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| | Poems at the Poetry Free-for-all - Impotent seeds |
 | | Your narrator needs to be consistent, either staying in the one place or being seen to move from place A to place B for a purpose that adds to your poem. |
 | | Trouble is, everybody's had some, it's a negative thing, and it almost never yields a reasonable poem. |
 | | If you want to convey the experience of, say, confusion, you need a concrete situation that contains it, and show us the problems in action - a situation between younger person and authority, or between peers, whatever, where the emotional impact you want is in the story, the situation, and not the words. |
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