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Voted Blippy and Madding. Blippy for writing a dark poem that took me on a wonderfully whimsical ride by the end, and Madding for writing a poem that I can certainly identify with.
As far as the other poems, I like Yanni's, though it seemed a little ranty. I feel like La Notte Divina is probably really profound but I guess I'm just missing it. Zaph almost got my vote, but for whatever reason that last line just ruins the poem for me. It's like, I shouldn't have to be told to think about a poem I guess.
Fracture by Aesnath was just kinda sad to me, but didn't incite much more emotion. Zelderex you had a really good poem, but I just didn't like the title.
I found that No Heroes insisted upon itself.
Wasn't going to vote Guilan's poem regardless, but it wouldn't have got my vote even if I liked the poem better, simply because you felt the need to tell us you thought you should win this week. I hope to win every week with my poem, but don't feel the need to advertise that. There is no reason to make that statement other than you are trying to garner more votes, so you lost mine. Nothing personal matey.
Edit: Also I'm first! Ha!
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Wasn't going to vote Guilan's poem regardless, but it wouldn't have got my vote even if I liked the poem better, simply because you felt the need to tell us you thought you should win this week. I hope to win every week with my poem, but don't feel the need to advertise that. There is no reason to make that statement other than you are trying to garner more votes, so you lost mine. Nothing personal matey.
I admit, I didn't had any intentions to win this round, just because I did not write in English for this round.
that aside,
The poems I enjoyed the most for this round are "In the Dark with a Knife" and "Organ Harvest" one has the perfect climax and the other a very nice word-playing that I like to use often in my poems.
I admit, I didn't had any intentions to win this round, just because I did not write in English for this round.
that aside,
The poems I enjoyed the most for this round are "In the Dark with a Knife" and "Organ Harvest" one has the perfect climax and the other a very nice word-playing that I like to use often in my poems.
Well I apologize for missing your tongue in cheekness :embarrass:.
Still my votes would probably be the same.
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It's not about that. I don't write magic card poems-- concordant means connecting, or agreement; it's a conceit about a lowly and weak man stared at by a predatory woman, the modern primative humans figuratively represented through the natural order of a midnight woods.
2 chainz and Blippy got it from me this time.
I usually like kpacz poems and this one was not an exception.
Blippy's made me feel gross. Physical feelings as reactions frmo poems are always a good indicator of the quality.
My poem was intended to be ranty. It was not intended to feel like a punk song. I was just mad at how parents can let their kids get so fat and then complain about it.
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I just fell in love with Youth. Simple, elegant, refined and to a degree, nostalgic.
I was between Organ Harvest and No Heroes, very close. Organ Harvest was easily the most evocative, and the twist at the end made for an experience. I chose No Heroes because of the actual emotion behind it. Something about watching the things you respect and admire fade away struck a chord in me.
In The Dark With a Knife was one of the stronger pieces this week, but I felt like if I was gonna vote for a shock poem, it might as well be Organ Harvest (which I didn't choose). This one definitely had a bit more artistic merit, just a weird read.
I loved La Notte Divina, but it just happened to show up in a week of strong entries.
I'm particularly fond of the piece I submitted this week. It felt more elegant than most of my poems, and it was definitely one of my most polished yet. Very dark week for a lot of us it seems, as this was one of 2 poems about suicide, 3 about disillusionment, and one of six at least slightly depressing poems. I could write some pretentious trash about the symbolism and metaphor and personal meaning of the poem; or I could put that effort into my next poem. And yes, I know it had a bad title.
****, I'll write some pretentious trash about the metaphor and personal meaning of my poem.
2 weeks ago the actual girl of my dreams ultimately spurned me after a whirlwind romance between her and myself. This is a poem about a guy who kills a girl while she watches tv with him in the dark, and then he eats her. I was hoping for a parallel between "best milk" and "breast milk".
I wanted her to die, and simultaneously wanted to eat her if you catch my drift. That was the inspiration.
So there you go.
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****, I'll write some pretentious trash about the metaphor and personal meaning of my poem.
2 weeks ago the actual girl of my dreams ultimately spurned me after a whirlwind romance between her and myself. This is a poem about a guy who kills a girl while she watches tv with him in the dark, and then he eats her. I was hoping for a parallel between "best milk" and "breast milk".
I wanted her to die, and simultaneously wanted to eat her if you catch my drift. That was the inspiration.
So there you go.
2.) You know you're ****ed in the head when you can read something like that and say to yourself, "I know the feel bro."
1.) As long as we're explaining our particular insanities...
My poem was about how Cynicism keeps my head above water, but keeps my dreams out of the clouds. I wrote it about how circular my life, thoughts and feelings are. I'm spiteful of the depressed, thinking "Just get the **** over it, or at least find a quiet corner to repress it," which keeps me from ever reaching that sort of low, but it also makes me spiteful of the blindly happy, thinking "Where the **** do you get off? So I get to have some demons and bitter memories, while you get to frolic in the fields of joy?"
