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I Write

By M

11 June 2005

This was written on a Friday afternoon in my college library (I don't have any lessons of a Friday afternoon) I was borde and began thinking of the many different reasons why a person might enjoy to write. I wanted to create a differrent personna within each stanza of the poem, giving the different attitudes that a person might have for the reason that they write.

I write because I'm happy,

I write because I'm sad,

I write my thoughts and feelings

No matter good or bad.

I write about my anger,

I write about my pain,

I write abolut my aims in life,

That I have yet to gain.

I write because I have to,

It really is a chore.

I write my essays one-by-one

It really is a boar.

Writing is within me

It burns deep in my sole.

It's a gift from God in heaven

And it gives my life a goal.

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Written by Ostara (61 comments posted) 13th June 2005

Hi M, I really like what you have done here. There are indeed many reasons people put pen to paper and you have captured lots of them. Your title is appropriate to the poem and your overall structure and rythmn is good. I do have a few points to make, which hopefully will enable you to improve it?

Firstly (although this isn't really important yet) watch your spelling. I hate pointing this out when it is simple type-o's but I think you have just spelled the words wrong (boar/bore and sole/soul).

I love the repeating element of this poem - it shows the repetitive nature of writing as a hobby. Perhaps it would stand out more as a style if you crafted the third stanza to this format as well? Maybe if the second line read 'my writing is a chore' it would tie in a little better? Having two lots of 'it really is' feels a little like you ran out of words. Kind of in the same vein, the last stanza has the two middle lines starting with 'It'. Now there is nothing wrong with this, but you don't always need an 'it'! Simple 'A gift from God in heaven' would read just as nicely. then you could lose the first 'and' of the last line making it a statement readable on it's own merit.

A good start, but keep going with it. Why not try another poem in the same vein about 'what' we actually write? (I write a little ditty, a poem from my heart...) :grin

brave concept
Written by kevinrobson73 (391 comments posted) 13th June 2005

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