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Poetry
The Woman Now Without Bread
By rilLie
08 August 2006
this was a poetic interpretation of a story i made up (impromptu) during Filipino Oral Tests at school a few hours ago. Lui Kerplunk, one of my best friends, she made a comic during A.P. class while i made this poem. Coincidence? Enjoy, anyway!

Once there was a woman,

who always had bread.

she was simple; she was poor,

and she loved the color red.


her lover had to leave,

had to leave off to the Bahamas,

they said goodbye on a cliff,

what a deep, deep cliff it was.


"Oh dear woman with bread,"

said her sweet, dear lover.

"I have to go, I have to leave."

and they hugged one another.


The woman with bread cried and said:

"Why do you have to leave?

as the answers to her questions,

a kiss she did receive.


Suddenly a bird flew by,

it was larger than a chair,

it flew around, without a sound

and snatched the bread off her hair.


The woman cried, the woman screamed,

her bread was now long gone.

So the bird pushed her off the steep cliff,

my story now is done.

Reviews

Written by Gill21 (566 comments posted) 9th August 2006
A very inventive and humorous tale.  
You really didn't need 'she loved the colour red' as it in no way related to the poem. It felt a little like you just put it in because it rhymed. Try and revise this line? 
You have to be careful with rhyming verse that you don't say things unnecessarily. Blank verse is often easier to do (if you can get the rhythm right) and allows you more freedom.  
The second stanza was a bit disjointed i felt. 
However, in this comic tale, the rhyme worked well. It had a childlike quality to it. Perhaps put this in the children’s section once revised? 
 
Happy writing 

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