Topic Closed Identity Crisis 2: IC2 Round One: Battler 3 vs Battler 30 - 3 WINS

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    Posted: 30 March 2017 at 2:56pm
Identity Crisis: Round 1

- 25-40 Lines 
- Best of 5
- Battlers will be anonymous- Votes will be hidden
- Wednesday April 5th, Midnight GMT time
- Reserves if needed, Friday April 7th, Midnight GMT time

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Edited by The Law - 30 March 2017 at 9:01pm
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Battler 3

12am


Time crumbled around her. 

Air horn booming through eternity’s mouth

Burning the house that Cindy built

with pink and lavender clouds

Her haven, a safe and sacred ground of sweetest sixteen

Prince Charming strolling about, Upon a steed of esteem 

Critters concede to whimsical needs 

But change was around. 

clock winding down

As midnight stroke reality’s arrogance 

From “fair” to just merely a….

semblance of skin and flesh

Bottled up retrospect, the reflections’ unclear

Pour nostalgia in a glass slipper, hope the taste is still there

She waited in tears. She waded in tears.

She miss it...

Magic fountain dissolved into a sink full of dishes 

Though she insist magic exists, what she’s missing is effort

Past participle perspective; Stuck in a tensed state;

Rear view disposition. 

Accident in the making

Windshields scattered the pavements….


15 to midnight..


She cruise ..

the Boulevard of broken dreams

Collecting shards...to cut herself

With glimpse of those obscene..

hopes. It seems her purpose? To know. To feel again.

Making sure those moments were “real” again.

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Battler 30

I remember December, damn those airport gates,

I was headed for Denver, and you were swearing to wait. 

Spared no lines a pretender, you construed a flawless display, 

Was barely gone for the winter, like a tissue you just tossed me away.

Heart surrendered to blender, befalled appalled and betrayed,

fealt bereftly decenterd, yet was still enthralled in your game.

Left a mess in duress, there's no curtailing the pain, 

depressed from stress and regret, bewailed and slowly going insane.

My dress is torn at the seams, I'm streaming tears from my cheeks,

I've gored my chest I can't breath, I'm piercing ears with my shrieks!

While my head's shifting gears, I've got death stalking my thoughts,

As I grip the handle with fear, of a fully stocked 40 odd glock.

I'm inept and in shock....

but still I reckon that this weapon is cocked!

A tick tock, any second now my breathing will stop,

a brisk walk, up i krept the steps to the clock.

A quick pause...

I'll admit I wept a bit as I watched, 

the slosh of white wash as it sweapt up over the rocks.

Altogether distraught, a lost cause,

like a synod that's been set at odds with God,

However do i measure to dissever my thoughts? 

I've been forever endeavored a severed weatheted facade!

All the stress and pressure together begins to press and then pester,

to whether I've got to pull this trigger or not!

As i watch the plot getting thicker, I've been given quite a bit to consider,

Do I sit untill I wrought and then wither? Or grab the glock and cock it back and then litter?

Spot the rugs and walls with my brains, Got my guts all sprawled out to hang,

while the blood slowly starts to drop and fall from my veins.

Ive been mauled by disdain, equipped with chains and theron hauled off to hell, 

the river Styx's been stalled at the gate, set adrift the lake as Charon calls for Haedes to help!

Then a strangled breath escaped with a yelp, 

From head to ankles I'm aching as I'm shaken awake with a yell!

In my dream I fealt as if I were forsaken a spell,

no amount of pain would make me take my life from myself!

Dealt the fright of a night, I'm alright but, i've been scared kinda well,

And this could to start the story that I'm preparing to tell.

But before I start to say all of my goodbyes and farewells, 

does anybody care to dare and try to dispel...? 

Do you think she only dreamed that she died,

While she's truly alive somewhere still seen breathing and well? 

Or do you think that really she died 

and that she's been dead for some time,

just unaware that she's been dreaming in hell?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06 April 2017 at 2:29am

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Battler 3

Mmmmm The shortness of lines was refreshing, but some opportunities seemed missed or lack lustre.

The first half flowed quite nicely and had a nice pep to it

"Bottled up retrospect, the reflections’ unclear
Pour nostalgia in a glass slipper, hope the taste is still there"

Great line. This was one of your strong points for creativity.

