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You said, “Love is patient and love is kind,”
as though it were indisputable fact,
to be accepted and not debated;
magnificent knowledge to be enshrined,
another cell in your database mind.

You write love in edicts, stamped and signed;
barren words, well-meaning but cracked,
your sentences carefully confined,
never any feelings to retract,
your sentiments kindly translated.

You tell me how the dusk was created,
how the congealing sunset was designed,
but the night droops over unabated;
idle planets refuse to be aligned
and the stars will not be neatly stacked.

You long for logic in the abstract,
for consistency, for the exact;
so let our love be annotated,
let feelings be evaluated–
but please, dear, leave the sky undefined.
©2008-2009 *chugglepuff
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Author's Comments

Eeeurgh. I didn't like writing it and I don't like the result. I may dump it in scraps later.

I got into the final round of a multi-round poetry contest primarily because other people kept quitting. And for this round we had 2 and a half weeks to write 2 poems. I'm still working on the other one. But this poem had to be:

- 20 lines.
- Four stanzas of five lines.
- First stanza must have rhyme scheme of abcaa.
- Second stanza's rhyme scheme is ababc.
- Third stanza's rhyming scheme is cacab.
- Fourth stanza's rhyme scheme is bbcca.
- Syllable count for first and third stanza is 10.
- Syllable count of second and fourth stanza is 9.
- Prompt 'mixing skies, in the ink of your lips'

And I picked easy things to rhyme with because I'm lazy, and I couldn't think of anything decent to write and I say 'love' far more often than I like and it is generally horrible. But at least it's finished and I tried.

Incidentally, this is nothing to do with my other Vivisection poem.

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Being a budding scientist myself, I often find that some of the beauty is taken out of nature when you can't stop thinking about how everything works and what it's made of. But in a way, it gives it a new beauty that most people will never get to see.

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:iconcwnerd12:
hmmm... the rhyming for the most part is good but it tends to get kind of harsh after a while.

Otherwise, this is pretty good.

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Thanks for the comment. :)
Yeah, there's really no hope for this poem.

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Well, you might not like it much but I think it's a great poem. The slightly stale rhyming doesn't really detract from it, at least not to me, but I didn't really notice it at first so that could be why. I especially love that last stanza, it's a great summary of the rest of the poem and it flows beautifully.

"but please, dear, leave the sky undefined." - great finisher! :)

Great work as always, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
:iconcwnerd12:
it's not bad, it just needs some work.

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:iconija8879:
I like it. :-)

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:iconmaskmaker24:
I would hate to write poetry under such a constricted form. I like the words and the imagery you've used for it, but the rhyme scheme, in particular the rhyming of the last verse of each stanza with the first of the next, doesn't seem to flow right for me, it seems more than a little forced. I'd say just take the ideas and images and rewrite it however you want to, no rules :D

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:iconchugglepuff:
:O_o: Well thank you! Youre comment really cheered me up. :)
Indeed, the rhyming is just stupid. If you can't actually tell it rhymes there's really no point putting all that effort into making it rhyme. But that's what I get for entering a wacky contest. :shrug:

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:iconchugglepuff:
It needs all sorts of things and it's damn well not getting them from me :no:

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Yeah, I really don't like where the judges went with the rhyme scheme. You need a more regular pattern for rhyme to actually add anything to the poem, although maybe a better poet could have made this horrible scheme work... ah well.
I might do that, actually, some of the thoughts in this I quite liked. Thanks!

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