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Jillian May Scortfil 08-27-2008 04:03 AM

Poem (short of): "Lullaby of death"
 
- Lullaby of death -

Shine, shine, oh darksome stars
Whine, whine for all your scars
Stay, stay up in the sky
Play, play that lullaby

Twist and turn around your bed
Sleep alive and wake up dead
Dance and hop around the floor
Step outside of the front door

Go and gaze up at the moon
Everyone thinks that you’re a loon
Lovely lullaby of death
Sing along with your last breath

Once you hear it, you will cry
Twice you hear it, you’ll still cry
Thrice you hear it; then you die
This is death’s sweet lullaby

I am but a poor storyteller
My stories can get no better
I will pay the lullaby’s price
For now I have heard it thrice...

Sir Canvas Corpsey 08-27-2008 04:43 AM

Quote:

Once you hear it, you will cry
Twice you hear it, you’ll still cry
Is a really really weak line in my eyes, the repetition was done atrociously and it craps up the rhythm in my head.

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I am but a poor storyteller
My stories can get no better
and
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I will pay the lullaby’s price
For now I have heard it thrice...
do not flow into each other and the ending is also pretty weak it seems like you were going for that dramatic and epic finish and you fell short, by a large margin.

Quote:

wake up dead
I didn't think it was possible to do so.

Jillian May Scortfil 08-27-2008 05:22 AM

well, all this was just what came out of my mind... i have warned you, i'm a strange person with strange thinking, and not all people can understand me... you just happen to be one of those who fail to estimate me... however, i do have to thank you for your comment, even if it was not what i would expect... :) thanks again!

Jillian May Scortfil 08-27-2008 05:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Sir Canvas Corpsey
I didn't think it was possible to do so.

this line, "sleep alive and wake up dead", is not exactly literal, it's more of a "sleep as a human and wake up as a vampire/living dead" thing...

Sir Canvas Corpsey 08-27-2008 01:51 PM

Hun, you're not that strange or weird, in fact this whole thing is pretty damn generic and you assume I fail to "estimate" you, and that is an insult to me.

Also if that is the meaning of
"wake up dead"
then what the fuck is it doing in this poem, where do the vampires and living dead fit in, why do have to be referenced like that?

Sir_Vex 08-28-2008 09:22 AM

I'm sorry, I thought this was boring and bland. The concept could potentially work, but I think you are using cliched imagery.

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Originally Posted by Jillian May Scortfil
I am but a poor storyteller
My stories can get no better

This part particularly, in re-reading it.

Jillian May Scortfil 08-28-2008 10:17 AM

okay, whatever... this is my poem... if you like it, fine... if you don't, i'm fine again! :)

Godslayer Jillian 08-28-2008 10:21 AM

True shakespearean attitude, huh?

Jillian May Scortfil 08-28-2008 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Godslayer Jillian
True shakespearean attitude, huh?

hmm... i'd say so, yeah! :D haha

Godslayer Jillian 08-29-2008 08:15 AM

Wow... what the hell...

LiUsAiDh 08-29-2008 08:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Jillian May Scortfil
well, all this was just what came out of my mind... i have warned you, i'm a strange person with strange thinking, and not all people can understand me...

You're not 'strange', 'misunderstood' or any of that bullshit, you just can't take criticism. That doesn't make you special.

BloodyLivingVampire 08-30-2008 08:55 AM

I think it's nice :-)

Sir_Vex 08-30-2008 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by LiUsAiDh
You're not 'strange', 'misunderstood' or any of that bullshit, you just can't take criticism. That doesn't make you special.

Exactly. You pointed out what I was thinking of saying.

Godslayer Jillian 08-31-2008 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by BloodyLivingVampire
I think it's nice :-)

Of course you do.

Fatbaby 09-01-2008 01:35 PM

This must be one of your first poems. Who is your favorite poet?

The Antichrist 09-04-2008 11:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jillian May Scortfil
- Lullaby of death -

Shine, shine, oh darksome stars
Whine, whine for all your scars
Stay, stay up in the sky
Play, play that lullaby

Twist and turn around your bed
Sleep alive and wake up dead
Dance and hop around the floor
Step outside of the front door

Go and gaze up at the moon
Everyone thinks that you’re a loon
Lovely lullaby of death
Sing along with your last breath

Once you hear it, you will cry
Twice you hear it, you’ll still cry
Thrice you hear it; then you die
This is death’s sweet lullaby

I am but a poor storyteller
My stories can get no better
I will pay the lullaby’s price
For now I have heard it thrice...

I like it.

Jillian May Scortfil 09-05-2008 02:14 PM

To: Fatbaby

I've written a lot of poems, this is definitely not my first... My favourite poets are two: Edgar Allan Poe and William Blake.

To: The Antichrist

Thank you, sweetheart! :)

a morbid curiosity 09-05-2008 03:04 PM

It wasn't necessarily a bad poem. You definitely need to work on your imagery, though. Steer clear of all that darkness and death stuff, because you seem to have picked up quite a few bad habits there.
Write a poem with completely different themes, or use a metaphor. Don't copy one from anyone else.

If you're stuck for ideas, try a spider diagram. Write your central theme, and then write all of the words you associate with it until you come to something completely different that you could write about, or use it as a metaphor.

Also, writing always gets better as you grow more mature. The more you write, the better you'll get. Good luck.
:D

Jillian May Scortfil 09-06-2008 06:45 AM

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Originally Posted by a morbid curiosity
It wasn't necessarily a bad poem. You definitely need to work on your imagery, though. Steer clear of all that darkness and death stuff, because you seem to have picked up quite a few bad habits there.
Write a poem with completely different themes, or use a metaphor. Don't copy one from anyone else.

If you're stuck for ideas, try a spider diagram. Write your central theme, and then write all of the words you associate with it until you come to something completely different that you could write about, or use it as a metaphor.

Also, writing always gets better as you grow more mature. The more you write, the better you'll get. Good luck.
:D


thanks for the advice! i'll do as you suggest, and see what comes out of it! :D

a morbid curiosity 09-06-2008 06:53 AM

Oh, it was no problem.

Jillian May Scortfil 09-06-2008 07:21 AM

eheeheeh! :D

Despanan 09-06-2008 08:36 AM

This sounds like a song, not a poem.

Come to think of it, I've been seeing that a lot lately. I'm wondering if it's because so many middle and highschoolers don't actually read much poetry, and thus the majority of their interaction with lyrical prose is through pop music.

a morbid curiosity 09-06-2008 09:14 AM

^
It's very true. Not only that, but the lyrical prose of the pop music they listen to is awful. I've read far too many poems by people whose main influences happen to be My Chemical Romance or Fall Out Boy.

I do know a boy whose interest in black metal enables him to write quite interesting poetry and lyrics because it allows him to have an extensive vocabulary, but that's another story.

ScorchedEarthErotica 09-06-2008 07:32 PM

i liked it alot

Jillian May Scortfil 09-07-2008 02:57 AM

To: ScorchedEarthErotica

Thanks! (By the way, this is one of my favourite songs! :D)


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