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mxrider155
October 29th, 2010, 10:43 PM
The fog rolled in, over the hills, into the valleys,
The soft white glow of the moon overhead,
Signs pass by, left, right, left,
Lines pass even faster, right below my feet,
The "shake, rattle, shake" of the country road,
"Eleven eleven" says the lazy clock,
"Not even late" says my wondering brain,
Look, another sign,
The moon, still there,
Now darting in and out between the trees
in it's own little game of hide and seek,
The car still racing,
Almost there now,
Any minute, I am sure,
It has to be soon.

Fact
October 30th, 2010, 05:58 AM
I quite like this apart from the lack of punctuation in places (call me weird, I love punctuation).
What exactly were you thinking about when you wrote it - where/what is the person going to/getting away from?

mxrider155
October 30th, 2010, 07:40 AM
I quite like this apart from the lack of punctuation in places (call me weird, I love punctuation).
What exactly were you thinking about when you road it - where/what is the person going to/getting away from?

Thanks, and could you help me with the punctuation? I'm not very good with formatting poems. And i was just on my way home from play rehearsal, and it was foggy out and we were the only ones on the road. I wrote it in the mind set that someone was going home for the first time in a long time.

Fact
October 30th, 2010, 07:47 AM
That's awesome :]
It depends what style of poetry you're writing in.
You can have commas at the end of each line, which makes the reader pause. Or you could have 'free verse' where it doesn't have commas at the end and you just keep reading, often this style has no rhyme.

When I read this, my brain automatically put commas at the end of each line :]

mxrider155
October 30th, 2010, 08:04 AM
Thanks again :)

Fact
October 31st, 2010, 05:03 PM
You're welcome ^^ :D