The Only Truly Great Poem I Will Ever Write

by PsyLynx

Published August 29, 2005

8-28-05 (The Most Poetic Day I Shall Ever Live)

If I live to be two thousand
long years old, then never
shall I forget the rareness,
awe, and sure, pure
splendor
of not getting caught.

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Chevy
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Chevy commented Comment · Sep 13, 2005

There's something about short poems that's just so...beautiful. Only if they're good though. And this one is good...

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Elizabeth
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Elizabeth commented Comment · Sep 12, 2005

I liked it too.
it was short.
But great mind you.
There, now stop killing us with your words maaaaaaan. it's so uncool of you.

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Duskglimmer
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Duskglimmer commented Comment · Aug 30, 2005

I liked it. Can't really say much else about it.

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PsyLynx
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PsyLynx commented Comment · Aug 30, 2005

this is also an in-joke, for those rare fools who lived it with me.

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PsyLynx
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PsyLynx commented Comment · Aug 30, 2005

just know that it is inspired on a true story

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Beethoven
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Beethoven commented Comment · Aug 30, 2005

Good. Builds up to the last line, and you leave us asking, "What? What?"

Any explanation given and it would've been ruined. Excellent job.

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Snoink
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Snoink commented Comment · Aug 29, 2005

Very poignant. ;)

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hekategirl
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hekategirl wrote a review Review · Aug 29, 2005

Its good. But I'm not really sure how it can be bad. This seemes like the kind of thing you would put at the beginning of a story, you know? like you'd write this and then you'd start to explain what you did that you didn't get caught for. But its a intresting little poem.

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Firestarter
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Firestarter commented Comment · Aug 29, 2005

The best example of being succint that there is.

It was kinda neat.

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Matt Bellamy
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Matt Bellamy wrote a review Review · Aug 29, 2005

I found this quite suspensful (is that a word?). I liked the way the poem was very drawn out, for its length, and found myself thinking until the end, "what is it, what was rare, what are you talking about?" And the wondering didn't stop there, now I'm thinking, "well what did he do, why wasn't he caught doing it, when did he do it, where", etc. You provoked a reaction in the reader, and that's what makes this poem good, I think. The shortness of the poem works well, as does the word "splendor" on a line on its own, and now I'm rambling because I can't think of anything bad to say about it :P



Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.
— David Foster Wallace