What Else Could I Do?

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bicyclingfish

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I told you all my stories.

I listened to some of yours.

I told you all my secrets.

I listened to one of yours.

I wrote you a lot of letters.

I read three of yours.

I offered my hand on a cold night.

I held your fingers within mine.

I dreampt of you when I fell asleep.

I hear you cry when you weep.

I want you close to me and there I'd keep

You, you, you...

What Else Could I Do?
 
i think what makes great poetry is the reader being able to relate.
what for one person might be just lines on a page, for someone else is their life.

i can relate to this, fish.

i hope the protagonist can figure out what to do.
you gotta be careful, poems arent always written for personal experience.
 
Yeah, when life reflects art. Hmm.

Its crazy, ya know, because there is no criterion, no rules, no particular form or style or manner or method that the poet is SUPPOSED to follow anymore. We can write and scribble and flow and release however it best expresses, and no one has any right to dismiss another's work, period. Damn poet righteousness!
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I write from what I know, and if the situation's not present in my life than it has been, could be, or will be. Ya know all those f*cked up moments where you're thinking the worst and imagining the death of the world? I write from there sometimes. And those other moments when you're sitting on top of the world, everything's perfect, yeah, those ones? That's somewhere I write from too.

Anyone else? Where do you come from when you write?
 
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