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The Extent to Love
December 11, 2013
Living death,
Loving hate.
Giving Shame,
To those who arrive too late.
Dying fire,
Living speak.
Giving leave,
To those who’s souls reek.
Joyous sorrow,
Flowering weed,
The heart that I gave you,
You gave me back,
After it began to bleed.
Shy leader,
Blue red rose,
Leave me,
To someone who knows.
Courageous coward,
Dull shine.
It hurt,
The way you ran,
Your knife down my spine.
Wrong right,
Paying thief.
You’ll never know,
The extent to my grief.
© Crystal F., Marshfield, MA
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This is good! I might change the verse 'Joyous sorrow, flowering weed, the heart that I gave you, you gave me back, after it began to bleed' - you have a different rhythm all throughout the poem and it doesn't exactly fit. All in all, though, I think this is a good poem. You might try to clarify your desciptive examples a bit; here and there it gets a bit hard to follow. But otherwise, you have really nice rhythm, and some of your phrases are particularly beautiful.
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