In that sense, the poem is about how I'm the disease and the cure. At the start, I'm just sitting around being bitter, studying myself and my life as usual. But for once, I "Look in the Mirror," and don't hate what I see. That's symbolic for a period of emotional and social prosperity, which was more or less the month or so before I wrote that poem. Not too long after I experience relief from my hatred and loathing, I'm suddenly plunged into depression (as a result of me lowering my guards and raising my expectations) that I could never let myself slip into before. I promptly take the same Cynicism (Jade Colored Glasses) that I had gotten rid of shortly before, as they were hindering my happiness, and tried to use them to end my sorrow.
But before I ever reach the point of suicide, I simply regress into cynicism again, thinking to myself, "What kind of tool kills themselves? ****, I bet I can't even do a very good job of it anyway."
ohmigawd Zelderex just explained my life.
All of my friends get mad at me because I'm super cynical IRL but it's really just a safety thing.
Like you asid, it keeps my dreams and goals realistic. It also keeps me from being super sad because "someone has it worse than I do"
Yay being emotionally even kleed.
Now looking at 2 Chainz poem through that lens I really feel where he was coming from. the prcs that I've won have been about loss and dealing with it in a non-angry way. Definitly happy about my vote now.
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Jeez, but there were a lot of fine entries this week. In the end I went with Madding and Blippy. Madding's offering was, I don't know, intriguing and elegant. Blippy had me the entire time and the switch at the end was unexpected.
I'd also like to call out Darkwater's entry as I appreciated the starkness of it and the feeling of being small and in awe of something larger. Zaph's entry was also clever and well written.
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Goodness, a lot of good poems this round. I voted for Madding and kpaca but there were several others that deserved votes. x.x
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my mouth is full of winsome lies -
and eyes are full of death besides
but luckily the soul is wise -
it sees beyond my blindness and
forced failure makes a better guise,
so as i come again alive,
it feels like life's a decent plan
I voted for kpaca and DarkwaterElemental, the latter being my favorite. I found the last line of La Notta Divina especially powerful.
Kpaca, I feel like the last line of your poem isn't really necessary. I liked the rest of the poem enough for a vote though.
My third favorite was Blippy's, but I would have liked it more if the story revealed what it was talking about organically instead of the reader having to be told so. I think the surprise would have been better/more fun that way.
Guilan, I love a poem in native tongue! I did not much like what I read in translation, though. Maybe some of it was lost on me. I wanted to vote for it but couldn't.
I actually liked the "Are you afraid of the dark" style that The Organ Grinder had. That got my first vote.
My next vote went to Fracture because although simple, and not very verbose, I swear I feel THAT WAY almost everyday and I am always wondering when I'm just going to crack wide open and swallow myself.
As far as me repeating the third stanza in No Heroes ...I actually am writing songs. Almost all of my poems are set to music when I write them, some are raps, some are soft, some are rock. I know for some people they don't like that, but its how I write.
I do like that we are getting many entries lately. A good sign for sure.
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“Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments
are we bound to prosperity and ruin.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Here are the submissions we have for you this week:
Youth by Madding
In the dark with a knife by kpaca
Organ Harvest by BlippyTheSlug
Fracture by Aesnath
Debilitação Lógica by Guilan
Pessimists SUCK at making shivs :| by Zelderex
La Notte Divina by DarkwaterElemental
The Organ Grinder by Zaph
Two Cheeseburgers, A Large Fire, and A 42 Ounce Drink by Yanni
No Heroes by IcecreamMan80
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As far as the other poems, I like Yanni's, though it seemed a little ranty. I feel like La Notte Divina is probably really profound but I guess I'm just missing it. Zaph almost got my vote, but for whatever reason that last line just ruins the poem for me. It's like, I shouldn't have to be told to think about a poem I guess.
Fracture by Aesnath was just kinda sad to me, but didn't incite much more emotion. Zelderex you had a really good poem, but I just didn't like the title.
I found that No Heroes insisted upon itself.
Wasn't going to vote Guilan's poem regardless, but it wouldn't have got my vote even if I liked the poem better, simply because you felt the need to tell us you thought you should win this week. I hope to win every week with my poem, but don't feel the need to advertise that. There is no reason to make that statement other than you are trying to garner more votes, so you lost mine. Nothing personal matey.
Edit: Also I'm first! Ha!
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I admit, I didn't had any intentions to win this round, just because I did not write in English for this round.
that aside,
The poems I enjoyed the most for this round are "In the Dark with a Knife" and "Organ Harvest" one has the perfect climax and the other a very nice word-playing that I like to use often in my poems.
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Well I apologize for missing your tongue in cheekness :embarrass:.
Still my votes would probably be the same.
