d ([info]randomcelestial) wrote in [info]heart_on,
2004-12-28 10:43:00
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List of Cliche Words

For anyone remotely serious about improving, here is a list of words you might want to consider very carefully before using and then sounding like a total scrub.

It's pretty much a list of words that set off red-alerts in a serious poet's head. Enjoy.



angels
abyss
authority
become
believe
birth
black
blade
bleed
blind
break / broken
burns
chance
change
commitment
confusion
consume
control
crimson
crush
cry
cut
dagger
dark
death
deep
descend
despression
desire
desperation
destroy
die
disappoint
disease
doom
down
dream
emotion
eternal
evil
existence
eyes
fade
fake
fall
fantasy
feeling
fleeting
forever
forgotten
fragile
freedom
freeze
fright
glass
God
gossamer
guilty
happiness
haunt
headstone
heart
hollowness
hope
hurt
illusion
importance
infinite
innocence
judge
kill
life
lord
lost
love
memories
mercy
mirror
nightmare
numb
pain
passion
poison
pierce
quest
rain
razor
reality
reflection
regret
revolution
sacred
scared
screams
secret
selfish
shadows
shard
shatter
shrivel
skin
slumber
society
solace
sorrow
soul
suffer
tear
time
torn
unknown
unspoken
veins
void
web
wilt
window
wings
wither
worthless
yesterday
your arms

Basically, if it's good enough for Linkin Park, it's a terrible word to use in a poem.


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[info]mojodragonfly

December 28 2004, 17:29:10 UTC 7 years ago

Couldn't Coyote Cult out this into some sort of Poetry Cliche Check?

You two could make hundreds, selling software to the online poets.

[info]mojodragonfly

December 28 2004, 17:30:06 UTC 7 years ago

you know, like SpellCheck, but for Cliches.

I need an overexplaining-checker : (

[info]randomcelestial

December 28 2004, 17:38:43 UTC 7 years ago

yeah, I gotcha the first time. :)

[info]planet_amy

December 28 2004, 18:29:58 UTC 7 years ago

awww...

but we like it when you overexplain

*pats your head.

[info]mojodragonfly

December 28 2004, 18:37:48 UTC 7 years ago

*bites off a thumb and three of your fingers, leaving only the middle, before you draw back your hand from patting my head

Look at the blood on this smiley face
: )

then with a little blood around my lips, let me *wink wink* you.

[info]planet_amy

December 28 2004, 18:39:13 UTC 7 years ago

ouch

why the violence? *pouts*

[info]mojodragonfly

7 years ago

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[info]randomcelestial

December 28 2004, 18:56:04 UTC 7 years ago

jeebus

[info]coyotecult

December 28 2004, 21:48:42 UTC 7 years ago

It's kinda cheapo, but...

Cliche Checker v 1.0

[info]mojodragonfly

December 28 2004, 21:52:59 UTC 7 years ago

Re: It's kinda cheapo, but...

you are my hero. If I had an organization, I would want you in it.

Wanna have some children?

[info]coyotecult

December 28 2004, 22:26:06 UTC 7 years ago

Re: It's kinda cheapo, but...

Being at the tender age of 21, the thought of trying to shove what equates to a bowling ball through my pelvic region still freaks me out to no end. When I'm older and stupider and the sheer insanity of going through a process most closely related to cancer no longer intimidates me, I will let you know.

[info]mojodragonfly

December 28 2004, 22:45:36 UTC 7 years ago

Re: It's kinda cheapo, but...

ok, but I don't wanna be all Abe Vigoda when I get my furious code writing kids.

[info]randomcelestial

December 28 2004, 22:07:26 UTC 7 years ago

Re: It's kinda cheapo, but...

Word.

[info]coyotecult

December 28 2004, 22:22:14 UTC 7 years ago

Re: It's kinda cheapo, but...

Whoa, put andalus's thingie in it and it goes wheeeeee.

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[info]randomcelestial

December 28 2004, 17:38:26 UTC 7 years ago

Yeah, just using the word isn't the problem, it's how you use it. That's true with any word, really. But these are just common ones that I see really fucking up poems. :)

[info]boiten_valise

December 28 2004, 18:48:45 UTC 7 years ago

You're missing oblivion and hatred. A lot of these words are really depressing. No, just because you're feeling a little lonely doesn't mean God is stamping unique and double plus good all over you and your poetry.

[info]randomcelestial

December 28 2004, 18:56:42 UTC 7 years ago

this makes little to no sense. congrats.

[info]boiten_valise

December 28 2004, 19:03:35 UTC 7 years ago

The last line wasn't directed at you, but you as in you who writes "cold knife slits my skin, but it does not matter because of the chains of anguish surrounding my pained heart." Make sense now?

I'd rather take that congrats later when you figure out what I'm saying. So, um, do me that favor, or else I just won't be able to sleep at night.

[info]randomcelestial

December 28 2004, 19:48:30 UTC 7 years ago

no, I understood the "you," but something about the sentence is driving me nuts. eh.

[info]boiten_valise

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[info]downyourhighway

December 28 2004, 19:10:30 UTC 7 years ago

Basically, if it's good enough for Linkin Park, it's a terrible word to use in a poem.

I love you.


[info]butathinsilence

December 28 2004, 21:48:28 UTC 7 years ago

you should post this on deviantart.com....


[info]coyotecult

December 28 2004, 21:52:42 UTC 7 years ago

Cliche List

Should I email the password, or delete the sucker?

[info]cacie

December 29 2004, 00:24:32 UTC 7 years ago

This is brilliant. BRILLIANT!

[info]postmaudlin

December 29 2004, 18:34:45 UTC 7 years ago

moon.

[info]eskimopie

December 30 2004, 19:22:12 UTC 7 years ago

I've got your clear beacon of light right here

http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=384246970
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