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A poem about poetry

 
 
Bekaboo
 
Reply Sun 14 Aug, 2005 06:00 am
Generally speaking I despise any piece of written work that is about writing. Case in point that song by Natasha Bedingfield. But somehow this sprang to mind last night and I wrote it down and apart from that little bit yesterday I haven't posted any of my own work in months. So... opinions please - as brutal as you like:

When chaos explodes in mindless agony
Your pain reaches ecstacy in its extremity
Your love rips your breast open with its flaming passion
You pump the pain into the pleasure;
The pleasure into the pain
And like flint on flint they ignite for a heartbeat
For one brief moment the flame burns
Fuelled by the explosion of love and destruction
And at the centre you will find it
Upon those very lips
Where I have known lover's kisses
And your caustic words of rejection
There the river springs
There the nightingale's kiss falls
There my quill at last finds her parchment
My poem is born

by Bekaboo
13/08/05

There are a few bits that might change... it's not what I wrote last night to the letter - but then I'm pretty sure i didn't mean to write open with two ps Razz Case in point: these lips or those lips? I meant these, wrote those and then thought actually that makes more sense so it's what i've put here. As a rule I never edit after a first draft... but this i might
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AngeliqueEast
 
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Reply Fri 26 Aug, 2005 10:06 am
I always enjoy reading your poetry. Don't stay away too long.

You have several good lines, but the following is my favorite.

"There my quill at last finds her parchment
My poem is born"
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Deler
 
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Reply Fri 26 Aug, 2005 02:15 pm
To me poetry is more confusion that concise, the first half of your poem speaks to me as it says the unknown inner workings of the process, the exagerated imagery is counteracted by the second half with confusion. Sort of an unwriteing of a poem, giveing the unknown process involved in a clear manner first followed by blurred reasons. Well balanced
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