How Is This Next Poem?

Circus (9-17-09)

(Ring Master) Have a seat and observe Observe Grixis go insane. He has the nerve To set himself aflame.

(Grixis) I can hear the writing on the wall It speaks oh so loud. It yells down the hall Pleasing a bloodthirsty crowd.

Life can’t go on like this It’s so irrational. I’m living in a circus Without an arsenal.

They won’t Stop Inside I scream so loud! I want This bomb to pop With my tears upon the ground.

Hold on longer I can not And the crowd is cheering! Death is all they want And now, Yes, I’m dieing.

I try to forget the pain The pain of the past. It’s hard at times to ask If you can save my heart for last.

I wish away the pain To send it into slumber. It’s all just the same If I just take a number!

I’ve got one more chance To do right. To destroy this circus It’s tonight.

I will not die tonight But in the light of the sun. With the ashes of this circus Swimming in my lungs…

This is a very old and rough poem of mine, When I was still just finding out what kind of Poetic Form I wanted to start using. Obviously It breaks up towards the end but I figured I’d post it anyways.

Answer #1

pretty good, but hey man, why not publish your work? But be careful of posting your work online. People can steal YOUR work and get credit for it. And even make money in the process.

Answer #2

i guess its alright try i bit more of PZazzzz

Answer #3

I’m a bit anti-social in terms of person to person confrontations especially with people who publish my work. So I’ve stuck to the internet and Facebook mainly for the past 2 years…

Answer #4

I made this almost a year ago, I’ve really refined my style in my more current poems. :)

Answer #5

You could do that, it’s not like you’ve got to read it in front of someone. Send your work in for review, publication, then tada! If people like it, and buy it, you’ll be making money, by just sitting home all day on your duff :P

Answer #6

haha, Very true. I’ve have been looking around for some legitimate people who I can send my collection to but my earlier work and some of my recent have ‘bad’ words in them that makes publishers very unwilling to publish them.

Answer #7

Have you heard of Writers Market? Well there is a Poet’s Market as well that gives you listings of agents in your line of writing. I think you query them just like you would a novel but wouldn’t hurt to check it out.

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