Rubber's Songwriting Journal - Music Banter Music Banter

Go Back   Music Banter > Artists Corner > Song Writing, Lyrics and Poetry
Register Blogging Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read
Welcome to Music Banter Forum! Make sure to register - it's free and very quick! You have to register before you can post and participate in our discussions with over 70,000 other registered members. After you create your free account, you will be able to customize many options, you will have the full access to over 1,100,000 posts.

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 03-02-2009, 01:22 PM   #21 (permalink)
Souls of Sound Sailors
 
Schizotypic's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Mojave
Posts: 759
Default

The second line doesn't make much sense. Grammar is an important aspect in regaurds to the meaning of your poem, comma's should be used very sparingly. Pauses are better done with line breaks. Instead of saying "they said" you could write it from their perspective, to better set a scene. The diction could be better too. Try using words that metaphorically speaking could only mean exactly what you want to say and that have a connotation that reflects the overall feeling or mood. I'd suggest some revision.
Schizotypic is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-02-2009, 01:25 PM   #22 (permalink)
marquee moon
 
Roygbiv's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Posts: 759
Default

Neat, but I thought that the thread was about contraceptives (judging from your username as well).
Roygbiv is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-03-2009, 08:22 AM   #23 (permalink)
sidewalks
 
Rubber's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Novi
Posts: 401
Default

Quote:
Neat, but I thought that the thread was about contraceptives (judging from your username as well).
haha that's pretty funny =)
Quote:
The second line doesn't make much sense. Grammar is an important aspect in regaurds to the meaning of your poem, comma's should be used very sparingly. Pauses are better done with line breaks. Instead of saying "they said" you could write it from their perspective, to better set a scene. The diction could be better too. Try using words that metaphorically speaking could only mean exactly what you want to say and that have a connotation that reflects the overall feeling or mood. I'd suggest some revision.
I think you're right about the line breaks, I hesitated to go on a line break spree. I think I will try to revise this too.
__________________
and we stayed, sixteen.
Rubber is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-06-2009, 05:29 PM   #24 (permalink)
Music Addict
 
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Rochester, NY
Posts: 160
Default

i like how the poem makes you feel the how you are alienated from the rest of the world, as if what everyone else does does not apply to your own life. interesting perspective on how to see the world
darkcornerinthecloset is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-19-2009, 01:59 PM   #25 (permalink)
sidewalks
 
Rubber's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Novi
Posts: 401
Default Laying down

It's happening
the weight of it percolates through my skull
with all the elegance of a cheese grater
the sting lingers
bleaching my bones
which by now are being held together with red ribbons
rattling and swaying in the wind
it happens all the time

I'm on my back after the fact
and the sky weaves through itself
playing dancer
to a tune I can't seem to hear
over the cacophony
of breathing walls
blinking eyes
and final heart beats
(the exclamation point at the end of each passing)
all simultaneous
all endless
the art is lost on me
__________________
and we stayed, sixteen.
Rubber is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-19-2009, 10:36 PM   #26 (permalink)
Partying on the inside
 
Freebase Dali's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 5,584
Default

This is good.
__________________
Freebase Dali is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-20-2009, 01:00 PM   #27 (permalink)
sidewalks
 
Rubber's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Novi
Posts: 401
Default

thank you
__________________
and we stayed, sixteen.
Rubber is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-22-2009, 08:13 AM   #28 (permalink)
sidewalks
 
Rubber's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Novi
Posts: 401
Default Hot Fuzz

Hot fuzz grows from the pores
Of my wood paneled walls.
Sustained by the same stale air
That now sits stagnant in my lungs.
It has been over saturated
With repeated phrases.
Miscarriages of soliloquies
And inward promises.

As evidenced by my blood flushed face,
To breath again is but a pipe dream.
Instead I sit wishing on stars unseen,
Waiting for the color to drain from my pupils.
__________________
and we stayed, sixteen.

Last edited by Rubber; 03-22-2009 at 11:48 AM.
Rubber is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-22-2009, 11:24 AM   #29 (permalink)
Mate, Spawn & Die
 
Janszoon's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2007
Location: The Rapping Community
Posts: 24,593
Default

This was by far one of the best things I've ever read in here. I'd consider changing the title though because the first thing it makes me think of is the movie of the same name.
Janszoon is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-22-2009, 11:49 AM   #30 (permalink)
sidewalks
 
Rubber's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Novi
Posts: 401
Default

thanks that means a lot
I completely forgot about that movie until after I named it haha.
__________________
and we stayed, sixteen.
Rubber is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Similar Threads



© 2003-2024 Advameg, Inc.