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humanodon  ·  4073 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I Got Mad So I Wrote A Poem

:)

It's hard to say. The one thing I wish I could change about the medium is feedback from readers. It would be awesome (and completely invasive) if a writer (actually no, just me) could see inside the mind of a reader as they read.





_refugee_  ·  4073 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I would go further and edit (this is just me playing. when i go and edit something it's about me putting it in my personal style, I'm not saying I think it would necessarily be better this way - just wanted to see how I'd warp this to my own voice) to this:

    A relationship locks
    eyes across a crowded room. 
    Some beautiful someone,
    the rest of your lives
    imagined for the rest
    of the day. 
It is NOT the same as what you posted though.
humanodon  ·  4073 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's interesting. This construction forces "your" to refer to "A relationship" and "Some beautiful someone", eradicating the implicit "I" of the poem. Also, there is no real "who" to whom the eyes in "eyes across a crowded room" belong to, which forces it to also be a verb in the context of the singular line.

See? Line breaks are wicked important!