Four by Four lines

by paperbackheart

Published July 11, 2011

In My serious poetry

A/N: This is a four by four (four poems by four lines) and so it seemed like a waste to put them all seperately, so it is a four by four. Hah, read on.

1: My only nightmare

The night can kill
with its sly grin.
What's innocence?
I've forgotten again.

2: Heaven and Hell
With death's angel looking above
and life's demon looking below,
they find an opposing force:
happiness.

3: The Meaning
We meet and touch
And push and punch
And miss and kiss

But we won't say love.

4: Whatever you say

Momma, Momma
can you admit
that I'm just that bad
or am I suddenly not your kid?

Spoiler! :
1: This one was really painful, but it's rather personal. I bet he forgot about me actually. Haha, *nervous laugh* So, if you read it again, you may understand now the title.

2: This one's based on a short story I wrote, but basically the rivals finding middle ground. Itms pretty deep if you think about it.

3: I love past relationships. They make such good poems.

4: Also called 'Passed off' but if you've gone through what I have, then you should understand. It's pretty straightforward actually.

Comments & reviews · 5
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Demoness
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Demoness wrote a review Review · Jul 31, 2011

Hellouu, I'm Demoness and I've come to give you my opinion on your work! :)

I'll begin with saying.. GREAT WORK! I liked them all alot, not equally much though.

"With death's angel looking above
and life's demon looking below,
they find an opposing force:
happiness." - This was my favorite one, many of my own poems are based on the same theme, I LIKE IT!

The third one was really great too, you got a whole life story to feet in only a few rows - NICE NICE

The first one was good, didn't make me feel anything though as all the others did but stil, Quite GOOD

As for the last one... - Change the word kid to child or something else and it'll be unimprovable :D

Hope I could help or atleast said something that meant something :DD

Good Luck & Keep Writing

// Demoness

writerwithacause wrote a review Review · Jul 31, 2011

RHyming isn't your best skill, but it was still an enjoyable poem. I liked the structure (how you divided it into 4 lines and stanzas... Quite interesting poem. :)

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SubjectBlue
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SubjectBlue wrote a review Review · Jul 14, 2011

The rhyming and weight themselves were a-bit off and shaky.
The emotion compensated for that.
some I liked less, but I loved the first, it was- in my opinion- the best one of them.
As I written above, I think you should work a-bit on the technical parts of poetry, if you'll do that, I assure you the conclusions will speak for themselves.

Keep writing.

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MamaLama95
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MamaLama95 wrote a review Review · Jul 11, 2011

You know, even though your meter was a bit off and the rhyming felt forced at times, I really enjoyed this. You took on a completely different style and you were very original with the way you presented it - there was a lot of powerful emotion hidden under subtle words and that felt like it was really appropriate for this particular piece. Keep writing, this was definitely worth reading and reviewing.



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