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Post by Jay Gandhi (engineering poet!) on Mar 22, 2009 11:15:14 GMT -5
Today your boyfriend has told you a NO. Rivers of salty water will continue to flow.
Questions like WHY ME will slowly drain you. You’ll listen to Akon’s Lonely as life will pain you.
Then a stage shall come when you whine or move on. Watch Roadies, Dance-India-Dance or quietly moan.
One day while seeing JOEY you will laugh out aloud. Then you will go for a Bond movie with the crowd.
A day will come when you will forgive and forget. You will smile a bit at your not-so-tragic fate.
After sometime you will meet someone nice. You will be tempted to once again roll the dice.
Today you may be gripped by the helpless unrest But Jay G believes, whatever happens happens for the…
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Post by Marion Poirier on May 2, 2009 13:51:05 GMT -5
Jay, I'll take a stab at this. I think you have too much rhyme in this one - if you don't rhyme like Frost of Millay, then a little rhyme is more prudent if you like to use rhyme. Some of your lines are cliche - at best - not fresh, so I'd delete them and use less words. You don't have to spell everything out for most readers will get it with a more subtle approach. M My suggestions:
Today your boyfriend has told you a NO.
Rivers of salty water will continue to flow. (cliche) Questions like WHY ME will slowly drain you.
You’ll listen to Akon’s Lonely as life will pain you.
Then a stage shall come when you whine or move on.
Watch Roadies, Dance-India-Dance or quietly moan. One day while seeing JOEY you will laugh out aloud.
Then you will go for a Bond movie with the crowd.
A day will come when you will forgive and forget. You will smile a bit at your not-so-tragic fate
After sometime you will meet someone nice.
You will be tempted to once again roll the dice. Today you may be gripped by the helpless unrest But Jay G believes, whatever happens happens for the…
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