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    Desires, edited.

    Went over my poem: Desires, fixed up a few things, here it is!



    Desires

    Golden locks flow
    as the breeze blows.
    Her eyes
    blue with beauty
    full of hope and dreams
    fixed on the distance
    past me.
    There’s freedom in her eyes
    and life in the air.
    Deep desires for her to be mine,
    are only desires,
    never reality.

    My desires for the beauty herself,
    disappear with traveling laughter.
    Pointed fingers, sickening whispers.
    Hopes, dreams, and desires,
    all destroyed.
    All I ask is, why?
    "Where's your will to be weird?" - Jim Morrison

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    I like it and it would improve greatly by the further use of words related to desire, otherwise it loses its powerfulness.

    Main Entry: desire
    Part of Speech: noun
    Definition: want, longing
    Synonyms: admiration, ambition, appetite, ardor, aspiration, attraction, avidity, concupiscence, covetousness, craving, craze, cupidity, devotion, doting, eagerness, fancy, fascination, fervor, fondness, frenzy, greed, hankering*, hunger, inclination, infatuation, itch, lasciviousness, lechery, libido, liking, love, lust, mania, motive, need, passion, predilection, proclivity, propensity, rapaciousness, rapture, ravenousness, relish, salacity, solicitude, thirst, urge, voracity, will, wish, yearning
    Antonyms: aversion, disgust, dislike, distaste, hate, hatred, repulsion
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    thanks for the tips, I appreciate it!
    "Where's your will to be weird?" - Jim Morrison

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    An improvement over the previous posting. But I'm still hung up on "golden" and "blue." They are so utterly predictable that they lose any power to convince us of her beauty. What other words might you use to describe her hair, her eyes? There are some great online thesauruses, see what you can come up with.

    Overall the poem is tighter, and that's a good thing. Glad you got rid of the "evil world." Keep on keepin' on

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