Ah. When you have quotes within quotes, you just do single quotes for the interior one. Allow me to give an example:Hitokiri wrote:Anna Mae wrote:""Momma, Where Do You Lock Away the Sadness?"" Why is the title in double quotes?
I meant it to be like someone is asking it. So someone, in the title, is doing the talking.
You have become numb to others' suffering?Hitokiri wrote:Anna Mae wrote:and another hundred or so people were killedWhat a good, enjoyable topic.
Indeed and thier is a reason behind that.
How interesting.Hitokiri wrote:The cross, to me, indictates pain that Christ endured. So, I think by putting the cross to something else indicates a high level pain. By rebeling God, that becomes painful.
I am not certain that I understand.Hitokiri wrote:What I see this as is all the stuff I go through and yet I try and not to make it better.
So, you are saying that you like to move on once people have died; you prefer to do what you can for the people you can still help instead of dwelling in the past?Hitokiri wrote:I don't care when people die yet I care about people.
Anna Mae wrote:Ah. When you have quotes within quotes, you just do single quotes for the interior one. Allow me to give an example:
"Then he said, 'I like dogs!'" she explained.
In this case I would advise you to format the title like so: "Momma, Where Do You Lock Away the Sadness?"
You have become numb to others' suffering?
I am not certain that I understand.
Anna Mae wrote:TOLKIEN!!!!Hurrah!
I have some punctuation suggestions for clarity that I will be making note of in the poem
Snow and ice, men do fear (They fear the snow and ice, Northern Wastes, or both? Please rephrase to carify.)
fairyprincess90 wrote:::sigh::
i wish i could write as good as you do!!!
good stufff!
Oh, I just realized that I made a mistake in my example. I omitted a space between the quotation marks. It should read: "Then he said, 'I like dogs!' " she explained.Hitokiri wrote:Anna Mae wrote:Ah. When you have quotes within quotes, you just do single quotes for the interior one. Allow me to give an example:
"Then he said, 'I like dogs!'" she explained.
In this case I would advise you to format the title like so: "Momma, Where Do You Lock Away the Sadness?"
Thanks
Yes, well, I had THE grammar nazi for an English teacher last year (She even accepts the name!). That was a crazy year.Hitokiri wrote:I am not a grammar nazi.
Anna Mae wrote:Feasts in it's the halls of spring.[/b]This line does not make sense.
Th elast great forest of Middle-EarthTypo, I believe.
From the powers of the Whote Council. I trust you mean White Council.
I looked at them in disgust.[b]You switch from present tense to past tense here. Is that just part of the trippy-ness of the dream?
I took a brush to this palletAnd we're back in the past.
Lies a foundering sea.Do you mean 'floundering?'
Interesting. Very dreamlike.
Anna Mae wrote:I have learned a new word today.
I found it rather clever.Anna Mae wrote:"This Is Long" Interesting title.
Ahhh I see. Maybe "I wrote out my memoirs."?I sat down one night
Writing down my memoirs I would advise not using he word 'down' twice in such quick succession.
They seemed to whisper my sins. Why do you suddenly start to use
periods? I would use them in all of the poem or not at all.
I dived into Do you mean to have 'into' twice in a row?
Into my hole I had dug for myself.
I saw many faces whom I loved
But all died from my words They died from words that you uttered after arriving in the hole, or previously?
I saw my children and my wife Call me unobservant, but I did not know that you were married and had kids.
My mother, father, and sister
They seemed riddled in pain
Yet relishing in the sensation They were enjoying it, or you were?
I stared into their heartless heart Collectively they only have one heart?
I loved with a black half-heart You performed the action of loving with a black half-heart, or you bowed with a black half-heart? Your line break leaves this ambiguous.
Heavenly airs to me tells that the location that is being indicated means it's VERY high in the sky. I am not sure if I am the only one who looks at it this way.I fell further and further
Until I found myself in the heavenly airs You were in heaven (In which case it is below the Earth... or below the plane of your emotions), or 'airs' as in puttings-on?
I honestly can tell what I meant there hahaAbove the pagan kingdoms of the world So you operate on a totally different plane?
The guys bloodlineI hid myself and my line Your bloodline?
And the world I created What world? The hole?
Fell down like a stage curtain Oh. You hid the world along with yourself and your line, or the world fell? Punctuation would clarify.
"What I disturbed man?" This question does not make sense.
"He was crazy!"Was? You died, or your acting was weird?
