes, it seeped out his nose- water ozzed from his ears"
really makes me feel uncomfortable XP, but that's a good thing, it shows that your poem has power. I thought the sentence with the barbs rearranging your finger swirls was good, but sounded a little awkward in my head as I was reading it. Magnificent change of scene with
"I thought this river would deliver me from the forest
but I find myself in an ocean", I love the way the words and imagery flow together so smoothly! It would be great in a song, if only I made songs with lyrics ;-) haha.

You've really got to get an online spell checker though :-P - can I suggest grammarly? It fixes mistakes in real time for free :v

Oh, and I like the word "skiddle" :D
  





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Mon Apr 04, 2016 3:08 am
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Thanks @EscaSkye! C:

And thanks @TheDreadPirate! I have a spell checker on my laptop, but I've written most of these on my ipod which doesn't have a spell checker, and it was also early in the morning! XP
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Mon Apr 04, 2016 2:35 pm
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I frequent the pages locked in my skull
the coding is smudged
my memory won't recall when that happened
or who's responsible

nibbles at the edges
water-stains to the side
the cover is dented- the image distorted
I thought someone turned my brain into Jell-O
but apparently it's suppose to look like-
bubble gum meets gummy-worms

I would think it was worn from time
if it weren't for the stitches below my eye
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Mon Apr 04, 2016 3:45 pm
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5/30

in the corner
I can see he fancies she
the door's ajar
with a note

I hear talking
wanting to answer; I ask
pardon me?
petals, whisked away by the tempest

I forget where the ground is
falling in stages
like a robot

my thumb likes a pebble
wedged under the nail

but I'm mean

_because_

I told him he couldn't keep it
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Wed Apr 06, 2016 8:44 pm
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6/30

when I'm alone
I waltz with the willows
and scream at the highways of ants
as they despair the lines in the side walk
I do back flips
and host picnics
sending invitations to every bee
who'd ever made dinner for me

sand paper grinding the back of my throat
prevents me from saying the first "hello"

but when I'm alone
I greet everyone
with a cheerful thought
and I make plenty of room for you in my mind

I feel like that's why silence steals me away
from the gentlemen
and the flocks of window-shoppers
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Fri Apr 08, 2016 4:29 am
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7/30

he breathes, pulling me through each step
his tempo is the rythm of the night sky
it's ballerinas scattered across infinite blue-
a blue so black you'd think it had bled from
a murderers heart

tapping in time with the cat-calls
rolling in his arms; a dance within a dance
a shiver, tickling between silk and skin
threatening my composure

sometimes I fear I'm too free...
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8/30

they found out today I'm a fake
a clone of a clone of a clone
my mould was my sister
the pattern, my brother

my lips are carved out of clay
my heart is wax, and easily melted
they brush my hair and forget it's thread

so I'm going now
I'm going to find the artist
who glued
and taped
breaking my bones so they fit
into his ideal format

but as I walk
parts of me I leave behind
until all that's me is a trail of
buttons and patches
swimming in the sand
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