Whilst You Can

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Please feel free to review this :P Enjoy my complicated-ness.

Forget this life, and come with me.
Sweet sparkling grey, waters of Spring.
They want you there, so watch them grow.
No one's there to stop you from living.
Call the planets, watch wondrous starlight.
This world is ours, and a girl loves you.
So sweetly eternal. Grow old with her.
See her tonight and laugh, smile, feel.
Your time has come to live, for a while.
Immortal, for now. Don't be afraid.
Watch the clouds. Feel the wind. See the pretty flowers.
We want you to live. This world needs you.

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Emmzziee
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Ah.
Okay.
Thank you for all of your suggestions.
This was the first poem that I've ever written in this sort of format, and is also the very first poem that I've actually kind of liked when it was finished. I needed to write this, as it's based on a lot of complicated thoughts and ideas that were in my head at the time of when I wrote it. I guess that might be why you guys found it hard to understand.
I was working with doing nine syllables per line. I kind of figured that that would equate to a certain rhythm. So, I guess that doesn't work :D Ghostie, I took your advice and got rid of the stanzas completely.
Thank ya'll again for the reviews :)
Emmzziee :smt032

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Audy
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Audy wrote a review · Sun Jan 08, 2012 6:48 am

Emmzziee,

To go along with what ghostie mentioned, yes the rhythm and flow of the poem is off, mostly the issue here has to do with punctuation errors.

Forget this life, no comma needed and come with me.
Sweetcomma here sparklingcomma here grey, no comma waters of Spring.
They want you there, so watch them grow.
No one's there to stop you from living.


Okay, so I've gone ahead and corrected the first stanza. The entire poem's punctuation is completely off, but you can check out this lovely guide if you need more help.

I do like some of the images in this poem, and I thought the concept was cute, however I was a bit confused with the pronouns here. Who is the speaker? Who is "you"? And who is "they"? I thought the "you" referred to water, but it was never quite clear. Actually, it feels as though this piece could be longer, and maybe needs some more elaboration?

Ultimately, it is your call. I hope this helps, and let me know if you have any questions.

~ as always, Audy

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ghostie
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ghostie wrote a review · Sun Jan 08, 2012 5:29 am

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Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
— Adrian Mitchell