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tesa131313 2007-01-05 . chapter 1
Really good one!

Love the subject and how you conveyed it.

This piece has an air of wisdom when one reads it.
Midnight In Eden 2007-01-04 . chapter 1
If you're not using stanza breaks this reads more as a short prose piece than a poem. The way I see it broken up is as follows.

What gives the right for a man
to talk badly of another man,
to use his words to strike
instead of help, to scorn a man
that has showed him nothing but respect,
to take from the man of what
he offered to share?

If this is to be of the world
then may the new world
find a path that fits:
for it shall be a long and hard one.
If I were to share with you
the air I breath, the land I walk upon,
the sights I see and if you were to strike at me…
I would strike back and
may that strike be ten fold
so those who mock
shall learn their lessons
of defeat and failures.

I come to you not to threaten--
but to teach, not to burden--
but to help.
I have arrived so you can learn
the ability to acknowledge
the other human being.
I have said these words and
may they remain true
until I were to break these words
with a hypocrite’s hatred of the fellow man:
but on that day may I feel
the shame of those before me
and those yet to speak.

Even now with stanza breaks however, it still reads as quite prosaic. I'd recommend condensing a lot of the smaller words out such as "and", "but" etc. Also consider making it a little more abstract, not as direct. Prose is all about showing rather than telling. Here I think you do a lot of direct telling, why not show the reader what you mean?

It's an interesting idea definitely, but not quite poetry yet.

.:midnight:.
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