The Poetry Bonanza
has been fun! I want more people MORE!
Three things I want to share:
1. On the continued topic of poetry, I have these three long ribbons in my office. When I hear or read something that really gets me, I write it down and pin it up. Some Kiss We Want is the top middle there. I couldn't decide which to pick to put up. :) My desk on the other side of ( Read more... )
Three things I want to share:
1. On the continued topic of poetry, I have these three long ribbons in my office. When I hear or read something that really gets me, I write it down and pin it up. Some Kiss We Want is the top middle there. I couldn't decide which to pick to put up. :) My desk on the other side of ( Read more... )
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Its quite inspiring.
Yay for CH...how many more chapters do you think you have?
And congrats to all the nominees!
As for lines...well, I've written a couple that have inspired me. Ummm...not going from Broken...because that entire story inspires me. So, I'll go from Ordinary People and go with the "love theme" you went with from CH. I really do love that part, btw. Fan-freaking-tastic.
Here's mine:
I love you ( ... )
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I love quanifying things that carry so much more meaning. Somehow, in the simplicity of that, the meaning comes through. From CH: This is what she looked like to him. Three tables and six rows of benches away.
Love doing that. That was wonderful! I don't think I have read that of yours. I will add it to my list. :)
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I LOVE that sentence from CH.
This is my other main number one...
Two years.
Ten months.
Fifteen days.
Twelve hours.
Forty-seven minutes.
That was the exact amount of time that I’ve fancied Draco Malfoy…
…exactly how long I’ve been occasionally sleeping with him…
…and exactly how long I’ve been planning my escape.
That's another one of those lines I about smacked myself for its brilliance...it sets up the rest of the story.
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THE POOL PLAYERS.
SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL.
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
Second, I wrote a story last year, and at one point, the two main characters are getting married, and each come with children from previous relationships. They decide to include their children in the ceremony. Here is what I wrote:
It was my turn to say my vows to the children. I was wearing three little rings on my pinky. I turned to face them, and then kneeling in front of them so they could see me clearly, I spoke, “Raphael, Lily and Riley, I promise to always love you, respect you and protect you. You are blessed with a loving and wonderful Mom, and that is a very special, so I promise to respect your love for her and her love for you. I promise to always be here for you, when you need me and when you don’t.” Taking the rings off my finger, one by one I placed then on ( ... )
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It's from 'I Will Be Waiting'
Severus brought her closer to him, putting his leg over hers, his face touching hers, whispering in her ear of his love for her. He didn’t know how much time had passed when she turned her face to his bringing her hand to his cheek she smiled before kissing him on his lips one last time. Then she looked into his eyes and said, “I love you, Severus.”
Closing her eyes and with a smile on her face, Hermione Snape breathed her last.
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Not after the never-ending nights in that freezing tent.
Not even after that Horcrux brought out every horrible part of him.
Not even after he abandoned them.
Abandoned her.
Because he had come back.
And saved Harry, so that he could save them all.
Because he'd tried to save her from the unbelievable pain of the curse at Malfoy Manor.
Because he'd cared enough to free house-elves during the final battle.
Because he stood next to her when rubble had flown all around them.
Because her touch had been enough to settle him when he only saw red at his brother's death.
Because in the midst of it all, he had kissed her back.
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I rememeber reading that! Yes it is so so so so good!!!!! Woooo I feel like I am having a literary orgasm! multiple at that!
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opening like the
Small fists of sleeping
Children.
And from your pieces, duuuuuuude. wow. YES to the scene of Harry waking up with Ron and Hermione. God that is just beautiful and fantastic and: A leg here, an arm there; one was big, freckled, and chiseled, the other smooth, tanned, and petite...what a gorgeous tangle of limbs. Beautiful!
And damn... I love the piece about Fred. I don't think I've read that. I love that idea, and the twins and that idea for the motivation behind their personalities. GAH! LOVE WANT NOW
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It's funny, poetry has never done a lot for me, though I was saying to Dyno earlier, that all these lovely pieces everyone's sharing is giving me some new perspective. However, song lyrics tend to stick with me that way - this is from Bruce Springsteen's "No Surrender":
Now I'm ready to grow young again
And hear your sister's voice, calling us home
Across the open yards,
Baby we could cut someplace of out own
With these drums and these guitarsThose lines evoke so many memories of my childhood - I can actually visualise my parents' neighborhood before everyone fenced in their yards - we would roam in packs through everyone's yards, and when one of us was called home, it was usually all of us. He has so many songs that do that for me, in so many different ways ( ... )
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