She liked sad stories best - the ones that ended (naturally) in hopeful death and loosened souls. She grew cold with little matchgirls, grim with fairytale endings and read Oscar Wilde tented in bed on warm afternoons. Her story, she reasoned, should end like these - wreathed in the simple beads of prose, stark and enduring. |
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Oscar.
Fifteenth in the Phonetic Alphabet set. Challenge by ~zebrazebrazebra, link to challenge here: [link] Sometimes I wonder why I'm still doing this. And then I realise that oh, it's because I've already finished. Hm. Okay, this is...not good. I got stuck on the prompt. It's really a scrap, and will be moved once I've gotten all twenty-six of these posted. Critique is welcome as always, but I'm unlikely to do anything with this poem anyway. I'm putting "Papa" up today, too. |
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I'm not quite sure what the word would be for it, but it's reminding me of something quite lovely. ^^ It's one of the more interesting things I've seen today.
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No problem at all. ^^
I like this one a lot, regardless of your more negative opinion.
Fav line: "the ones that ended (naturally)"
The "naturally" creates a cool image of dying among tries and nature and such, I dunno, melding back into the world.
I don't really have any suggestions--the last two lines bother me, for some reason, but I can't put my finger on what. SO I'll let it be!
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my past--I--/am stuck in/things of thousand words/concert girls/known and unknown/hair brown to black to blonde/far away/and hating me/and goodbye.
I'm glad you like it, though.
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God is love - but we've forgotten God and so we've forgotten how to truly love.
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I like sad strories best, too.
Thank you
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