The Missing Season

by backgroundbob

Published January 8, 2006

In Old Poetry

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I like the imagery. My question is, what does it gain from the line breaks? You're an expert poet (so I won't insult you with my normal level of critique :)); how does your use of meter enhance this poem? It doesn't read jerkily, as such, but the form you've put it in doesn't really give it anything extra, for me, anyway.

Apart from that, which isn't really a criticism; more of a target :)

oh, yes - I thought perhaps the comma after '80' should be a semi-colon.

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PsyLynx
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PsyLynx commented Comment · Jan 9, 2006

yeah, man, I love this. Stunning and shimmering, and what the hell else can I say? *Shrug* Extraordinarily mature comes to mind, language that drips with wisdom.

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xanthan gum
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xanthan gum wrote a review Review · Jan 8, 2006

it was very creative and clever, and i loved the point of view it was told from most of all.
for some odd reason, though, i didn't like it as much as your other work... :?
(i had to read it twice to understand it since i'm one of those highschool kids that say no. hah)

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backgroundbob
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backgroundbob commented Comment · Jan 8, 2006

white lightnin

Amen to the white shite.

My thus continued problem is that the fact that some verses carry on destroys this feeling. At least, I just felt like it was one big poem with extra line breaks.

I did get the theme, however :D 'twas clever.

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Incandescence
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Incandescence commented Comment · Jan 8, 2006

It's to give off the effect of a series of couplets: usually sweet, romantic ditties. Irony is the goal.


cocaine
white lightnin
packin the beak
...I've got a nose for these things. :)



I always knew that deep down in every human heart, there is mercy and generosity. No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
— Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom