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Fraudulence: quickwrite

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We tongue-in-cheek it
Every time we feel a thing
They fail to mean it
Every time that chorus rings
We must concede it
Diction is a dying art
They can't redeem it
It's "lost upon an empty heart"

The art of the poet
Is dead as we know it
It lies and battered and weak on the ground
But lest we devise
To hide all our lies
The world will not know what we've found

Moonlight and roses
And serpents and gold
Weigh only as much
As the soul where they're sold
And heartbreak can melt
The most fickle of skin
So long as the sonnet
Is sung from within

"I was told one fine morning,
As I walked through the snow
That true love would find me
Wherever I go
So I'll sit in the corner
And just wait along
Hoping one day
I will finish this song"

The loved and the lover
The sister, the mother
The fairy-tale king and the queen
All have stories to tell
But it's all just as well
That their fables be more seldom seen
*not to be mistaken with "flatulence" (whole 'nother subject entirely)*

Just a random thing I started writing after browsing a few of the written works in the newer deviations section. Nothing too specific, but the general theme is this: it bugs me when people write poetry without thinking. Don't get me wrong - I support putting emotion into poetry, but some of the things that I've seen on deviantART are an abuse of the English language. Not to say my own poetry is that great, but I got to say I've seen a helluva lot worse.
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Reft-Tackarii's avatar
*Nods*
A good poem,
I enjoied it.

Thanks, and Cheers to you.

Reft~