Memories

by neko

Published May 27, 2012

In Poetry

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My emotions are like falling leaves,
In this unstable world of adults,
That screams for our blood.
Do you remember?
When we were just kids?
We’d run and yell until we passed out,
And took our liberty for granted.
 Do you remember?
 When the sky was still blue?
We’d wipe away each other’s tears,
And searched for something more in life.
This world is warped,
A cold replacement,For what we used to have.
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kimmybee
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kimmybee wrote a review Review · May 27, 2012

This is great!
Did you intend to separate the last line maybe? As in:

"A cold replacement,
For what we used to have."

I wish it could have been longer, I feel that you could expound further on the areas in which this world has been altered/replaced.
I loved your call to the readers, "Do you remember?" It made me want to read on. Unfortunately I couldnt :)

Very innovative approach. Excellent execution. I dont see any typos, or grammar errors, so that is good.
Thank you for a great read, never stop writing.

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MonicaMorgan
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MonicaMorgan wrote a review Review · May 27, 2012

That's a very sensitive and emotional poem. Realistic ofcourse I really liked it.
It expresses all the innocense of children and the way they precieve the world and at the same time it compares it with the world of adults which is crwel full of hate and greed.


"In this unstable world of adults,
That screams for our blood.
Do you remember?
When we were just kids?"
the comparison is really clear at this point in the beggining of the poem.

It is realistic since in a point we all feel that way and our lives are like that after all as we grow up and change forced to put childish things away. It has a sence of nostalgia for childhood and sweet memories. This is emphasised here:

"We’d run and yell until we passed out,
And took our liberty for granted.
Do you remember?"

Then the dessapointment of not being able to turn back time is obvious and we all feel it at times so the reader can be easilly related with your poem and make it his or hers. because after all as writers what we do is to create and express ourselves and sometimes the whole world as well.

Very sweet in general so good work



All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe