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What's left of our pride by ~Nayleya:iconNayleya:



Blood is washed away by rain,
the paved streets, empty once again.
Rocks lined in rows on fields,
marring the soft green hills,
all for our pride, our never-ending hate.

Skeleton walls, the remnant of what was,
all will be gone,
the lost monuments of us.
They are all that is left,
once our pride's had its fill.
Skeletons clinging to soft green hills,
and rocks in neat lines,
scattered on the fields.
©2007-2009 ~Nayleya
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This is somethin I came up with this weekend, and for a rough it turned out rather well. Now I need you guy's to say what you think so that I can finish it. I'm sure that there are many gramatical error's and misspelling that I didn't notice, and I'm not quite sure I put my dot's in the right places. So help me out!

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:iconaiylah:
First off, nice piece, really makes the reader think. I particularly like the first verse. Good imagery too, with the skeleton walls and so on.
I've given it a more thorough lookover and picked out the mistakes I've noticed. :)
1)"Rocks lined in rows" - no apostrophe in rocks, and rows without the e
2)is the 'out' in the 5th line supposed to be 'our'?
3)if you have a full stop at the end of the 1st line of the second verse, then the next line should be with a capital since you did the same in the rest of the poem. Or, replace the full stop with a comma
4)"once our pride's had its fill" << its without the apostrophe, because "it's" means 'it is'
5)last of all, I don't know the word 'clining', is this a typo or am I about to extend my vocabulary? ^^

Hope that helped, in the language part anyway, I'm not really good in the poetic part. ^^
:iconnayleya:
You are ofcource right concerning everything. And I'm not about to expand your vocabulary tody, it was supposed to br clinging.
It helped a great deal. When I make a poem i always write a rough first, then I let a few people read it. Then I change it and let a few people read it.... and on it goes. The other poem "Stories" took me months to finish this way, the last changes made here. So you're basically my boar I bounce ideas of, and I'm very thankfull that you'll help me!

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Nayleya
:iconobscurarts:
The pitures you draw a great, your words include a good imagination. I couldn't find any grammar mistakes except in the 5th verse of the secon stanza (I hope it is spelled right): "its" has to be without the apostrophe.

The poem itsself is very melancholic, it makes to think, but it spreads also a bit of peace by the describtion of a wonderful landscape. The first verse makes you expect some more drastic words, it is a great contrats to the calm words of the rest. Maybe one can describe it as follows: The first line is a kind of scream, while the others are a silent mourning.
It's an interesting contrast.

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Try to unlearn everything you've learned,
Try to listen to your heart.
No, we can't understand the universe
By just using our minds...

Epica - Consign To Oblivion
:iconobscurarts:
Okay, correction of mine: The contrats between the natural describtion and the way you use it to describe human behaviour is more striking!

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Try to unlearn everything you've learned,
Try to listen to your heart.
No, we can't understand the universe
By just using our minds...

Epica - Consign To Oblivion
:iconaiylah:
Glad I could help. :) I thought the word might be clinging, but I wanted to ask and make sure first. ^^
:iconnayleya:
Thank you so much! And yes, Aila saw that one aswell, but I forgot to change it along with the others :silly me:
I was feeling very melanchloc at the moment, thinking of all we are doing wrong, and how easy it should be to do them right....... I like your description of it, silent mourning...... it fits

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Nayleya
:iconmahoutragicqueen:
Vivid imagery.

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Thanks!

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Nayleya

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