Blood like water stains, but blood is harder to remove...

by Firestarter

Published October 17, 2005

In Old Poetry

This feels like the same as your other recent poem, "Living Alone With Green Carpet" ... same subject matter?

Anyway, I thought this fitted very well neatly together. You seemed to have perfect the run-on stanzas particularly well. Personally, though, "I won't pretend/this poem ends cleanly" line was a bit...I don't know. Didn't fit the rest of the poem to me. T'was out of place. But otherwise, I liked.

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Matt Bellamy
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Matt Bellamy commented Comment · Oct 23, 2005

I think the last stanza finishes off the poem nicely, like "I'm done talking now, I'm just going to lie here and let you take it all in."

Yours is the first poem I have read on YWS in order to enjoy rather than review.

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Sohini
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Sohini commented Comment · Oct 22, 2005

Very moving poem. What is “chapstick”? I think the last stanza was a trifle confusing. The words are otherwise very well chosen but maybe you could do with a few more punctuation marks to put this poem more clearly.

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Elizabeth
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Elizabeth wrote a review Review · Oct 19, 2005

This sent shivers up my spine, or maybe it's because it's like 65F in the school, but I dunno.
I liked this... it was very very strange though... confusing. But yeah...
The ending seemed rather sad to me, and it cast a certian emptiness in my heart and stomach (breakfast time).
Great job otherwise crazy guy, great job.

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emotion_less
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emotion_less commented Comment · Oct 18, 2005

How very, awesomely you... Compliments from below.



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