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When You Wish (Free verse) by Enkidu
I watched a star It wasn’t really shooting More sinking, drooping Sucking the light From the sky it passed As it broke the horizon Dropping fast I wished upon the star To wonder Like a child Bright and younger And to my satisfaction Found the other Stars to follow that falling, shooting star That keeps my mind Doubting, hollow

Up the ladder: The Grip
Down the ladder: Explain him

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Arithmetic Mean: 4.0
Weighted score: 4.9525743
Overall Rank: 8784
Posted: June 2, 2006 11:21 AM PDT; Last modified: June 2, 2006 11:21 AM PDT
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[8] Ranger @ 62.252.32.15 | 2-Jun-06/11:29 AM | Reply
Catchy, although the flow could be worked on in a few places - for example the first line's pretty abrupt. Maybe make it: 'I watched a star that/wasn't really shooting...' Nice rhymes though and the end has a decent ambiguity to it; the contrast between not believing something and still having that glimmer of hope that the mysteries you believed in as a child might just be true. Or something like that.
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