sweet fallacy

by Firestarter

Published February 1, 2005

In Old awful stuff

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DarkerSarah
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DarkerSarah wrote a review Review · Mar 12, 2005

The opening line does not do the rest of the world justice.

"smiling is the world's language"

Though I agree with the concept it seems too "nice" for the rest of the poem, which is a little bit gritty.

"passion is nothing
love is lust
love is dust
perhaps even beneath
your disgustingly incessant
lovely prettiness
there is a vacuum
and my aching desire
is nothing
but fallacy,
sweet fallacy"

This is my favorite part. It's a little cliched, but all poems are. There is a nice inconsistency here.

"so nobody notices the
swelling of water, the
forgotten reservoir
of my boyish eyes."

This is my second favorite part.

I know you'd like some constructive critisism, but I don't really have any for you. It's difficult to critique poetry. For me, anyway.

-Sarah

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Areida
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Areida commented Comment · Mar 12, 2005

You're welcome. :mrgreen: :D :thumb:

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Firestarter
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Firestarter commented Comment · Mar 11, 2005

Ooh, extra comments. Thanks everyone.

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Areida
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Areida wrote a review Review · Mar 2, 2005

I'm with...um...well whoever said it. No caps. Uh uh. *shakes head* It's really good...my favourite part was probably the end:

passion is nothing
love is lust
love is dust
perhaps even beneath
your disgustingly incessant
lovely prettiness
there is a vacuum
and my aching desire
is nothing
but fallacy,
sweet fallacy.


*nods* Yeah....sweet fallacy...that's an awesome line. Great job. ^_^

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Sgt.Pepper
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Sgt.Pepper commented Comment · Feb 18, 2005

hey

this is one of the two poems ive read on this site. It's really good. Keep Writing.

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Skye
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Skye wrote a review Review · Feb 15, 2005

"Big yellow brain"? Oh, dear...

Other than that, it was fantabulously beautiful.

"love is lust
love is dust "

My fave lines out of the whole thing.

EDIT: I just caught this upon scrollin up: The first line seems a bit cliche. Not _really_ cliche, or I probably would have caught it the first time, but still not all that original.

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Firestarter
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Firestarter commented Comment · Feb 5, 2005

Tahnk you Mesh! I'll look at those suggestions.

And Sam, sure you can have it :)

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Sam
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Sam wrote a review Review · Feb 5, 2005

FIRESTARTER! DON'T LISTEN! NO CAPS! AHHH!!!

whoops...sorry. I personally like poems better with no caps. It's a lot more natural and less clunky, so to speak. It's like reading a paragraph that Looks Like this and Is really Annoying and You go Up and down, Up and Down...get my point?

I read part of this poem in your signature, and thought 'oh my god, that's beautiful'...I was going to ask you where you got it from but...*lol* you wrote it.

I love this poem...can I have it? Print it? Stick it to my ceiling?

ha ha...good job on this one. Know you wanted some, but no critique

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Meshugenah
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Meshugenah wrote a review Review · Feb 5, 2005

Really Jack, shamless bumping, indeed :roll:
One thing, you don't need caps! It is not written anywhere that caps are a requirement of poetry. As long as you use either caps or no caps, it's fine, just not both together.

smiling is the world's language,
expressive joy and happiness.
when you look at me,
do you see the same ecstasy
or a sad masquerade, a
powerful distraction
so nobody notices the
swelling of water, the
forgotten reservoir
of my boyish eyes.

Not overly fond of the first line; seems weak, somehow. "or a sad masquerade", I love that line.

staring at the window
following the southerly journey
of a solitary raindrop,
they always fall down.
has it ever occurred
to that big yellow brain
that my smile is as
plastic
as the white window frame
wet with smashed dreams.

"they always fall down" dounds akward, maybe always falling down? just wondering, big yellow brain? Also, I would jeep plastic on the line above it; one word lines tend to make for choppy reading. The last four lines are excellent.

it gets you wondering whether
other supposed beauty
is nothing but a brick wall
hiding a heart of stone.
passion is nothing
love is lust
love is dust
perhaps even beneath
your disgustingly incessant
lovely prettiness
there is a vacuum
and my aching desire
is nothing
but fallacy,
sweet fallacy.

I like heart of stone, but the precedign lines are, i don't know, not right. "it gets you wondering" is the first time you've talked to the reader, and it's not consistant. "Lovely prettiness", yuck! Not sure how to help it, per se, but describing something, like eyes or hair, maybe complexion, would sound better to me then "lovely prettiness". And becuase i'm tired, "fallacy" means, what again? (i should know this, too! gah).

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Firestarter
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Firestarter commented Comment · Feb 5, 2005

*shameless bump*

Sorry, but I really would like people to critique this poem.

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Firestarter
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Firestarter commented Comment · Feb 2, 2005

Thanks everybody!

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Tessitore
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Tessitore wrote a review Review · Feb 2, 2005

This poem was marvelous. It reminded me of a Snow Patrol song. Look into them.

that my smile is as
plastic
as the white window frame

That was a really great sudden one-liner. I loved it.

passion is nothing
love is lust
love is dust


Usually I do not like repetative words (strange since I repeat so many things in my poems, I can barely stand it when I read them over), but in this instance I thought it was very appropriate.

I really enoyed reading this... enjoying reading is a great thing. I would give this poem a 9/10...

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Green Monkey
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Green Monkey wrote a review Review · Feb 1, 2005

Like Emma said, you do need caps... But other then that, your poem showed intricate structure and it seems like you've put effort into it. I really liked the second section except for the big yellow brain part. That seemed slightly more odd to me. But then again, that's just me. :)

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Emma
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Emma wrote a review Review · Feb 1, 2005

Wow that is like really good. Okay so I didn't understand some of the words but it matched the poem beautifuly.

And also, when writing a poem, you must begin with a cap letter at each new line. Thats all! :D



It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle. The door opened on to a tube-shaped hall like a tunnel: a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with panelled walls, and floors tiled and carpeted, provided with polished chairs, and lots and lots of pegs for hats and coats—the hobbit was fond of visitors. The tunnel wound on and on, going fairly but not quite straight into the side of the hill —The Hill, as all the people for many miles round called it—and many little round doors opened out of it, first on one side and then on another.
— JRR Tolkien