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Missing (Free verse) by Bankrupt_Word_Clerk
Pale light shines through the trees causing your silhouette to glow and pulse with the movement of the forested hillside. I watch you and wonder to myself if you could possibly understand the peace, instability and radiant joy that your presence brings to this pilgrim's soul. Your gentle smile, your calming eyes seem to be all that is left of you in the darkness engulfing me. I can see them though and it is enough. Night falls, light fails, and I stay focused on you. When the fog lifts, I know you will be there. Under the oak, next to my dew-wetted pack lies a flowering ivy that looks a little like you. I draw it in my notebook a memory of what used to be, and still is, infinitely you; Flowers in the morning gloom.

Up the ladder: Exile in New Hamshire
Down the ladder: Eternity

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Arithmetic Mean: 5.0
Weighted score: 5.0
Overall Rank: 7918
Posted: June 10, 2005 1:16 AM PDT; Last modified: June 10, 2005 1:16 AM PDT
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[7] deleted user @ 81.69.23.196 | 10-Jun-05/7:18 AM | Reply
I gave you a seven although I think you're a fraud, B_W_C. Mooning over atrocieties like l_e_b's 'Love is the opposite of hate', and then come up yourself with a poem like this one?
[n/a] Bankrupt_Word_Clerk @ 69.231.16.226 > deleted user | 10-Jun-05/9:47 AM | Reply
Fraud? no. I don't believe I took anything from another poem. struggling poet, yes.
[5] Dovina @ 69.175.32.185 | 10-Jun-05/11:16 AM | Reply
First verse is good. But then it gets wordy and convoluted in places. "I watch you and wonder to myself" for example - is there any way to wonder besides to yourself? And what is this "darkness engulfing me"? Still, the poem has potential.
[n/a] Bankrupt_Word_Clerk @ 69.231.16.226 > Dovina | 10-Jun-05/11:57 AM | Reply
1. no. there is no way to wonder besides to yourself.. unless you say, "i wondered out loud" or something along those lines.
2. The darkness is just dark and fog. the darker it gets the less of her features are available to my eyes.
thanks for your critique.
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