
07-26-2007, 04:26 PM
Hey. xP
I don't like the first one much. Mostly because - well, while it's very expressive, it's not really a poem. It reads like a letter, or just speech - take out the line breaks, and it's just that.
It seems like a paragraph broken into lines just so that it looks like a poem.
You didn't take to your advantage at all the fact that you are writing a poem - in a poem you should try to express emotion beyond just that which the words are saying - and the best way to do this is with the structure of the poem.
For example, a free-verse poem in which you are writing about confusion may be written in a very confusing, staggered, and jumbled manner. A poem about forgetting could have long blanks in it. A poem about being nervous could have hesitant pauses. Or a poem that's about childhood may be written very simply, with short words, and so on, so forth.
Which is why I like your second one. The pattern of a word, and then an explanation - I think it works. It looks like a term-definition thing, but specific to your situation - which seems like you're trying to clarify things, to explain to your 'friend' what went wrong and how you feel about it, word-by-word. I think this one, more than the first, shows that you're trying to reach this person somehow. While it's not my favorite type of poem, I think it's a really neat and effective format.
I'd only suggest rearranging the order of the words a bit? Of course, I'm not sure what happened, so I'm just guessing - but it should try to follow perhaps your line of thinking during this whole situation. Like it seems to be that 'friends' should come earlier - or, actually, perhaps almost at the very end, before the 'ending' line.
(So, I would place them as: Bitch -> annoyed -> irritated -> apology -> friends -> end. Of course, like I said, I don't know what happened, so if the way you put them is how you want them to be then I understand. xD I just thought 'irritated' looked a bit dull right after the 'friends' - I mean, after being told to 'fuck off' by your friend it seems like you should be more than just irritated.)
Anyway, good luck!
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