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Old 01-27-2005, 03:06 PM   #1
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Under The Moon

Advice Advice!

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Under The Moon

Fingers glide through golden hair.
Not unlike a bird through clear blue skies.
Your diamond tears cleanse deep seeded hate.
Eyes shut doors of broken promises.

Unravel this noose.
Around my neck.
Unlock my heart.
With bittersweet kisses.

Colliding bodies.
Just for tonight.
Under a pure shadowed moon.
Let us taint the stars.
As they gaze upon our love.

Reach up.
Grasp the whole galaxy.
In your holy hands.
The stars form a rope.
Binding us together.
Until the moon fades to grey.

Time is only memories.
Words engraved in skin.
Tomorrow is ours.
Today is the future.
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Old 01-28-2005, 10:37 AM   #2
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Penelope is an unknown quantity at this point
Maybe it's just the mood I am in today, but this didn't do a thing for me. It has such a lovely title too. Drats!
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Old 01-28-2005, 12:43 PM   #3
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Advice? Hmm, many of the periods used created fragments in lines that should be extended for clarity.

As in here:
"Unravel this noose.
Around my neck.
"

Though it could just be the style your using, it doesn't work well when read or spoken.

"Unlock my heart.
With bittersweet kisses.
"

Same thing as previously mentioned applies here.

A period denotes stopping. In poetry that says a lot and should be used with caution. It obstructs flow and can create confusion when you start another sentence.

Some meter problems could be fixed. I can understand a descriptive first stanza, but the other stanzas do not do for me what they should, possibly by their brevity.

Comma's in place of some of the periods could really add to your piece's rhythm. Over all it is just punctuation you need to work out (but that's just to satisfy my tastes ).

Keep writing
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Old 01-29-2005, 06:54 AM   #4
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Re: Under The Moon

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Originally Posted by Muzzle Q
Fingers glide through golden hair.
Not unlike a bird through clear blue skies.
I loved this intro, I really did. However I agree with Druid on the sentence fragments, and do think you should steer clear of mixed/half metaphors that just don't take off, like "Unlock my heart. With bittersweet kisses."

I concur - do keep writing.
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