She's a boiling wild ocean,
A furiously churning sea
An acrid violent waterwall
Now turning upon me
I'm caught kicking hard
Against the current of insane unrest
Collapsed beneath the cruel
Crushing mass of her towering crests
___________
Tossed whirling upon the mercy
Of her unmerciful whim
A vast unending trial,
Perpetually ravaged swim
Repeatedly bashing me,
Against her breakers I am dashed
With venomous vacuous brutality,
I am truly smashed
___________
She's armed with the outrageous pain
Heaped upon her times before
She whips me foaming,stripping off my flesh,
With mad and raging roar
Rolling and frothing
With salivatingly sadistic pride
Watching my infinite struggle
Against her rampaging tide
_____________
With titanic tsunamic surge,
I'm callously swept away
A curling turbid confusion
In a foul offensive fray
Cast urgently pleading
Before her turbulent tidal wave
Polluted with the sewage
That her lovers before had gave
______________
Tumultuous turning whirlpool,
Twisting turbine grinds me down
Found flailing and helplessly hoping,
Praying that I might drown
Savagely pulling me in,
And submerged with undertow clasp
I'm rasping and I'm gasping
Within her soul destroying grasp
________________
Ground,cut,pummeled and crushed
By the jagged debris of her past
This terrible torrential turmoil
I cannot outlast
Her tragic hurting from long ago,
Now i'm made to withstand
Tremblingly foresaken,
I'm washed tumbling far inland
____________________
I'm battered,beaten,broken and dumped,
Left crumpled in madness
Of long savage suffering,
Lost in suffocating sadness
Marooned with but her memory
Upon these harsh blazing sands
Flung far distant
From the desires of her once loving hands
A furiously churning sea
An acrid violent waterwall
Now turning upon me
I'm caught kicking hard
Against the current of insane unrest
Collapsed beneath the cruel
Crushing mass of her towering crests
___________
Tossed whirling upon the mercy
Of her unmerciful whim
A vast unending trial,
Perpetually ravaged swim
Repeatedly bashing me,
Against her breakers I am dashed
With venomous vacuous brutality,
I am truly smashed
___________
She's armed with the outrageous pain
Heaped upon her times before
She whips me foaming,stripping off my flesh,
With mad and raging roar
Rolling and frothing
With salivatingly sadistic pride
Watching my infinite struggle
Against her rampaging tide
_____________
With titanic tsunamic surge,
I'm callously swept away
A curling turbid confusion
In a foul offensive fray
Cast urgently pleading
Before her turbulent tidal wave
Polluted with the sewage
That her lovers before had gave
______________
Tumultuous turning whirlpool,
Twisting turbine grinds me down
Found flailing and helplessly hoping,
Praying that I might drown
Savagely pulling me in,
And submerged with undertow clasp
I'm rasping and I'm gasping
Within her soul destroying grasp
________________
Ground,cut,pummeled and crushed
By the jagged debris of her past
This terrible torrential turmoil
I cannot outlast
Her tragic hurting from long ago,
Now i'm made to withstand
Tremblingly foresaken,
I'm washed tumbling far inland
____________________
I'm battered,beaten,broken and dumped,
Left crumpled in madness
Of long savage suffering,
Lost in suffocating sadness
Marooned with but her memory
Upon these harsh blazing sands
Flung far distant
From the desires of her once loving hands
Author notes
These are just lines of 15 syllables each,and I broke them up wherever I felt like it so that they wouldn't look so long.
A contest entry
- Tell Me Your Troubles by KatherineAnne.
550 points, ended July 8, 59 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Do you think how I broke the lines up works?Or should I go with long straight lines.
Comments
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An interesting style. And it added to the piece quite nicely. Great job on this piece.
Thank you for you entry and goodluck in the contest.
-Kati -
Had my interest throughout
I was intrigued the whole time.
The lines 'broken' is fine, makes it stand out. At the same time, it might take away from the readers concentration on the actual poem versus paying attention to not skipping a part/line.
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WOW!
I THINK THIS POEM HAS ALOT TO SAY, A LOT OF IMAGES, AND A POET WHO HAS TONS OF POTENTIAL! i LOVE THE FEEL OF THIS POEM AND THE SLAM BAM ACTION. A TERRIFIC WRITE! -jEFF
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Line 16 seems so dull compared with all the imagery used in the rest of the poem.
Love this part: "Cast urgently pleading
before her turbulent tidal wave
polluted with the sewage
that her lovers before her had gave"
"had gave" is a tad awkward
The way you broke up the lines seems to work really well; its hard to imagine this poem any other way. I LOVE this poem! props to you



