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Topic: Illustrate the meaning of "Don't Cut off Your Nose to Spite Your Face" (without using the actual phrase or litera (02/14/08)
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TITLE: Don't burn a bridge | Previous Challenge Entry
By Clarence (Sonny) White
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About letting pride get in the way
To quick to judge and sometimes hate
And Heaven forbid: retaliate
Sometimes we let emotions guide
And common sense they over-ride
Words are said out of hurt and spite
Then later impossible to make things right
We've hurt ourselves beyond repair
Now hard to tell a friend we care
We suffer from self inflicted wounds
To much said and spoken too soon
Overcome with shame we hang our head
Much too late, the words already said
Sorrow causing pain like a heart attack
Yet there’s never a way to take them back
So let’s be careful, what we say
Try not to let pride get in the way
In everything we say and do
Remember other folks have feelings too
Perhaps, leave these thoughts in our head
It’s better sometimes leaving words unsaid
Better not to burn a bridge my friend
We may need to pass this way again
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A few hiccups in the meter of this piece...and I'd suggest that you experiment with a different rhyme scheme: perhaps ABAB, which is less "predictable" for your readers. Something to think about...
I really like your last stanza.
The challenge to honing rhyming poetry is meter. While there are many different patterns of meter, one important thing within a given poem is consistency, not just of the number of syllables in the lines, but of the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. I've even been known to resort to a thesaurus when the right number of syllable word would not come to mind.
What a great message it holds.
This should be "Too quick to judge." hopefully it was just a typo.
I loved your thoughts and choice of words.
Great writing.