Best Editing Poems

My words were rewritten until they became yours
As grammar and syntax perfected your thoughts
Pages lined with highlighters polished me to extinction 

I wanted to resist all of those good intentions
Yet I knew you wanted your best words for me
You weren't listening so you couldn't hear...

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Another day starts, 
Another day of my life's editing I have 
to begin:

New things to write, 
Other things to correct and 
Some old things to erase!

Yesterday,  
The same things I did
I thought that I had finished with 
editing 

But 

New events proved me wrong...

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My words rewritten
Until they become yours
Grammar syntax
Pages lined with highlighters
Polished to extinction 

I will resist
Intentions that are well ment
You want the best for me
Still you do not understand what I ask
I hear you yet I have my own vision
My way is not your way
Still I...

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To enhance our book’s creation,
we sought your permission
for your poem’s transformation
to a condensed composition.

Not entirely acquiescent
to our last minute request;
you gave your consent
with tongue-in-cheek protest.

There were other Poets
whose heart-prints were cropped.
It’s painful, we know it,
to have feelings lopped.

Your reply touched our hearts
and our funny-bones too;
We...

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Editing is the slice of life of poets who need commas and periods in works that go inane absurd like Cummings and poets who believe editing and not editing are of the same branch of a treeless tree drifting in the wind

Direness
Tiredness
Willingness
Words words words that...

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some nights I pause
and actually believe
it would be easy

to rewind the film
to rewrite my day
maybe even my life

while some might toss
the old one aside
and try a new script

I'd prefer to
take my scissors
and make edits

and mostly what I'd do
is stretch the time
I spent with you



AP: Honorable...

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Every day we edit
What we say and how we act.
If we don’t, then we regret it;
No denying, that’s a fact.

There are people who don’t get it;
They forget to speak with tact.
It can hurt us if we let it
And don’t pause, but just react.

As to editing,...

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Gene editing offers revolutionary possibilities in medicine, agriculture, and beyond. 

In healthcare, it could eradicate genetic diseases, enhance immunity against infections, and personalize treatments. 
Agricultural benefits include improving crop resilience, yield, and nutritional value, potentially alleviating hunger and malnutrition. 

Additionally, gene editing holds promise for...

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writing is daydreaming on paper or sometimes straight into a computer.
notes crossed out, smacked around, slashed, re-visited, starred, circled,
checked, underlined, slashed out again, retrieved.

after print has happened, it all begins anew.  I count the syllables,
make six hundred tally marks on the page, slash out,...

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Poe was always revising his prose between publications. Here are the longest extended versions of sentences he shortened for their final publication in his lifetime:

"We loved each other with a love that was more than love, more love than fit in an empty grotes bag,...

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Bad scripts need work, develop plot   

With strong clean dialogue  

That is hot  

 

Memorized lines acting poetic  

Trying to be the  

Heroic  

 

Character playing a role  

Moving in the show  

For the gold ...

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Jack Segal (who wrote the lyrics for the song “Scarlet Ribbons”), whose songwriting workshop I attended way back in the 80's, used to say, “sometimes we have to murder our darlings”. What he meant by this was, sometimes, as writers, we have to cut out...

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A word was lost
in a sentence vast.
The eye that read it
moved too fast.
It shed a tear 
for it's daddy dear.
Writer, writer,
why'd you put me here?
...

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