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A Solitaire Rose

Member since 2003 · Posted 20 Sep 2003 · 3 comments

A solitaire rose that comes from my heart so that our souls are never apart. A single rose for your eyes so divine, that when I picked it, I wished they were mine. A lonely rose that comes from my soul and winning your love is its ultimate goal.

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3 comments

[n/a] red 20-Sep-03/9:26 AM Reply
i wrote this about 10 years ago
[n/a] EAger to Offend › red 20-Sep-03/12:40 PM Reply
(X) Cliched excuse
[9] -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 20-Sep-03/11:43 AM Reply
[X] AABB rhyming scheme
[X] About romantic love
[_] About poetry-writing
[_] About suicide or self-mutilation
[_] Arbitrary indentation
[_] Arbitrary line breaks
[_] Autobiographical but in the third person
[X] Clerical errors
[X] Cliched imagery (staring out of window, pits of despair)
[X] Cliched rhymes (love/above etc.)
[X] Devoid of alliteration or any such linguistic embellishments
[_] Devoid of rhyme
[_] Devoid of simile, reification or any such literary devices
[X] Devoid of wond'rous or fantastical imagery
[_] Drug references
[_] Elves, unicorns, etc.
[_] Exclamation points used to mark 'the funny bits'
[_] Insipidly whimsical or zany
[_] Leaving rant
[_] Lower case only
[_] Melodramatic
[X] Naively religious or superstitious
[_] Obsessed with femininity
[_] Overabundance of ellipses
[_] Overuse of 'depression' words (putrid, wretched, darkness, etc)
[_] Pointedly unanswered questions
[_] Protagonist has a smug name
[_] Rage against the machine
[_] References to the author's 'social life'
[_] Repetition of a single word or phrase to the point of nausea
[_] Sanctimoniously moral
[X] Sentimental
[_] Self-pity
[_] Thesaurophilia
[_] Use of internet shorthand or emoticons
[_] Vicarious wish fulfilment

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