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I've Got a Paper to Write

February 5, 2010
By Dazed PLATINUM, Teaneck, New Jersey
Dazed PLATINUM, Teaneck, New Jersey
20 articles 7 photos 107 comments

Clock says 10:01
I’ve got a paper to write
Seconds melt away
Clouds of lost time fog the room
The hands do not stop spinning.


The author's comments:
This is a tanka poem I wrote for creative writing class (The rythm goes 5, 7, 5, 7, 7)

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Dazed PLATINUM said...
on Aug. 30 2010 at 6:35 pm
Dazed PLATINUM, Teaneck, New Jersey
20 articles 7 photos 107 comments
tan youre an idiot i know its you

on Aug. 30 2010 at 2:43 pm
rainbowwriter SILVER, Teaneck, New Jersey
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I don't quite understand what this poem is trying to say and what you are trying to express through it but I love how you kept a steady beet to it through it all.