I'm currently taking a creative writing course in college and I recently had to do an imatation poem on Etheridge Knight.
I was suppose to copy his tone and his style (the mechanics of it). Tell me what you think...........
If you would like to read Knights original poem, PM me, For content reasons I can't post it here.
Another Poem for me (bitter reminder) by Lintra (influenced by Etheridge Knight)
(NOTE: There is a difference between the writer of the poem and the narrator)
sweet words
sweet words that don't mean a damn thing
sweet words
now that I've seen truth
behind your sugared down phrases
sweet words____that_____kill me
kill me sweetly with your terms
so that I /please your self inflated ego
a limp possibility of your false loving
be true lover/ or leave me
if another claims you
let me walk away unharmed
before my heart calls out to yours
and I'm captured by emptiness
leave me_________leave me be
so I can__________be a stronger person
without___________being burned by
________________ a man who can't
take good care_____of a women
who loves with unyeilding passion despite pain
I don't need your bull/ s**t games messing with my mind
Sweet words that don't mean a damn thing
they will cling to my mind
and shatter my wall
feeling unsatisfied by love
you break the trust given you
causing me to choke on ashen bitterness
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