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why i smile
bear

i smile because i'm alive
 1
i smile because you're here
 2
i smile because i'm fine
 3
 
 
i cry because it's sad
 4
when people lose
 5
a person they love.
 6
 
 
but i smile because i'm fine.
 7

30 Jan 06

Rated 7 (6.7) by 2 users.
Active (2): 7, 7
Inactive (1): 6

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it's in line 4

IM in line 7, if it's intentional, would you explain why it's there? I'd muchly like to know.
 — GalvanicGirl

i guess its kindof clever... you could work on it a lot and make it really clever though
 — topop

i kind of want to italisize the i'm, but i have no idea how so i used caps.

hmmm i guess i could make it more clever, but thats as clever as i am.
 — bear

i like this!  if you were to drop 8-10, i'd like it even more, but you're right- everyone may very well hate the repetitiveness, and that makes ME smile:)
 — chickie

oooooh. mehbeh try a less than sign and an i and greater than sign in front of the word, and the a less than sign and a forward slash and an i and a greater than sign right after it.

muahha. go ahead, try to decipher that.
 — GalvanicGirl

L4 it's
L7 I'M and if you want to use italics, wite this: [i] i'm [/i] only replace the [ with

get it?

i do hate the repetiveness, so i guess you win.

oh, i just read galvanicgirl's comment, and realised she already told you how to do italics, but maybe my version is more understandable. but probably not. heh.
 — inutile

oh, it didn't work. replace the [ with  

if it doesn't work that time, and you still need help, there's a really good thread on the forum, go look for it.
 — inutile

:)
thank you. much needed smile had the audacity to show when least expected.
 — unknown

replace the []'s with the less than [ and more than symbols
 — unknown

thanks for all the help! i am glad it made people smile! after all that was the point.
 — bear

yay for the html!

and yay for the poem!

Yay!
 — GalvanicGirl

yay 4 ducktape.
 — unknown

I hope you don't bite the tongue that's in your cheek, you cheeky poet!
 — Isabelle5

GalvanicGirl, hooray!

unknown, what's this about ducktape? is she back.

Isabelle, ill try really hard not to, but i do it all the time!
 — bear

No ! Its OK
 — larrylark

haha thanks larry!
 — bear

almost made me smile. nice idea that needs to be perfected. but I like your style, bear.
 — unknown

i guess it was okay - until the end
 — unknown

All poems with too many I's get the number that looks the most like an I---> a 1. Rewrite with less I's and I'd consider changing my rating. See me after class.
 — Henry

its fine u gave me a one. i like all the i's. otherwise i don't think the last stanza would work...
 — bear

I see your point bear...7/10. I'm fair guy.
 — Henry

thanks, i appreciate that.
 — bear

Any relation to Rod Mc Kuen, Bear?  I would just end it at L7.  I wouldn't assume, though, that everyone that reads this will hate the repetitiveness.  I, for one, don't.
I just don't like the last line in general.  It comes off as sounding clunky and out of place.   The repetitiveness didn't bother me at all.  Very Rod McKuen-ish though.  I like it.
 — starr

i don't hate the repetition, only because it seems to be your destined response. but i like it anyway. it reads like a well thought out joke, but joke is such a bad word to use, embarrassing, really, because the complexity in this is there. joke is such a sham-name.
 — listen

so much personality, too.
 — listen

(smiling)
 — unknown

im glad your smiling, kind unknown. that makes one of us.
 — bear

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