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Literature
A Relationship
"Why are you so angry at me!?"
"You should know."
Literature
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I wrote love letters
but the crazy little thing
never wrote me back
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Words
How hard is it to put words on paper? Not very.
Now to write words that
inspire dreams,
bring tears to people's eyes,
or start a rebellion.
A bit harder.
The hardest thing to do though, is for the writer to be happy with the words.
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EDIT 21-2-2014: Parsat - thanks for the critique. appreciate it.
For those of you wondering whose "the Felonious Poet", here: fav.me/d5wssdh
Cheers. Happy reading
Other similar works:
fav.me/d5x4owc by PuzzledHeartBox
(inspired after reading this)
fav.me/d5lg1zx by tickersymbol
(the original)
fav.me/d5x4fjy by baglord-lordmindor
(coincidental link)
fav.me/d5x8fay by World-Inside-Me
fav.me/d5sadqk by Nullibicity
fav.me/d5yny6x by lombregrise (a title poem)
fav.me/d5ii7wq by NotenSMSK
fav.me/d5yx3xw by PoetBoi
and when I was searching around in my computer, I found this work.
The Power of a Poet by Arfa Karim
and of course this:
www.fictionpress.com/s/3071289…
Lit Daily Pick for March 2013 by star-blazer
sta.sh/051i83thnad
prettyflour.deviantart.com/jou… - prettyflour feature.
fav.me/d6m9wa1 - another feature.
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I like the sentiment of the poem, but I feel it suffers stylistically on multiple levels.
I think that the last two lines are should have been the most powerful lines meaningwise, but the last stanza shows several errors in early modern English that kill it for me. In the first line, "end" rather than "endeth" should be used (-eth is used for third person singular), and that the "thee who dares" should be replaced by thou or ye (depending on the tense). I think "ye who dare/to mock the hymns" would be best, although back in the day they might have said "thou who durst/mock the hymns." I understand it's complicated, but to me errors in this regard make the poem feel uncomfortably antiquated.
The other thing that bothered me was the use of "atone" in the poem. It's easy to simply throw around religious language to create the effect, but for the reader using the wrong word could be critical, and this is one of those instances. To atone for something means to make amends or reparation for something. In the Bible, they talk about making atonement for sins through sacrifices, and it refers to the making right of some wrong through some action.
Now let me strip down the meaning of that first line: "I atone for the gifts the Almighty has forged and blessed me to compose this poem." It seems very odd that one would atone for something that seems so good. Perhaps, then, it's an ironic statement about the poet's unworthiness, but the diction is simply not subtle enough to support this assertion, even if it was the poet's intent. The wording here needs to be tightened up if the poem is to start right.
An oral reading of the poem sounded better than it looked on paper except for the last two lines. Before those lines, you featured several strong endrhymes, setting up for an ultimate one, but when I read "dares" and then "fear," the whole thing fell on its head. It sounds very awkward, that conflict between the longish "air" and the shortish "ear". There are times when you can get away with such a thing for effect, but this is not one of them.
I can appreciate the vision of the poem and how it explores the inspiration and vision of the poet, and the spiritual power he wields, but ultimately the execution I feel is too clumsy. In terms of the four poetic elements—form, diction, prosody, and meaning—the whole piece could use a shoring up.