Silly little puppet tied to a rope
Living in a world of false hopes
Your beautiful face delights us all
As your carved wooden body gets up then falls
Unable to breathe or feel a heart beat
No emotions penetrate that polished doll so sweet
Steps controlled and movements planned
Somehow striving in this make believe land
Strings pulled and constantly used
This poor little puppet is continually abused
But dance it must for it has no control
Unless someone tells it what to do to play it has no role
So it sits collecting dust till it’s needed
Treated like trash it lays there defeated
No voice to speak and no emotions to feel
This cycle of its life with it has to deal
Silly little puppet tied to a string
Happiness and joy is all it brings
And yet to the side it’s always tossed
Till one day it shall be forever lost
In the depths of darkness all around
No more strings, body, and a face so profound
Silly little puppet polished to a shine
Molded, sawed, and carved till all was divine
Sits upon the mantle collecting dust
Staring out into the world with lust
But untouched it lay until it tipped over that day
And fell it did onto the ground below
As sturdy as it seemed it shattered in the blow
Silly little puppet tied to a rope
Living in a world of false hopes
So shattered, it now and forever will be
Beauty destroyed, body shattered but finally free
Author notes
Prompt:User name:Silly-Little-Puppet
A contest entry
- People Prompts by sheltered.
600 points, ended October 29, 2008, 11 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest - Rhymed prewrites only ... by ecrivain01.
750 points, ended November 14, 2008, 61 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
what do you think?
Comments
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Hello -- thank you for entering the contest -- the poem would be greatly enhanced with a tight metrical cadence. The freeform, ragged-end-line-rhyme hinders more than it helps. -- Best of luck with your future writing projects !
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So Sad
Makes me wanna hug.. good write for the nick
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nicely rhymed and original imagery
there were some lines where the timing
seemed to drag a little
but all in all a really good write
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