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Old 01-10-2008, 09:03 AM   #1
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Game Of You

I want
I want to play
I want to play
...a game.
A game of you
where we two are pawns.
Our Minds may be Kings
and our Hearts Queens.
We shall do battle of wits
and emotions
(and sex).
I want to play a game,
and wonder:
am I on the offensive?
Or am I just playing into a trap?
I want to fall for witty tricks
and I want to stand for a feeling.
Will I pull you in, only to check your mate?
Or will I be pushed into the corner,
forced to withdraw?
I want to play a game,
where everything is at risk,
from our hearts to our souls.
I want to play a game, where our blood boils
and our sweat chills us.
I want to play a game,
a game of you.



For once in a very long time, I've written a poem about no one specific. Figured I'd share it here as well as Deviant Art.

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Old 01-11-2008, 03:52 AM   #2
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it's nice , I like it
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Old 01-11-2008, 08:27 AM   #3
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Damn...Great....wow,I'm speachless....lol
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Old 01-11-2008, 11:36 AM   #4
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And here I was expecting The Sandman, Vol. 5.
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Old 01-11-2008, 12:13 PM   #5
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very different from what I normally read, but I really like it
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Old 01-12-2008, 01:29 AM   #6
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A game of chess where more tha your pride is at stake....I find it quite joyfull...In my own twisted sence of joy.....
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Old 01-12-2008, 08:43 PM   #7
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And here I was expecting The Sandman, Vol. 5.
Me too. *sob*

Anyway. I'm anything but a poetry critic, but it had a rather interesting sound to it. Or a feel or something. It was exciting, in a way, if a bit awkwardly phrased.
Mhm.
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Old 01-13-2008, 12:10 AM   #8
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I had actually completely forgotten that Sandman Vol. 5 was called Game of You. Now I guess I know where I got the name from. Thank you all for the comments. Does anyone have any recommendations for it?
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Old 01-13-2008, 01:57 AM   #9
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You can do far more than you're doing with the relationship-as-game metaphor. For the reader, a lot of things you state are already evoked by the initial association of human interaction with game of chess- we've all played strategy games before, we experience the sensation of worrying whether you're walking into a trap, switching frantically between the defensive and offensive. I'd suggest you delete everything after "and our hearts queens", then write more as though you'd already said everything you say in the omitted bit, because, in truth, you have. Perhaps extrapolate on the idea of wanting the opponent/lover to win to which you just alluded, that's interesting.
Whatever the direction in which you decide to go, this bit:

Quote:
I want to play a game,
where everything is at risk,
from our hearts to our souls.
I want to play a game, where our blood boils
and our sweat chills us.
I want to play a game,
a game of you.
Is just pure cliche and should be scrapped.
Good luck with it.
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Old 01-13-2008, 12:27 PM   #10
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Comparing anything to chess is always a nice metaphor, as chess is the epitome of western thought. But writing about moves as imagery... it sounds too systematic.
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Is just pure cliche and should be scrapped.
Good luck with it.
The whole METAPHOR of love as a game is cliched. I'm not saying it can't be done, but I'm of the mind that if you do want to take it on, you can't get away with being this explicit.

How about doing it a little more subtly, like writing the poem as a description of two lovers playing chess, and working the love story into the literal game?
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It would be good as song lyrics.
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Old 01-14-2008, 09:37 AM   #13
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Thank you all for the advice and recommendations. I was afraid that it was too cliche. I'll try to play with it and see if I can make it a little less... Cheese-tastic.
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