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March 20, 12:04am

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147

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March 20, 12:07am

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A poetic representation of American society and culture.

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Desolate hills roll in and out of my sight
in the midst of everything cluttering my mind.  
Its not easy seeing the way I do,
but it’s mine,
that’s the truth.  

Like vultures riding on waves of air and hunches,
they look for their next meal like women for husbands.  
It’s just one big game that will always remain the same,
an eye for an eye,
    and no one willing to change.  
We’re set in our ways,
hoping for better days,
but we don’t have a map to find our way.  

Instead, wandering in the dark,
we find something to grasp, and continue to walk.  
Blind to the world, and all outside,
I want to run from this world of lies.  
But where do I hide?
Is there a place like this that I’ll ever find?
I’ll try...



I tried.

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Well, I suppose I'd suggest cheering up.

 Great work! This is a very powerful piece. You have some great imagery throughout. I particularly liked the first line:

Desolate hills roll in and out of my sight

and lines one and two of the last stanza:

wandering in the dark,
we find something to grasp, and continue to walk

Simply fabulous writing!

I do have a couple suggestions, particularly for stanza two. 

Like vultures riding on waves of air and hunches,
they look for their next meal like women for husbands. 

I love both of these similes, but they are used a little strangely. "Like woman for husbands" is being used as a simile to describe the vultures, which are also being used as a simile (I'm not quite sure for what). You'll definitely need to break these up, or maybe take one out and save if for another poem. My second concern is in regard to your use of the phrase "an eye for an eye", This idea fits well into the poem, but I would suggest coming up with your own unique phrase to express it. "An eye for an eye" is just such a well known cliche that I think it detracts from the poem. 

Keep up the great work!

I like this poem's form, but I'm afraid I couldn't connect to it on a human level. I can see the narrator struggling with a world of illusion. Unfortunately, I can't see how that relates to anyone else or could relate to anyone else.

I would love a lot more figurative language. Come up with some original metaphors to use in this to draw us in.

But where do I hide?
Is there a place like this that I’ll ever find?
I’ll try...

Also, I'm not a big fan of ellipses or question marks in a poem. Poems are bits of thought processes, wrapped up in images and concepts that need to break off somewhere in our neurons. I think that asking a question (even a rhetorical one) is ironically not something that would make the reader think.

 Sorry, Vega the Cat Lover, but I disagree. I think that poems are meant to express human thoughts and emotions, even the sad and depressing ones. I think that this poem wasn't as strong as it could have been. One thing I'd like to touch on that nobody else has yet is that without the description, I wouldn't have really known that you were targeting American culture and society. I do know that you were talking about a way of life, but nothing really stuck out to ascertain that it was the American way of life. I think if you wanted to really emphasize the role of Americanism in this poem, I would maybe mention stars and stripes or something, some symbol of America, possibly in a slightly sarcastic way so as to insinuate any disdain or lack of trust in the way things happen in this way of life. Hope that was helpful!

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