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(11-24-2014, 03:18 AM)vagabond Wrote:  virtual
 
I´m in a spider web that leads me anywhere
as I stare into a flickering monitor.
No use to touch the screen, none to inquire
about the other ends or dead-ends of the wire.
 
But how was I trapped in this tractor beam?
Incapable of disconnecting from a dream,
paralysed by longing or by desperation,
swallowing the toxins of this revelation.
 
The den of thieves shall be set free in cyberspace.
I long to pour my feelings out among the virtual waste,
left empty-hearted and condemned to stay
here in the real world another unreal day.

 

Throughout most of this you seem to be overwriting in an attempt at end rhyme.  This causes a couple problems.  First, the grammatical structures are twisted into awkward, sometimes unparsable phrasing.  Second, you really want to cut to the bones in poetry - try to say much with little, and instead you are padding it out exorbitantly.  And, finally, your rhyme is not supported properly with meter.  Non-metric rhyme causes an unpleasant dischord in the music of poetry.  I would suggest you try some of the practice examples for rhyming form before forcing rhyme into your poetry.
Phrases like "I'm in a spiderweb that leads me anywhere" don't actually make a lot of sense in English. Same with "no use to touch the screen none to inquire".
Thanks for posting.
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Messages In This Thread
virtual - by vagabond - 11-24-2014, 03:18 AM
RE: virtual - by milo - 11-24-2014, 03:31 AM
RE: virtual - by vagabond - 11-24-2014, 03:37 AM
RE: virtual - by Brownlie - 11-24-2014, 04:39 AM
RE: virtual - by milo - 11-24-2014, 04:43 AM
RE: virtual - by just mercedes - 11-24-2014, 04:50 AM
RE: virtual - by 71degrees - 11-24-2014, 08:31 AM
RE: virtual - by Mwaba don - 11-24-2014, 11:50 AM
RE: virtual - by Liz11 - 11-25-2014, 01:27 PM
RE: virtual - by vagabond - 11-25-2014, 11:46 PM
RE: virtual - by azure - 11-27-2014, 09:36 PM
RE: virtual - by Mark D. Windmill - 11-28-2014, 04:44 AM
RE: virtual - by paulcanuck - 11-28-2014, 10:03 AM
RE: virtual - by Lizzie - 10-21-2017, 04:17 PM
RE: virtual - by vagabond - 10-21-2017, 05:40 PM



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