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Empty drip (katejayne)
By katejayne
17 February 2008
I need a work on here for a start, so I decided upon a poem.

Poetry isn't particularly an area where i exceed peers, yet I enjoy it.

It doesn't make much sense, like most the poetry I tend to write.

It's an expression of something I can't describe.



The empty drip
Silently echoed between the dun walls
Its sound consuming all the air available.

To follow, the sound of pattering feet
eagerly forming on the dead wooden floor.

An opened eye
Mesmerised by the slivers of silver light
trickling from the heavens
and the sound of unseen angels

Heart-broken thud
as she realises...
nothing but a faulty pipe.


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Written by Phil (6645 comments posted) 17th February 2008
Welcome to GW, Kate. I too am drawn to poetry but find it hard to write. Odd you should post something you say doesn't make much sense. 
 
I do like some of the constructions and feel of parts of this, but the final line of your intro says it all for me. 
 
Phil

Written by fellpony (1580 comments posted) 17th February 2008
I know, it's a practice piece, but "Bathos" is a concept worth looking up, then you'd know whether you meant it or not.
Bathos?
Written by katejayne (17 comments posted) 18th February 2008
So bathos means un-intended humour. 
 
If humour is gained from this poem, then let it be. 
People observe things in different eyes.

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