All those Dainty Lives

by Nargles

Published October 21, 2012

In poetry

Dainty lives, tiptoeing among the groves,
Silent workings of incomplete beings.
Cuts on fingertips, grazes on bruised knees,
Going about their chores in individual misery.
Tainted maps, sailors lost in rough seas.
Broken promises, forgotten dreams,
That inability to feel at peace.
 
Wire across wrists, blood of despair,
Encapsulating timely deaths.
Depression sprouts from their thoughts causing
Fading hearts, rotting away in waiting graves
Pointless lives hanging by a rope,
Dreaming of forgotten hope.
So hang your head and sleep.
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poemlovr
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poemlovr commented Comment · Oct 21, 2012

This was a great poem. It reminds me of the bad we often forget.

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LittleFox
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LittleFox wrote a review Review · Oct 21, 2012

Very dark and very beautiful all at the same time. I enjoy the simple sensory details you use in the first half. These days details are often overused and oversold and its too much. But this is a good example of how deatail were meant to be used. But I feel like the second half just has a hair too much. But its still a very good poem with lots of sad truth to it. YOu get a thumbs up from me :)

Thanks, I get what you mean by the second half, and there is certainly a distinct change of tone between the two :)

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ChocoCookie
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ChocoCookie wrote a review Review · Oct 21, 2012

Nargles,

I found this poem very true, touching and very nicely written. The way you describe each circumstance or in other words, examples, is a positive point here. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Just one nitpick:-

nargles wrote:Dreaming of forgotten hope.
So hang your head and sleep.


I thought that the ending was a little incomplete. I was wishing for a end line, because when you write "so", the readers are always kind of used to a nice ending. This was just a little too direct and it sort of sounds and looks a little incomplete.

Other than that, I think you're a great writer and you've got extraordinary talent! (:

Keep Writing! ~

ChocoCookie

Thank you, yeah the last line cause great internal debate, I like it but then I find it kind of out of tone with the rest of the poem. I don't know what to do with it.



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