Standing alone on the stage of life Does this mean that you feel that your life is an act?
So I tried to recall the joy I felt
I had none
Save for when I saw my mother's face
From the wombInteresting. Please comment.
Blotted my ink and I sank in a heap Does this mean that emotion spoiled your work?
This is certainly a most interesting poem. I would like to hear you talk about it. Does it have to do with your Emotions thread in the prayer forum?
Aha.Wow - lots of comments! Basically I write poems abou tme but some are not about me....this one is not. It's about a guy who is just lost in his thoughts. He goes to remember them but he spirals out of control and get's lost in his confusion.
I just thought of this: do you really mean to have multiple memoirs, do you just mean memories? I would say "To write out my memoir."Maybe "I wrote out my memoirs."?
It seemed odd to me because I think of a hole as going downward, and so for it to open above everything did not make sense. However, that is alright because the poem is trippy.Heavenly airs to me tells that the location that is being indicated means it's VERY high in the sky. I am not sure if I am the only one who looks at it this way.
But what about the I?"What I disturbed man?" This question does not make sense.
Typo. Supposed to be a "!".
I suppose that it is correct.He is crazy in general is the question. Being afterwards, it's only appropriate for that to be past tense correct?
Anna Mae wrote:But what about the I?
Anna Mae wrote:"Mark of Necrosis" Mark of death. Hmm.
Beneath the whitest snow
Secret catacombs built long ago
Hushed screams trapped within
Our life's end is about to begin. The poem would flow better if you made it a complete sentence.
So, what does it mean?
Anna Mae wrote:To me, heath always sounds poetic however she hides herself away into a place that is wild and alone.She hides herself in the heath Why did you choose heath?In her moment of desapir So the baby died?
No, not really. I was more leaning towards her depair in bearing a child.God has rejected her I expect I'll hear a good reason...
This was just something I wanted to write to try and combine my poetical elements and my favorite book of the Bible, Lamentations. So alot of it can be drawn towards the subject matter of Lamentations and Isreal being cut off from God. As well, the notion of being rejected by God and being cut off, to me, has a huge impact which can be applied to somethings such as a mother rejecting her child. Though we know God does not reject us though we may percieve he has for the time being.Sleeping with her enemies In the euphamistic sense, I presume.
Yes. A act of trying to appease her sins.Feeding off her babies So she runs away from the enemy camp and then practices cannibalism on her children in order to survive?
Yes, metaphorically. I wrote this poem in a metaphircal sense.For she has rebuked him Are you referencing the blaspheming the Holy Spirit thing?
Maybe, not sure.A princess raped and beaten Yes, which is true. Maybe a self-injure type thing?[/quo That would be a better way to go I think.How does she life? This line doesn't make sense.
I meant "live"?God gave her a hand but she used it for sin.God gave her a hand This line and the next seem odd. Please explain.God gave her a mouth I might change 'mouth' to 'voice' or 'song.'
Yeah that sounds better.Her children will fail But they've all been eaten by now anyway...
Yeah, that should go before the eating haha.Lost among the deepest pits of hatred, For getting the first period of the poem, her gone-ness isn't very final.
Any periods is purely my habit of adding them haha.I licked it up while crying But now why did you lick it up?
Because despite the fact it hurts you, you are still want it.Oh god of misfortune So you are not addressing YHWH here.
No, I am not.The vileness seeps down its inner walls
Drowns in a metaphircal sense.It swallow its pride Why does the waterfall have to swollow its pride?]b]
Sorry I didn't make this clear. The child is the subject.I stand there naked [b]You, the child, or have you gone inside yourself?
MyselfThese chambers of filth and slime [b]I'm surprised that you haven't used the words putrid or cesspool yet.
Haha.Love one love one This line does not make sense.
I love you my love one Do you mean 'loved one?'
I only loved once
Yeah, this is my least favorite part and would change this first if I rewrote this.
and now I have to die
on this pyre of bones and gold
And a broken godWho failed me
and whom I have failed. Who failed first?
Both did at the same time.What was the meaning of this poem?
Interesting. Please elaborate.Hitokiri wrote:Thanks. I have been re-reading what I wrote and I started to not like it as much. Sure, I like...kinda graphic writing but the main reason why I write is to expose a certain beauty but this isn't exactly it.
Hitokiti wrote:Thanks though.
Anna Mae wrote:Interesting. Please elaborate.
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