Comments: 82
KichiRain [2010-08-23 17:40:55 +0000 UTC]
I always leave comments before I fave something.
But I can't really say anything to this.
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rafaluc [2009-03-13 03:34:52 +0000 UTC]
sad =/
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SomethingFerocious [2009-03-11 04:37:12 +0000 UTC]
If you can take any comfort in it, the relationship at least gave birth to some beautiful words. Thanks for having the courage to share them.
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JerryShepherd [2009-03-11 04:19:34 +0000 UTC]
i enjoyed it. Even though i thought the poem would be about her dying when the parachute didn't open. Shows what i know about matters of the heart and even though you deny it love poetry.
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Circlejourney [2009-03-11 04:01:58 +0000 UTC]
Amazing. Completely amazing.
"I said that it would sound like a dream exploding
it would sound like all the poems in history
being read simultaneously
it would echo across the earth
making poets of every language weep
like a thousand hearts breaking in unison"
Why I loved this so much, I don't know--but it was simply indescribable. I wish I could write like you do.
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pirateoforange [2009-03-11 03:02:05 +0000 UTC]
Beatifully written, in everyway! I must say, this may be the best poerty I've seen on dA. (in my opinion, of course) I almost cried. It really touched me. Nice work!!
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Lauraliepala [2009-03-11 03:02:04 +0000 UTC]
i am so sorry. i know i can't do much for you, over the internet, but please take my faraway cry that you are not alone.
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Symbi0sis [2009-03-11 02:40:09 +0000 UTC]
This was beautiful. The imagery and acid taste of bitterness. It reminds me of how I felt when I was going through a rough patch after a friend and I called it quits. And sometimes I still feel like that.
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katypi [2009-03-11 02:39:41 +0000 UTC]
this is why i love spoken word poetry more than anything else,
more than shakespeare and eliot and cummings and frost,
because it's so damn raw.
gorgeous poem.
i'd love to hear you read it.
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Alannavich [2009-03-11 02:29:44 +0000 UTC]
I have no words to explain just how perfectly this is said. I almost didn't even need to read your author's comments to know what this was really about. The emotion is very powerful.
I wonder, did you read this one to her?
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hakeberhut [2009-03-10 23:37:49 +0000 UTC]
Oh my goodness, this is beautiful. You deserve every pixel of that DD. The emotion in this is so pure, so bitter and sweet.
Kudos.
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Dya-mond-ay [2009-03-10 23:05:46 +0000 UTC]
Your style is fantastic =]
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All-Blue [2009-03-10 22:56:35 +0000 UTC]
Bittersweet in the most loving of ways.
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foxthepoet In reply to kindfullove12 [2009-03-16 09:43:23 +0000 UTC]
Oddly enough, yes. She came up from Phoenix last weekend to help me celebrate at my 30th birthday party in Sedona.
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DecembersColdestRain [2009-03-10 21:50:00 +0000 UTC]
I wish I could favorite this more than once
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Naomii-KuroiNekoKo [2009-03-10 21:31:34 +0000 UTC]
...If my heart could cry, it would have.
This is so beautifully written.
"I said that it would sound like a dream exploding"
I'd like to hear what that sounds like someday.
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ATrueNorseman [2009-03-10 21:16:11 +0000 UTC]
dude.....very well done. VERY well done...the voice is yours! and it still is very imaginative! Plus its simple diction to top off the difficulty!
very well done.
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lacalina [2009-03-10 18:04:56 +0000 UTC]
i love this poem. congrats on the much-deserved DD!
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PropertyoftheUchiha [2009-03-10 17:20:41 +0000 UTC]
i happen to like it very much.
the way you've phrased everything just comes together very well. <3
good job. and congrats on the DD
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lambs2ndseal [2009-03-10 17:03:23 +0000 UTC]
I can feel the emotion but I do not think this is DD worthy unfortunately.
The ascetic of the poem switches back and forth from frilly, allusive descriptions to hard, modern adjectives and interjection; too many shifts in voice tend to make the piece hard to read.
