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| Poetry Poems, Haiku & Tanka etc. |
09-25-2007, 08:28 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Northern Maine
Gender: Female
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You Were There
To my late Grandfather
As long as I can remember
You were there for me.
When I fell to my knees
Or when I was blind.
You were there to
Pick me up and guide me home.
I remember your embrace,
Your loving touch.
I can't forget your laugh,
Your gentle face.
Watching over me
As I go through life.
As long as I know
That you are there.
I will continue on
My journey to that land.
Let me see you there
Waiting for me, across the river.
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~Roma
"Only thing we have to fear is fear itself." FDR
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09-25-2007, 09:01 PM
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I think this is a vast improvement from your first post. But it is still a little cliché. Maybe try a few metaphors.
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09-25-2007, 09:16 PM
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Heh. I defintely like posting here. I handed this into my Creative writing teacher and he gave me an A- and wrote two words, "Good work." Wish he had told me why I hadn't got an A+ then.
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"Only thing we have to fear is fear itself." FDR
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09-25-2007, 09:29 PM
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Scribe
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Maybe the A- was because of the line I quoted from the 2nd stanza. To me, that stanza reflects a past tense, things already passed, but it ends in the now. Besides that, I can't see why you didn't get that grade either. Nice work.
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09-25-2007, 09:32 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Roma87
Heh. I defintely like posting here. I handed this into my Creative writing teacher and he gave me an A- and wrote two words, "Good work." Wish he had told me why I hadn't got an A+ then.
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It's a good place to post work. Just keep writing and you'll improve 
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"He was over at our house struggling with a poem he could not finish, so I took him upstairs and gave him sex. He came down and finished that verse in twenty-five minutes."
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09-26-2007, 09:18 AM
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Wordsmith
Join Date: May 2007
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I think that if you go through this, look at the ideas and think of how they could be expressed in a new way, you could haave an really good poem here.
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