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Published: 2011-12-27 08:10:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 264; Favourites: 8; Downloads: 4
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Description Heart half empty
Lungs half full
Temples beating
Eyes over wool

You see that glass?
It's a case of perception
So in my opinion;
Optimism's the deception

Pessimism
A cynic's beauty
A renaissance painting
And ode to deaths duty

Beauty being
In the eye of the beholder
A sightless expression
That seems to smolder

The visual canvas
Tainted with paint
With toxic fumes proving
That art is no saint

Mind half empty
Logic half full
My red sweater a cape
To societies charging bull

A blood sport they say
For entertainment and joy
Beast or man dies
To please an audience so coy

Arena of dust and stone
Crowded with the sadistic
Too engaged for horse races
Are the sociopathic and narcissistic

Those devoted to their mirrors
Standing on a mountain high
Those who can't live without themselves
Won't bid the world goodbye

Glass half empty forever and always
Not enough water to share
Not even empathy given
Absolutely no reason to care

Suddenly there's not a drop;
Sad glass sits drained
Dejected eyes peered up
"I was thirsty," she explained
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Comments: 14

menotmyselfori [2012-01-06 15:42:21 +0000 UTC]

I love the rhyming/four line thing. I'm not sure what it's called, but you did it really well. And I love the last few lines

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paper-doesnt-judge In reply to menotmyselfori [2012-01-07 02:37:54 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! <3

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menotmyselfori In reply to paper-doesnt-judge [2012-02-03 22:21:55 +0000 UTC]


What format is that called though?

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paper-doesnt-judge In reply to menotmyselfori [2012-02-04 00:47:48 +0000 UTC]

Fixed form poem i think with an A B C B rhyme scheme

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menotmyselfori In reply to paper-doesnt-judge [2012-02-10 21:56:42 +0000 UTC]

Hmm thank you!
I don't really know much about poetry...
I can kinda make it rhyme, and about half the time the rhythm is passable, but I didn't really learn properly or anything...
Thank you!

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paper-doesnt-judge In reply to menotmyselfori [2012-02-17 05:33:52 +0000 UTC]

no problem

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menotmyselfori In reply to paper-doesnt-judge [2012-04-08 00:44:39 +0000 UTC]


So
How've you been?
Sorry it took so long to reply...

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paper-doesnt-judge In reply to menotmyselfori [2012-05-14 08:25:24 +0000 UTC]

No worries, i've been quite busy myself >.< i've been okay i guess, and you?

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menotmyselfori In reply to paper-doesnt-judge [2012-05-17 22:06:51 +0000 UTC]

Pretty good!

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Silver-Song-Shifter [2011-12-28 06:16:19 +0000 UTC]

I'm getting a Romanesque feeling here.

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paper-doesnt-judge In reply to Silver-Song-Shifter [2011-12-28 08:09:03 +0000 UTC]

I slight bit(:

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Silver-Song-Shifter In reply to paper-doesnt-judge [2011-12-28 18:29:13 +0000 UTC]

i love it anyway

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paper-doesnt-judge In reply to Silver-Song-Shifter [2011-12-29 03:06:30 +0000 UTC]

Thanks :$

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Silver-Song-Shifter In reply to paper-doesnt-judge [2011-12-29 03:07:25 +0000 UTC]

no problem

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