Keep the repetition though, it does carry the poem through the end, though I'm sure you could have actually ended it with that quasi-repeated verse "to her / this isn't a love poem," rather than the vague and melodramatic final line.
"This piece is supposed to be read aloud! It's spoken word!" Well, yes, I do realize this, and in places where you emphasize consonance, it sounds great. However, a general lack of sweet vowel sounds are strangely absent, and there does not seem to be enough rhythm in the verse to carry it as spoken word.
Sorry :/
Really though, it just needs some editing.
Also, I'm rather prejudiced against love poems. Oft they're far too silly for me.
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foxthepoet In reply to lambs2ndseal [2009-03-16 09:42:20 +0000 UTC]
Truthfully, the poem doesn't read that well on paper compared to on stage. I'm a slam poet in Arizona and the poem scores fairly well in competition with the right dashes of inflection at the right points. The "heartfelt" parts convey the type of person I was at the time while her responses are the crux of the poem.
It's also designed as an anti-love poem and scores well when I place it against more traditional love poems by younger poets in a slam. It's not one of stronger poems because it's not that formally structured compared to some of my other pieces, it's merely the 3-minutes summation of a conversation about skydiving. The details of the conversation are more important in this piece than the poetic themselves, and as such, I typically don't throw this poem in a slam when I'm trying to beat a 29.5 with a 29.6, but when I'm trying to beat a 28.0 with a 28.5.
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Sandy33311 In reply to lambs2ndseal [2009-03-11 02:28:26 +0000 UTC]
What on earth would compel you to write this? The Deviant didn't ask for the DD and therefore didn't ask if it was worthy or unworthy.
I thought there was an unspoken rule here: If someone is unhappy that a work received a DD, they complain to the Director, not to the artist. Thank goodness you're the only one who feels as you do.
I think it is one of the most spectacularly beautiful things I've ever read and I feel so lucky that, because it became a DD, I found it.
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lambs2ndseal In reply to Sandy33311 [2009-03-11 15:24:40 +0000 UTC]
I'll avoid doing that in the future now, thanks
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Sandy33311 In reply to lambs2ndseal [2009-03-11 22:45:03 +0000 UTC]
Wow, that's nice. I'm glad I wrote to you! You're really a nice person.
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vesperlynd [2009-03-10 16:45:48 +0000 UTC]
"instead, I would rather impress myself
emboss myself into the earth
next to her
so that the soil remembers me following her
always"
lovely!
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FlatChicken491 [2009-03-10 15:55:06 +0000 UTC]
This is really really good. I was completely invested in it the whole way.
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MonkeysUndles [2009-03-10 15:51:57 +0000 UTC]
For how much you love her, I can't see why she moved away.....
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aliens-exist [2009-03-10 14:41:15 +0000 UTC]
well written, beautiful to read.
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NozeDive [2009-03-10 14:34:06 +0000 UTC]
My heart broke when I read this. I'm not an emo guy, so that's not easy for me to admit.
My friend, do what you gotta do, but before (if) you ever talk to her again, take the plunge with out her, or something equally as daring, like aerobatics, or bungee jumping, or base jumping. You need to prove to yourself that you don't need her to be adventurous.
BTW, I will "taste the sky" myself this summer, and I don't know if I want my girlfriend to come with me or not. I would love for her to experience the rush, the joy, and the sensation of true flight, but I'm honestly not brave enough to put her in that situation. I'm not afraid of dying, but I'm afraid of living without her... Maybe her and I will make a pact of some sort... If her chute doesn't open, neither will mine.
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clashero [2009-03-10 13:39:19 +0000 UTC]
May I ask, what was the reason for this breakup? Was it directly linked to her change of heart?
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derivablezero [2009-03-10 13:03:21 +0000 UTC]
oh christopher fox. how amazing are you?
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Samelia [2009-03-10 12:55:42 +0000 UTC]
This is pretty much the best thing I've read in a long time. You have made my day, and have inspired me. Thank you. I realted too much to this poem, thank you.
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darknessupon [2009-03-10 11:42:09 +0000 UTC]
Sad, beautiful, and amazing..... ......
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