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The Futures Embrace, Former Knowledge
The Futures Embrace, Former Knowledge
What the future embraces No one knows for sure What the past retains Creates knowledge everyone claims Population ever augmenting Contemporary reports of almost 300 million Increasing over forty thousand a year I speculate over-population is near Childhood steadily becomes drawn out Companionship achieved later Married with children at thirteen was customary Twenty-five is contemporary Marriage was once sacred Divorce uncommon One in every three currently stuck with this blow The devastating rate not likely to slow Education becomes more complicated College was not required Now admittance becomes emulous and rough In the future will this higher education be enough? Our history has always been colored; light and dark All races under authoritative powers, some merciless and intimidating All men are created equal now covers all We will embrace the knowledge; it will not be our downfall The skies will be dirty The water will be polluted We will run out of gas Without improvement, this may be our fate, alas. Telegraphs, telephones, and light bulbs; a blast from the past Internet, cell phones, and Ipods; the current array Hovercraft cars, teleporters, and human cloning; the future embrace Will we be able to keep up with the quickening pace? Politics, economy, ourselves to blame Catastrophe and happiness The poor, the rich, the starving and well fed The only entity that never alters is charge isolated. The end will come When will the time permit; this is the conundrum The apocalypse will arrive, some assume All I know is that Earth will meet her doom I'll take comments or criticism. Tell me what you think. |
02-5-2006, 09:02 PM | #2 |
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RE: The Futures Embrace, Former Knowledge
poor vocabulary choices in several places.
subject matter not compelling. cliche?
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02-5-2006, 09:03 PM | #3 |
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RE: The Futures Embrace, Former Knowledge
Fojar, I'm still waiting for you to produce some literary work instead of exhaling fecal matter from your mouth everytime you post.
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Re: RE: The Futures Embrace, Former Knowledge
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So shut up.
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02-5-2006, 09:11 PM | #5 | |
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02-5-2006, 09:16 PM | #6 |
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RE: Re: RE: The Futures Embrace, Former Knowledge
Great now It's a flame board.
Anyways...how is it not compelling? It's an assignment. I had to write about my predictions for the future and where is the poor vocab? |
02-5-2006, 09:24 PM | #7 |
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yeah sorry about that, chromer follows me around.
it's just not very original in theme. about the vocab... you use too much, and in a few places you use the wrong word for the job. poetry is about brevity and simplicity... that's what seperates it from prose. the mistake a lot of beginners (no offense, i'm not the Golden God of poetry or anything) make is being too wordy... but in my mind that's not the biggest problem of this poem. the biggest problem is the subject matter, shit is played son.
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02-5-2006, 10:20 PM | #8 |
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I'm going to have to go with FoJar. Rhyiming doesn't make something poetry. It still reads like prose. There's no particular scheme throughout the poem, making no sense of continuity between passages.
Also, subject matter here has been beaten to death. Gloom and doom about the future is a lot of been there, done that.
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And if you didn't catch where I said IT IS AN ASSIGNMENT; I HAD TO PREDICT THE FUTURE. You would OBVIOUSLY understand that I couldn't pick the subject.
Oh yeah Casey, and you're the one to talk about gloom and doom being beaten to death? |
02-5-2006, 10:40 PM | #10 |
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ZING!
what i'm saying is that you didnt have to make your prediction of the future the way it was. throw in a gnubarb, or the pixie king midor. forget electronics, pixies are where it's at, man. the pixilogical advances in stardust within the next 20 years will leave you floored. i guarantee it. writing is not about following set guidelines... it's about captivating your reader, and presenting them with something interesting and entertaining. i mean, guidelines are there for a reason, and you cant forget about them, but you have to remember that to succeed as a writer you must be able to keep the attention of your reader.
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*blinks* pixies...
I'm sorry I don't interest YOU throughout the poem...BUT PIXIES?! This is for AP US History...HISTORY....meaning technology more important things. Doubt they write about pixies in history. |
02-5-2006, 10:47 PM | #12 |
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those scheming little bastards are behind everything....
little known fact: hitler was a pixie
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Okay? But what does that have to do with predictions of the future?
How could I possibly connect, hitler, pixies, and the future? |
02-5-2006, 10:54 PM | #14 |
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hitler is bound to rise again.
he's got pixie blood. they always rise again.
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No, anyways, what is your definition of prose?
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02-5-2006, 11:20 PM | #16 |
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prose
n 1: ordinary writing as distinguished from verse that's dictionary.com's definition of prose, but it sounds good to me.
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It seems like the poem is half-lyrical half-prose. It might have been better to just stick with one. I'll give you an example of what I mean:
Population ever augmenting Contemporary reports of almost 300 million Increasing over forty thousand a year I speculate over-population is near I realize it's a history assignment(I'm in AP History also, and I had to write some cowboy lament speech), but that's what I think. |
02-6-2006, 01:41 PM | #18 |
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it's not prose at all.
there are lines and stanzas. it is poetry.
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