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Could you make suggestions for the improvement of this poem?

Mister Young

I got up off the ground

without making a sound

when I finally found the disaster

While unbending my knees

caught my hair in the breeze

in one hundred degrees melting plaster

Watching girls of the world

raising dresses unfurled

while the questions were hurled so much faster

I was writing a play

on a sweet summer day

to her own known dismay so I cast her

She took talent and poise

from her suitcase of toys

said the mirror enjoys her reflection

Keeping up with the styles

weeping under her smiles

leaping over the piles of rejection

We clacked day after night

and came close to a fight

hoping she would invite my direction

But she took all the fame

even blew out my flame

she was playing the game of deception

Update:

Thanks for the comments. I like to write tongue-in-cheek now and again. I didn't give proper credit to my inspiration. Mister Young is Neil Young and his song Mr. Soul. It was playing when I started writing this one.

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  • 7 years ago
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    This is the third time I have tried to answer your poem Andy, before losing all the text in cyberspace. I googled the lyrics of Neil Young's song. They weren't that easy to understand, but I took it to be about fame and what it does to the ego and soul.I noted the reference to plaster and disaster. So your mind wandered as you listened and I wonder whether you brought Neil Young's fan into your own art or whether the girl was someone else. For all her talent and poise you wrote about, she was even better at deception. An unhappy ending.

    I couldn't possibly make suggestions for improvement, I was kept far too busy trying to find a meaning inside your tongue in cheek poem. I'm not sure I got one, but sometimes when we are on a poetry path we can get lost.

    I always enjoy reading your work and trying to unravel it, a bit like dropping a stitch when knitting and trying to avoid a disaster

    Source(s): catfish lover
  • 7 years ago

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    Mister Young

    I got up off the ground

    without making a sound

    when I finally found the disaster

    While unbending my knees

    caught my hair in the breeze

    in one hundred degrees melting plaster

    Watching girls of the world

    raising dresses unfurled

    while the questions were hurled so much faster

    I was writing a play

    on a sweet summer day

    to her own known dismay; so I cast her

    She took talent and poise

    from her suitcase of toys

    said the mirror enjoys her reflection

    Keeping up with the styles

    weeping under her smiles

    leaping over the piles of rejection

    We clacked day after night

    and came close to a fight

    hoping she would invite me to her direction

    But she took all the fame

    even blew out my flame

    she was playing the game of deception

    This is a super amazing poem. I like it! Keep up the great work.

    Source(s): Wallah all lies poet
  • 7 years ago

    Some of the end lines are a bit confusing:

    to her own known dismay so I cast her

    and,

    hoping she would invite my direction

    The latter one I would say,

    hoping she would invite misdirection

    Only because I don't know what yours means.

    My jokey brain rewrote the first one as

    to her home grown dismay, my Jocasta

    But that is not a serious suggestion, just what my brain does when it reads gibberish. Gibberish in, gibberish out. Generally an amazing poem though, as yours usually are.

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