It's not about that. I don't write magic card poems-- concordant means connecting, or agreement; it's a conceit about a lowly and weak man stared at by a predatory woman, the modern primative humans figuratively represented through the natural order of a midnight woods.
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I usually like kpacz poems and this one was not an exception.
Blippy's made me feel gross. Physical feelings as reactions frmo poems are always a good indicator of the quality.
My poem was intended to be ranty. It was not intended to feel like a punk song. I was just mad at how parents can let their kids get so fat and then complain about it.
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I was between Organ Harvest and No Heroes, very close. Organ Harvest was easily the most evocative, and the twist at the end made for an experience. I chose No Heroes because of the actual emotion behind it. Something about watching the things you respect and admire fade away struck a chord in me.
In The Dark With a Knife was one of the stronger pieces this week, but I felt like if I was gonna vote for a shock poem, it might as well be Organ Harvest (which I didn't choose). This one definitely had a bit more artistic merit, just a weird read.
I loved La Notte Divina, but it just happened to show up in a week of strong entries.
I'm particularly fond of the piece I submitted this week. It felt more elegant than most of my poems, and it was definitely one of my most polished yet. Very dark week for a lot of us it seems, as this was one of 2 poems about suicide, 3 about disillusionment, and one of six at least slightly depressing poems. I could write some pretentious trash about the symbolism and metaphor and personal meaning of the poem; or I could put that effort into my next poem. And yes, I know it had a bad title.
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2 weeks ago the actual girl of my dreams ultimately spurned me after a whirlwind romance between her and myself. This is a poem about a guy who kills a girl while she watches tv with him in the dark, and then he eats her. I was hoping for a parallel between "best milk" and "breast milk".
I wanted her to die, and simultaneously wanted to eat her if you catch my drift. That was the inspiration.
So there you go.
2.) You know you're ****ed in the head when you can read something like that and say to yourself, "I know the feel bro."
1.) As long as we're explaining our particular insanities...
My poem was about how Cynicism keeps my head above water, but keeps my dreams out of the clouds. I wrote it about how circular my life, thoughts and feelings are. I'm spiteful of the depressed, thinking "Just get the **** over it, or at least find a quiet corner to repress it," which keeps me from ever reaching that sort of low, but it also makes me spiteful of the blindly happy, thinking "Where the **** do you get off? So I get to have some demons and bitter memories, while you get to frolic in the fields of joy?"
In that sense, the poem is about how I'm the disease and the cure. At the start, I'm just sitting around being bitter, studying myself and my life as usual. But for once, I "Look in the Mirror," and don't hate what I see. That's symbolic for a period of emotional and social prosperity, which was more or less the month or so before I wrote that poem. Not too long after I experience relief from my hatred and loathing, I'm suddenly plunged into depression (as a result of me lowering my guards and raising my expectations) that I could never let myself slip into before. I promptly take the same Cynicism (Jade Colored Glasses) that I had gotten rid of shortly before, as they were hindering my happiness, and tried to use them to end my sorrow.
But before I ever reach the point of suicide, I simply regress into cynicism again, thinking to myself, "What kind of tool kills themselves? ****, I bet I can't even do a very good job of it anyway."
So yeah.
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All of my friends get mad at me because I'm super cynical IRL but it's really just a safety thing.
Like you asid, it keeps my dreams and goals realistic. It also keeps me from being super sad because "someone has it worse than I do"
Yay being emotionally even kleed.
Now looking at 2 Chainz poem through that lens I really feel where he was coming from. the prcs that I've won have been about loss and dealing with it in a non-angry way. Definitly happy about my vote now.
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I'd also like to call out Darkwater's entry as I appreciated the starkness of it and the feeling of being small and in awe of something larger. Zaph's entry was also clever and well written.
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Yeah, we're up to 10 already now. Maybe we could split off into PRC 141 immediately, so there isn't a week's backlog?
and eyes are full of death besides
but luckily the soul is wise -
it sees beyond my blindness and
forced failure makes a better guise,
so as i come again alive,
it feels like life's a decent plan
Kpaca, I feel like the last line of your poem isn't really necessary. I liked the rest of the poem enough for a vote though.
My third favorite was Blippy's, but I would have liked it more if the story revealed what it was talking about organically instead of the reader having to be told so. I think the surprise would have been better/more fun that way.
Guilan, I love a poem in native tongue! I did not much like what I read in translation, though. Maybe some of it was lost on me. I wanted to vote for it but couldn't.
My next vote went to Fracture because although simple, and not very verbose, I swear I feel THAT WAY almost everyday and I am always wondering when I'm just going to crack wide open and swallow myself.
As far as me repeating the third stanza in No Heroes ...I actually am writing songs. Almost all of my poems are set to music when I write them, some are raps, some are soft, some are rock. I know for some people they don't like that, but its how I write.
I do like that we are getting many entries lately. A good sign for sure.
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“Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments
are we bound to prosperity and ruin.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein