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Author:	manwithnoname
ASL Info:	18/M/Ontario
Elite Ratio:	5.84 - 314/278/117
Words:	96

Class/Type:	Poetry/Serious
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Winter is mine enemy!

Written in Gr.12 English Class, Poetry Unit.

January

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January
He enters like a lion
Roaring like a billion resolutions never kept
Sending a legion of blizzards to eat away the sun
People are walking, assaulted by the knives of snow that cut their faces
Downcast eyes
Crying tears that freeze upon their smooth cheeks
Cursing January and his gloomy, winter armies
Moving frozen legs quickly
To reach the warm inside sanctuary
Where they stand, still cursing him
Praying for summer once again
January just smiles like the devil
And steals the souls of many
The New Year is a new death toll

Submitted on 2007-09-21 18:46:41 Terms of Service / Copyright Rules
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2: I dunno...
3: meh!
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you're really that upset at the month of January huh?
i kind of dig the winter months myself. after a long hot summer it's nice to have the season as a reason to huddle inside and catch up on a book or two,drink hot chocolate ( with the little marshmallows,oh how i love them) not rake or mow or water or try to keep anything alive for the sake of beautifying beautiful things.
i thought March was the lion? and April has something to do with flowers or something? showers? showers is definitely in ther somewhere.
line four; i believe the word is actually knives not knifes.
how does January steal souls exactly?
also one last thing; is prayer the right word here?
i dont know,for whatever reason i think longing,wishing maybe. prayer if you are a farmer or someone who depends upon warm soil to pay the bills. not sure maybe it's just me.
any whay pretty good for the most part and you get a clear point across (extra points?)
plus with the whole global warming sitchee ayshon we wont have to worry about those pesky seasons anymore,warm warm warm all the time warm.
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| Posted on 2007-10-19 00:00:00 | by eno1 | [ Reply to This ]
January is one of my least favorite months. It's always in January where I acquire this habit to number, list and count all my of habits and collections. Sometimes, I count the number of words I write, and think to myself "This is the most I've written in the past 7 days and 3 hours, 43 minutes". It's a strange ideal, that, maybe, I'll be competent enough to make accurate estimations of my successes and failures in the New Year to come. Which does remind me- this all started when I first began to believe that whatever you happen to be doing at the stroke of Midnight on the New Year is a reflection of how your life will unfold within those 12 months.

January
He enters like a lion
Roaring like a billion resolutions never kept
Sending a legion of blizzards to eat away the sun
People are walking, assaulted by the knifes of snow that cut their faces
Downcast eyes
Crying tears that freeze upon their smooth cheeks

Punctuate, please. "Downcast eyes...smooth cheeks" sounds too morbid, compared to the stronger mentions (lion, legion, assault). Try to add some more emotion, something evoking:

January.
He enters like a lion, and roars;
A billion resolutions never kept.
He sends a legion of blizzards to eat away the sun.
People are walking, assaulted
by the knifes of snow that cut their faces.
Downcast eyes, in agony, shivering,
They cry tears that freeze upon smooth cheeks

Onward.

Cursing January and his gloomy, winter armies
Moving frozen legs quickly
To reach the warm inside sanctuary
Where they stand, still cursing him
Praying for summer once again

Punctuate, please. I think it would read much more pleasantly if you personified "January" in this stanza, as in:

"Curses, Januaury!
Your gloomy, winter armies move our
frozen legs to reach warm sanctuary.
We stand, we curse you,
and we pray for summer to come again."

January just smiles like the devil
And steals the souls of many
The New Year is a new death toll

Punctuate, please. "The New Year is a new death toll." should be a separate line. It is conclusive and a different observation, completely. Also, "new" is redundent, even if it's in regards to a different aspect.

January smiles like the devil,
stealing the souls of many.

The New Year, a death toll.

This is a very descriptive analysis of the weather. I always believed February to be the coldest month (seeing that we are both from the Canads). You also use very formal, military/soldier based images as comparisons...which I find tempting to pluck.
I enjoyed this. Winter is an amazing season. It is my (only) muse. I am a seasonal writer, sadly. Or a weather-based writer. Hahaha, fascinating work.
| Posted on 2007-10-11 00:00:00 | by JenFlynn | [ Reply to This ]

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