Overall a nice quick read, I felt more could of been done with it and elaboration could of helped a little

Battler 30

I can respect the effort to add Multis but the lines in themselves didn't work too well for me. It slowed the reading down and forced a very mechanical vibe from the start

You have the idea of multi rhymes down. But you need to work on your inner rhyme schemes. I felt like I was counting to 4 the whole time with no progression.
And quite honestly I got to the end and didn't really understand the story because I had to re read so many lines to try and figure out a flow or rhyme scheme.
I apologize if I'm coming off as rude, I really wanted this to work, or pick up mid way but it just didn't for me


MVGT Battler 3

More is not always better and battler 3 showed with simplicity that overall quality is better sometimes than quantity
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The first thing that hit me with both pieces was what the fuck is going on. I feel though this will be a running theme in my votes as i tippy toe in to the world of topical voting. 

First verse very unorthodox rhyming but it worked in my head (most of the time). Even though it looked like it shouldn't with my eyes at times. Overall for the length the unorthodox style worked nicely, it gave it some character. I would of liked more of a narrative though. You had the room to paint one. I enjoyed it but you could of gone the xtra mile. It did feel a bit bare bones. There where some nice lines though. The vocab was creative though felt a little bit alice in wonderland/psychedelic type vibe



Second verse - I liked how you started, i was intrigued what was coming. For the most part the technical side was decent. You could of took it up a notch on that side. You had some good descriptive bits. It did feel like it stagnated a little with the whole killing herself (was the twist it was just a women being dramatic?  that's not a twist). I Don't get me wrong there were good lines but it was 60% of the verse without going anywhere. The end was anti climatic if i'm being honest. After reading that big segment i kinda wanted a pay off. It wasn't bad the writing was above average in some places 

This was pretty close really. Closer than it should've been. Battler 30 had narrative, and direction decent enough set up with rhymes and the technical side but it was losing my attention by the last third. Battler 3 didn't really bring the full package of what i look for and def should of been longer. Not to be a cunt be almost lazily short dude. I did however enjoy it more as a whole but did i enjoy it as much as the same amount of lines from battler 30? 

I can only go of what i like or at least appreciate. In the End i gotta give it to battler 3 but i'm no expert lads. 


Vote battler 3
 

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Battler 3

Heeeeeey!! The 3 Musketeers!! The 3 amigos!! Two's company, 3's a crowd!! Battler no.3!!

Gotta say although at first I was a bit ehhhh at the direction you took I have to admit it was extremely sophisticated & when you consider what you were given, which is a very conceptual heavy image, you actually managed to match your content & approach to the feeling/vibe of the image. Which is either extremely high calibre writing or extremely lucky that you got an image that suited you!! Perhaps we shall see in future rounds! I actually think you did just about as well as you could've done on this image really...thought you used some really strong metaphors and powerful imagery. Although I didn't really find myself loving the verse, I think that's more of a function of the image than of your technical ability...as I thought you did an excellent job with a tough image.

Battler 30

Heeeey!!! The big 3-0! Life begins at 30! 10 times your opponent!! Battler no.30!!

Not going to go too hard on you as I eluded to in the feedback to no.3 I felt this was a very tough image to write for. For me this was an ok verse...fundamentals were there, rhythm and flow, nothing to really call out and complain about but I felt that you didn't really draw me in as a reader and engage me. I kind of see what you were trying to do when you got to the end but I felt like there was a lot of padding in the narrative. Which is understandable as you didn't really have much to go from & it was a tough image, but at the same time I felt you verged on rambling at times (for instance, repeated references to the glock...I really don't see how you got that type of thing from the image. It felt like a pretty lame rhyme for clock at the first time, and it was weak the second time you brought it up). 

Like I say, I don't really want to criticise you too much as I don't really know what I would've done with this image either...but what you did write wasn't anything particularly standout from a technical point of view, didn't have a captivating narrative and didn't engage me as a reader.

Conclusion

I think this was a tough image to be landed with but I feel that Battler 3 took it way more in their stride & managed to style it out sufficiently well to collect enough points with their verse to swing the battle in their way. Sometimes you gotta make the best of a bad situation and I think Battler 3 coped a lot better with this image than 30...so they get my vote.

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