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Question: A Poem I Wrote-Based off "The Book Thief"!?
I had to do a project last year on the book called "The Book Thief"!. I chose to write a collection of poems told from different characters' point of view!. If you are not familiar with the book, it takes place in Nazis Germany, and deals with the life of a girl named Liesel!. The narrator is death!. I went through my poems and thought that these two were really good!.

#1: told by death, Dancing With Death

A deadly embrace
A kiss of pain
With only the colors
To distract me

A blood soaked sun
A scream of sadness
And it's my job
To clean up the mess

How can Death itself
Be so haunted by it
How can the soul collector
Hate the job so!?

One man
One nation
One bloodbath
To turn my stomach over

Hitler
Germany
Holocaust
The next few years are going to be busy!.


#2: told by Liesel after her town is destroyed, and everyone but her is dead, Tears

Waste deep in a puddle of tears
Pain from the past few years
But never, not ever
Did I do it alone
And in a mountain of rubble
I am quite alone

Waste deep in a pile of ash
In a body-parts-mish-mash
Kiss him now, where no one can see
Hug Mana and Papa for one last time
And in a mountain of rubble
I am quite alone

With a book burning in the flame
With the metal beasts to blame
My life burnt to a crisp
A tear rolls down my cheek
and in a mountain of rubble
I am totally, and utterly alone

And only time can tell
Where I shall end up
In this dark, lonely world!.


Keep in mind i am only 15 and wrote this at 14!. honest critique please!. thanks!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
First thing I should say that the book was super great!. I love that book very much!.!. Though its very thick!. I read that book when I was 12, i guess!. I like your poem very much!.!.!. The like the 1st one more!. Thats what I can say!. Thanks!. Rate my poem too!. I wrote when I was 13!.
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Nice!. Love the second one!. The first one is good too but you could try to re-word the second and third stanza in that one!. Keep writing!. You're good at it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com