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Re: Amanda
« Reply #30 on: January 25, 2011, 04:00:37 pm »
Ooh, I like poems! Who'da thunk it on a calculator website... most of my poems go elsewhere, but I kinda wanna post one. Here is one I kind of like:

             I am I
             By Zeda E.
I do not want to change, but I want to heal,
I want to heal the wounds,
The wounds of discovery,
The discovery of myself.

I walk the dark at night,
The stars my only light,
Facing my daytime pains,
With nighttime questions.

When the world is my problem,
How do I answer the question,
When everybody is the question,
And only the stars are there to guide me?

How do I break away from who I am,
To change the world I live in,
After years of searching for myself,
How can I throw it all away.

I want to change, but I do not want to die,
I do not want to lose who I am,
To lose what I have become,
To lose myself.

I want to cry,
I truly do,
But I cannot,
And so I try,

I look to the sky,
The guidance of my stars,
I look to the ground,
The path of my life.

My eyes won't,
So I let my body,
I let it seperate from me,
I let it lose itself.

I search my soul,
To cut out the cancerous growth,
And I find it,
The patch of life that has been stealing me.

I draw it out,
Separate it from the rest,
And I go to cut,
To hesitate.

It is still a part of me,
How can I cut it out,
Something that has defined me,
For all these years?

Why take the easy way,
And kill myself,
When I can just heal,
The hard way?

So I leave it,
Away from my body,
But still connected,
Healing what I can.

I will be back,
I will take over,
I will be myself,
But for now I am I.

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Re: Amanda
« Reply #31 on: January 25, 2011, 04:09:13 pm »
I do not want to change, but I want to heal,
I want to heal the wounds
The wounds of discovery,
The discovery of myself.
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Re: Amanda
« Reply #32 on: January 25, 2011, 04:10:29 pm »
Yeah, I liked the sound of it when I wrote it, so I kept it. I decided that it would be pretty irritating if the whole poem was that way, though. Thanks! ^-^

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Re: Amanda
« Reply #33 on: January 25, 2011, 04:13:56 pm »
Yeah, I liked the sound of it when I wrote it, so I kept it. I decided that it would be pretty irritating if the whole poem was that way, though. Thanks! ^-^

I always have trouble with rhythm in my poems.
You may notice from "If Only"  I had to make up my own rhyme scheme :banghead:

Ooh, I like poems! Who'da thunk it on a calculator website... most of my poems go elsewhere,

The type of people here, I think this is a very appropriate spot. (Comparing to sports forums and the like)
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Re: Amanda
« Reply #34 on: January 25, 2011, 04:18:55 pm »
Yeah, good point. It's just that I hear people complaining about writing and stuff, so I just assume that this isn't a normal recreational activity. But yeah, it definitely makes more sense here than other places... it's just too bad that more artistically oriented sites don't let us upload programs there... Plus, poetry and math DO go together well...

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Re: Amanda
« Reply #35 on: January 25, 2011, 04:32:42 pm »

When darkness surrounds,
and Death abounds,
and fire and flames come forth from the ground,
the Devil shall rise,
and Heaven shall fall,
and the Angels will sound
their las trumpeting call!
The Devil will scream,
and his demons will fly,
and God will flee,
and wonder why,
he ever let the Devil stay,
the one who said he'd rue the day.
The day the Lucifer fell in flames,
and ended perfection's utopian reign.
And yet, as the final hour draws nigh,
hope will spring form the Devil's eye.
A cursed soul, brought back to reign,
will turn his heart to God again.
And in doing so, will break the spell,
that locked damnation deep in Hell.


I am dramatic.
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Re: Amanda
« Reply #36 on: January 25, 2011, 04:47:01 pm »
Wow. Very nice. That is really good!

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Re: Amanda
« Reply #37 on: January 25, 2011, 04:49:09 pm »
In the silence I stand
Alone, abandoned by friend and ally.
In the face of darkness, of madness,
I stand tall.


Pretty short and simple, but I like it.

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Re: Amanda
« Reply #38 on: January 25, 2011, 04:49:25 pm »
Xeda, that's pretty cool.  I only wonder if it's about an experience or if it's fictional... :D

Binder News, that's awesome. It flows and rhymes its way through to my soul.  Very well written, wow. ;D Excellent poem. ;D

Edit:  I got double ninja'd.  Holmes, that's awesome.  It's cool too. ^-^
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Re: Amanda
« Reply #39 on: January 25, 2011, 04:58:25 pm »
I like it Holmes! In my style, I would have used Abandoned by friend and foe or something like that, usually because my style uses loneliness and solitude, but the way you wrote it sounds like you have been abandoned (but willing) to face everything alone. That's pretty neat in just four lines.

(and by willing, that could be by choice or force, but you have chosen your path and you chose the hard road)

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Re: Amanda
« Reply #40 on: January 25, 2011, 07:09:16 pm »

Shame is what binds us.
Fear is what moves us.
And greed shall force us on.

Joy is what enlightens us.
Freedom is what gives us pleasure.
And hope allows us to dream.

And for all that is evil in this world, hope shall shine, a candle in the dark.
For while hope lives on, so do we.
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Re: Amanda
« Reply #41 on: January 25, 2011, 07:27:24 pm »
      Theirs
When the whole world cares,
When the whole world dares,
Will it be enough to save,
What was never theirs?

Does the world need to die,
Do the children need to cry,
Before our own eyes,
Are no longer dry?

Do we need to lose our humanity,
Or do we need to lose ourselves,
Before we meet insanity,
And become empty shells?

Why can't we share?
Why do we lie?
Where is the world,
That is no longer there?

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Re: Amanda
« Reply #42 on: January 25, 2011, 09:31:36 pm »

Wants and needs,
confused through time,
as equals they are not.

Needs are of sustenance, shelter, and water.
Wants are of toys and games to play.
Needs are of loving, caring, and kindness.
Wants are of showers and baths everyday.

People compare by the things they hold dearest.
And as those are lessened, all people shall find,
Gameboys and jewlery and iPods and purses,
can hold not a candle to a loved one's time.

And so my message is clear as can be.
Important are the needs.

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Re: Amanda
« Reply #43 on: January 25, 2011, 09:38:57 pm »
For whilst this poet rambles on
A lobster sings his lament song
As Astly still trolls by night
Pleading with his banished might

For whilst DJ Omni sits amongst the fray
Waiting, wanting time to say
"Astly's drinking water from a cup
Cause he's Never Gonna Give You Up"
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Re: Amanda
« Reply #44 on: January 25, 2011, 09:48:01 pm »
 :o
I am awed by your talent. That is really awesome ztrumpet! That... that is just... Wow. Too much. Wow.