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TarkovskyMirror
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Sat Aug 06, 2005 4:23 pm

Woman must play, it seems to me;

Romance as damned currency.

Not simple lust as at first thought;

That blind penchant to maul her taught,

But gleens staid motivation true,

To put or take a hand to you.

She renders even linguists base

With furrows gorged across the face;

And glazen, incandescent eyes

Do flummox man, more shy than wise.

Such gentle form belies all sense,

As manufactured fancies tense.

So suppled are our fingertips:

Warm repititions from her lips.

Oblivious to us she skips,

On sleek formed pinions from those hips.

As primordial balance tips

Can we, as men, resist such trips?
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Sat Aug 06, 2005 5:45 pm

Rhyme dominated this one too much for my tastes, too much said too awkwardly.

My opinion.

- Caleb
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Thomas
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Sun Aug 07, 2005 2:19 am

Hi there TarkovskyMirror....Welcome to the forum .

You have opened up what I call a can of literature worms,To rhyme or not to rhyme that is the question? I have reaqd you piece and picked out some good lines;Although I agree with my friend Pseudonymous I think rhyme if used haves to be placed very carefully and cleverly I have used rhyme many times before now but same as you used to much,I still have used rhyme but rhyme that is accepted and not over done.

I think your piece struggled somewhat with the over use of rhyme.
Try writing a piece that does not rhyme so much see how you feel then,Hope this helps Thomas...
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SoundlessFall
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Sun Aug 07, 2005 4:44 pm

The rhyming issue aside I thought there were some fantastic lines in this.

"Romance as damned currency." has a wonderful darkness to it that I would personally have liked to have seen developed a little more. But that really is just my personal taste, a little baroque.

"Do flummox man, more shy than wise" is a great line that delivers more on second reading. One of those lines that creeps in unnoticed into a poem then surprises you. Flimmox is a word I imagine a lot of poets would steer clear of but it works really well here, quite impressive.

SF :D
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Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:30 am

agree with Soundless Fall on expanding on the darkness of the piece, although I personally think it's good to see poets rhyming once in a while - doesn't hurt anybody!

my favourite line was probably "Such gentle form belies all sense, As manufactured fancies tense" - just very neat and concise.

well done, i liked it
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