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Thread: SSR Week Two: Slayer (0-1) vs Kuhn (0-1) (FEED)

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    SSR Week Two: Slayer (0-1) vs Kuhn (0-1) (FEED)

    Y'all should know the rules by now.
    50 Line Limit
    Verses due Friday, 11:59PM PT
    Votes due Sunday, 11:59PM PT
    3-0 = KO, anything else is first to five
    As it's a non challenge week, there'll be a topics list. Pick at least one topic from the list and use it in your piece or suffer the consequences
    Best of luck to both!

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    Re: SSR Week Two: Slayer (0-1) vs Kuhn (0-1)

    Yeah

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    Re: SSR Week Two: Slayer (0-1) vs Kuhn (0-1)

    1916
    Enclosed by eight foot walls constructed of wood, earth and sand
    A mother shouldn’t birth a front line solider but here we stand
    On the Eve of battle, consuming ale to delay the suffering
    Passing the wine skin to my childhood friend, my brother and kin
    Josh was his name, full of laughter he always berates
    Ever since we were playful kids on the east London estates
    He now wears the wedding ring gifted from my sister
    Drunkenly we sing songs about how we’ve missed her
    Conscripted to war on foreign shores far from home
    Josh felt no allure but wouldn’t let me go alone
    Now trained killers i say “I love you more than you could know”
    Awaiting the arrival of dawn… when the whistle would blow

    As the sun threatened to turn night to day
    I cast a gaze upon the field on which we’ll fight today
    Lands that were likely so green and fertile once before
    Reduced to nothing, nature’s casualty in man’s war
    The smell of gunpowder was about to champion this summer’s day
    And hell to descend whilst the devil comes to play
    The screech of the whistle began our advance
    I saw tears in josh’s eye as I stole a last glance
    He pushed me to the floor, the saviour god sent to me
    And I watched his skin pierced by the bullet meant for me
    The rest of the assault felt a life time - but I had known
    It’s was only four months later and I was destined for home
    …alone

    It should’ve been a mere happy return to the English country side
    But as I saw my sister a tear escaped my eye
    A surprise I saw in her arm, a miniature josh rather
    A pregnancy that was unknown to me and the father
    The hero of the Somme is what we called josh at home
    To my best mate’s child; that he would never have known
    War is cruel, why did it have to be that way?
    Why did josh have to sacrifice his life for my own?
    I wish it was me who died that day
    ….and he who returned home

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    Re: SSR Week Two: Slayer (0-1) vs Kuhn (0-1) (FEED)

    This was pretty dope. Mechanically, it was simple but clean. The plot here was deep. Great character developement, creative take on the 1912 topic. I definitely felt this.

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    Re: SSR Week Two: Slayer (0-1) vs Kuhn (0-1) (FEED)

    This was a great written with good progression. On point front to back honestly and I didn't fall off once reading through it. The character's reflectiveness and the "reveal" at the end was well written. I enjoyed the wording here. It felt cleaner to read this than your drop last week, and I like this style for you here.. the rhyming was on point and didn't throw off the wording or story one bit. The narrator in the story was easy to relate to and follow, which just made it feel more real as you're reading.. good work.

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    Re: SSR Week Two: Slayer (0-1) vs Kuhn (0-1) (FEED)

    The story in itself was a fantastic read. Simplistic with shards of greatness sprinkled through out the verse. You kept it sharp and tight from start to finish. Kept it clean and though sometimes the rhymes seems a bit daft to the cadence the imagery and content laid still spoke of a wonderful story and piece to read. The diction and story seemed to be known already and displayed with great detail and storytelling narrative. Good job
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