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sad little actress
misspanda

the princess with no prince
 1
a bike missing a wheel
 2
 
 
a cake sans sugar
 3
a hand that can't feel
 4
 
 
the colorless crayon
 5
a glassless frame
 6
 
 
a sad little actress
 7
without any fame
 8
 
 
had some potential
 9
but it seems to be lost
 10
 
 
incomplete and broken
 11
she's exhausted
 12

23 Apr 05

Rated 7 (7.3) by 1 users.
Active (1): 7
Inactive (2): 5, 10

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and posted for WHAT reason?
 — unknown

to annoy people such as  yourself.

no, actually, there is a point, being left up to the reader?  youll get it eventually
 — misspanda

its like ten thousand spoons when all u need is a knife



yawn


the verbal terrorists
 — unknown

here's the thing about using repetition: you have to be very, very careful with it. sometimes it can keep a poem floating and othertimes it just acts like an anchor dragging the poem to the bottom of the sea.

drop some of the repeats: keep the poem floating. perfect it.
 — youthculture

hmmm pretty good
 — misspanda

sneaky you changed the title but it still sucks ass
 — unknown

same thing, my computer's messed up, i was not trying to comment on my own poem!

:-)
 — misspanda

hmm i beg to differ
 — unknown

on the it "sucks ass" part.

i believe you on the other one. i think...
 — unknown

wow some ppl just give unknowns a bad name

i like it, but its slightly cliched.. maybe change the last stanza, but i don't have any other ideas....

... a 7
 — unknown

It rhymnes all the way until  the last line and then doesnt.  ????  Messes it up.
 — MFine

I like
 — Meadow

a random treat. Strong mood piece. The detractors have simply never been tired enough to fill the feel. I love this poem. ( and I love your pearls and shoes). A chocolate to share?

Grace
 — unknown

Myself I like this. It reminds me of a friend of mine. I feel that line 2 doesn't fit somehow though ?
 — marmite

Your usage of the word little is in this case unpoetic.  Chin up.
 — unknown

i didn't like it til line 7, and then line 12 didn't go with the rest of it, neither in meter nor rhyme. so i quote: "had some potential, but it seems to be lost".  

just work with it a little. instead of the first couple lines just listing images and then dropping them, extend a certain image or metaphor to make the list a mechanism of building, rather than just throwaway lines.
 — SteelAngel

Oh, you got right down to the last word and lost it!  exhausted and lost almost rhyme!  I have an actress friend and I was thinking of her the whole time, even though she isn't broken at all!  You might want to get rid of so much space.
 — Isabelle5

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