To Death [and commentary on elements of poetry: suspense]

To Death

There are 72-deaths, and God mentioned, "Choose one," and so he did, "To Death," was its name: its eyes have been sleepy, droopy. He then wondered what the other 71-deaths have been like?

Lots of had been amongst the dark hills, stone-forests under...! Waters complete of flames, undrinkable!

Stagnant, he gradually glided down its gap, to its warm finish, from its glaciers of cold sweat, from flesh, and located death to be a pal (for a though anyways); no dread, just calm, sweet dancing in the dark--here all the longing desires became beautifully-mad, with pounding.

As time passed, people today trampled the dark path. Then he discovered a prayer--one most absolutely everyone heard, but only a handful of mentioned (it echoed all through the halls and tunnels of death, it sounded a thing like this:

"Use us once again, if only but for an hour...!"

Here in this death, one of 72, man is intact, like a pacing panther. This is the new life, and the most effective of the most effective, of death.

#1318 four/17/06

Components of Poetry: there are Lots of Components in poetry, I've written on a handful of prior to, I typically do not make it a habit to do so, I'd rather swim in with the piranhas, and let the skeletons do the narrating on what is and is not poetry. But here is how I see a couple of items, take it with a altering view please, absolutely nothing is written in stone here:

Free of charge Verse without having fixed meter or rhyme but making use of formal Components of pattern verse (e.g. assonance, alliteration); it is a well-known way to create poetry, absolutely everyone who has published modern poetry appears to have employed it in one way or yet another.

Suspense in poetry can be developed by what is known as lines enjambed; that is, a clause or sentence can run over into the following line (I have utilised it A lot of of occasions). Therefore a type of mystery is forced, or expressed, emphasized: as utilised here in the very first sentence of my poem, "To Death".

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