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I am the master of incompletion!Or rather, am complete,
but drawn to incompletion as the opposite end of a magnet.
My glory is in that which has no future:
should anything come to an end, and a good one,
it is nothing of mine;
For I am two-thirds a fairytale ending,
“ever after” without “happily.”
(That is not to say tragically! Both imply a conclusion.
A better adverb is “indefinitely.”
Indefinitely ever after.)
I am living that work which is never quite done,
left on a shelf to be perfected "whenever."
I am that unskilled playwright,
at the end of whose play a hundred plot-strings are left untied.
Nothing is more inevitable or as mind-bendingly impossible to find as the future.
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anelle [2009-07-30 17:22:04 +0000 UTC]
Lovely!
As someone else mentioned, I really enjoyed this part:
For I am two-thirds a fairytale ending,
“ever after” without “happily.”
(That is not to say tragically! Both imply a conclusion.
A better adverb is “indefinitely.”
Indefinitely ever after.)
Also:
"but drawn to incompletion as the opposite end of a magnet." Beautiful work!
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Formlessforce In reply to anelle [2009-07-30 17:38:08 +0000 UTC]
Thank you Those are some of the lines I'm proudest of.
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SavingCleo [2009-07-30 04:19:00 +0000 UTC]
For I am two-thirds a fairytale ending,
“ever after” without “happily.”
^^ that is my favorite line
I really like this.
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Formlessforce In reply to SavingCleo [2009-07-30 04:21:38 +0000 UTC]
Thank you for the comment! I love it when people tell me WHAT they like about something I've written, it lets me know it's not just a generic "I just sorta skimmed, but I guess it's cool. CHECK OUT MY STUFF NOW PLZ" comment xD
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SavingCleo In reply to Formlessforce [2009-07-30 04:30:32 +0000 UTC]
You're welcome.
Ha, I know what you mean.
Personally, I could care less if people check my stuff out or not. My DA account is for me to check other people's stuff out and occasionally post a random piece of my own work.
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IIIXII [2009-07-29 21:56:12 +0000 UTC]
That last line is phenomenal.
This is mind blowing-ly well written.
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Formlessforce In reply to IIIXII [2009-07-29 21:57:50 +0000 UTC]
Thank you, thank you!
I have many more poems waiting in the hopper, so to speak. I don't want to get too crazy posting them until I actually get some readers, so I'm limiting myself to one a day.
I have one called "The Formless Force"
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IIIXII In reply to Formlessforce [2009-07-29 22:13:32 +0000 UTC]
Oooh, I should make a poem after my namesake. ^^
And yeah, that's what I do. Can't wait to read them though.
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