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Maybe If and You Wish

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poetry, drama, young adult
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June 22, 9:40pm

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130

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These are two of my poems that I wrote at the ages of twelve and thirteen so please be kind. :)

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 MAYBE IF

Maybe if people weren't so fake.

Maybe if hearts weren't so easy to break.

Maybe if life wasn't so tough

Maybe if the roads weren't so rocky and rough

Maybe if the answers were easier to find,

Maybe if people would be more kind.

Maybe if you read this,

Think and sit,

Maybe then you'll realize that this is it.

 

YOU WISH

Plastic are the things you wish were real.

Numb are the things you wish you could feel.

Asleep are the things you wish were awake.

Lovely are the things you wish weren't fake.

Gone are the things you wish were here.

Wet are the things you wish weren't tears.

Secret are the things you wish were told,

Your heart is the thing you wish wasn't cold.

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Discussion

 You use a repetive wording in the beging of your work at the beging of your lines. Than you swich over and use another wording on the last part at the end of your line. I like this, its different, even though "Maybe if" gets used a lot it is for driving in your meaning.  Than you use "you wish" on the secound part but not at the beging and that gives the reader a little change of pace.

It easy to lose a reader in an easy rhyme, and those who use a simple beat in there works, lose the meaning in the repitiveness and beat. You poem, by breaking in half and changing the rhyme and not the beat, keeps the reader on tap. 

I like how you start off with the Maybe if people werent so fake...tough...easy to break...and so on and tie that in the bottom part.  Plastic that you wish was real and so forth, I really like that.

All in all I truly like this piece, the way you dont over do the repeating, and so forth. Think you for an instering read. Keep writing! 

 I'm going to start off with the "Maybe if". This is the one that touched me the most. Recently I've been in a situation which contained all of these elements but I never sat  down and said what if. I wish things did go the "what if" ways. I just wish I could've read this a few days ago then I maybe I wouldn't of gotten so upset. Enough about me. You have wn awesome talent and if this is you at age 12 then you've got to be professional by now.

You Wish: Very good and I may say that true poems written from the heart are much better than ones that have no meaning. Thanks for your time and keep writing.

I really liked these poems. You did not over do the rhyming like some do and the message was still clear in the end. A lot of times the message gets lost. Something else to consider is that you had wisdom beyond your years. You said  that you wrote these poems at 12 or 13. That is amazing! You wrote something that people at all ages can easily relate to. We all feel this way at one point or another. What i thought was great was the simplicity of the form you used. Many people think that you need to use large words and complex grammar techniques such as metaphore and simile and hyperbole in every line throughout their poem but sometimes the simplest poems are the best.

"You Wish" touched me the most. I liked the way all if the lines were done in the same format. It made it really easy to follow.

I liked the way you changed the format at the end of "Maybe If". It made the message all that more clear.

Good job and keep writing!

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