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Inspiration
The same smile on your face has grown wider and wider and wider
Not the tides that had suffocated your strength
Not the ache that blew you apart from within
has caused your smile to shrink.
You have grown with that wide mouth stretching
Like a six inch subway burger
From the end of one ear,
All the way to another. Daddy, You are courage
Personified, and Inspiration,
Exemplified.
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This article has 3 comments.
Okay. Back to business. You asked on the forums to get 'frank feedback'. First, I have to ask why you named your poem 'Inspiration'. I know you mentioned it in the last sentence, but I couldn't see it fitting in anywhere else. I kind of thought the title should incorporate smiling, but that's just my opinion.
Second, I was kind of confused by: '...Not the tides that had suffocated your strength, Not the ache that blew you apart from within, has caused your smile to shrink'. Did he die? That was the only part I got stuck on though.
Hope this helps!
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