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  • This is a very old video I an aware but I just watched it and its been bothering me what you were you going to say to the person that got on the bus It shouldn't bother me but I'm just that kind of person that will obsess over something like that and spent the evening that I was supposed to be doing homework to trying to think of what you would have said So if you know what you were going to say then I would be ever so grateful if you could tell me and if you don't know what you would have said

  • Here's my shot at this 55 words thing:

    Nothing’s ever really happened to me, and my biggest fear is that nothing ever will. I know I’m still young, but what if I grow old and die, still not having done anything? What if I stay at home reading stories, instead of having my own to tell? One good adventure is all I ask.

  • I'm kinda getting obsessed with this challenge, so forgive me if I do a few comments.

    On my wall is a collage of memories. Old Pokemon posters and cards; a picture of the first time I saw him; a drawing by her, depicting me as in her dream; a letter of pure innocence addressed to a lie. I keep them, because I always wonder if I will ever be the same.

  • i'm reeeaaally late at writing one of these so here goes nothing...

    What comes with a glint of metal in the dim lights of a bathroom? Pain does. Blood will be shed, a war will be fought. I come back with bruises and cuts but these are all marks from a battle, a battle with myself. I can finally control the pain but will forever be scarred.

    yup 55 words :P

  • I lie compulsively. Scratch that: pathologically. I can't stop, even when I mean to do good. I've tried telling the truth, but it costed me your friendship. I don't even know if reality is part of my lies, it's all just blended together now. I feel nothing, but you make the world better. Come back.

  • Music. If there wasn't music to listen to how well would we live? No lyrics, no rhythm. I would say it would be a very boring and unhappy world. I think I should be quite sad if I could not play the songs you have wrote. I would be unhappy camper and that's a fact.

    55 words =]

  • In Verse:

    Hoping, wishing, praying, seeing-

    These all are things that mean believing.

    Whether through a vlog or friend,

    Our thoughts into the world we send.

    Dark's opposite is not just light,

    But love and hope and what is right!

    With some teamwork, our world could blossom

    Long as we don't forget to be awesome.

  • Expressing your love, three words may suffice. But if your love is complex, and it always is, you'll need more. A picture is worth a thousand words, but what if none of the words are right? I wanted to tell you I love you, but I don't know if I do. And neither do you.

  • The bodies of life were gone. The Sun was blinding. I couldn't save my children. "They should have saved you." said the Sun. I gave them a home and everything needed. They paved over and tortured me but I loved them. They killed each other but I loved them. And now I, dear old Earth, is left to die at their hands, but that's okay. I still love them. I love them so much. "Too much." Said the Sun. It hit me and everything was gone.

    Not 50 at all. oops.

  • Lifeless love, deathless kiss, loving embrace or cold, cold grip. Beautiful eyes, breathless soul, longing for peace, finding none. cold lips, cold soul, pale, morbid state. lightless insides, sickly skins, together but so far, so alone. stone cold hands, stone cold heart, loveless words, seemingly harmless, lovingly dead. these are the things felt by all.

    (YES! I was so worried I would have too much...and that it would suck...but, it does so.

  • I couldn't move, I tell myself. I did not move to save him. Through my fear I let the screams die down. And as I place flowers upon his grave I remember that I still pull that facade. To save myself I let him hit you. My own child, I failed you through selfish fear.

  • I do not understand where I sit. The walls are lined with hate. Alone i sit and contemplate a fate in which i do not dare to mistake as anything other than my path. I pray something will take away my sorrow. Saddly the morning looks bleak, and i do not dare to have hope.

    I doubt these things are still beaing read, but hey was fun to write :L so theres my 55 words x

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  • I can hardly keep my balance or even comprehend what has just happened. Didn't you see me around the corner? Mean is fate to do such a thing. To leave me standing here, unable to breathe, not knowing where I am or what I’ve done. Kill me, please; I cannot live. You were so beautiful.

  • One has but one life.

    So you better make it count.

    Bliss is something that can leave.

    It is something that you can loose sleep over.

    Something that you are afraid to loose.

    That is why my friend that there are so many people online at odd hours of the night.

    Only 51 but I think it makes sense... FYI it's like 4 am by me...

  • The next thing was unfathomable. My world stopped turning. -Figuratively, of course. Day and night still came. Even with day in and day out being a blur. My world was about to crash and nothing could stop it. Nothing that I knew would work. I'm stuck on one thing, stuck disbelieving that it happened. -Stuck.

  • The wind rushes through my open window, breathing the sweet night air. Blessed as it may be it still brings the mystery of the night and fear of the dark world. Stars can only shine so brightly, the moon so full, the only thing that can save me now is the voice telling me, go.

    Whether or not these are still read, best to get it out yes?

  • i dont care at all for what i did. you deserved everything u got. cheating, fucking everything you see. you know you dont deserve to breath. give me another 10 minutes to come back to life, and ill just through you away like you did me. slash, killing you softly.

  • A light, a smile, my smile, it all comes from your smile

    A time, a place, will always remind me about you

    In the darkest room, a moonless night, or from thousand mile

    In the hardest doom, there’s only one thing I could do

    I will always see your smile

    I will always love you

  • He's always there...he just seems to pop up. He never goes away. I can't get him off my mind--I think I may be in love. It's a shame that in no way is that feeling returned. At least not that I know of. I catch him staring--or maybe I just think he is.

  • No matter how hard I try I don't seem to be able to do this in 55 words. However, I'm in for a try and I'm staying for no less than that. Even if it may take me the whole 55 words, I'll do this and I won't be ashamed of the result. So, yeah...

    :D

  • You teach 500 students, and yet you manage to see me as the person I really am. Like a spare big sister or a favourite aunt. You smile at me, give me random hugs, compliment me and ask me how I’m doing. You have the gift of making people feel good. You’re my hero Janne.

    Thats my 55 words :)

  • He gave me it to me. A beautiful yellow flower. At the first time i rejected it, knowin' that he gave it to me thinking " I love her". It was too late when i realized the meaning and put it in a jar. Then each petal had fell over. I knew that it was over.

  • *out. I see you as a friend eddplant even though I am a stranger. I trust you with the words on my heart because I know you are not a danger. You amaze with every video you make, thank you for it all.

    xxSydney

  • I look down inside and do not see the you created by the world. There is a boy who is wearing a mans skin trying to make it his own. If only you knew how I still loved you, if only you knew how empty I am alone. Come back one day I call sadly!

    Oh how using 55 words is a hard task to do but I guess it's easy when words just flow through you. I write from my heart the words in my head. All those things I leave unsaid, afraid of scorn and doubt. Dear edd you provide for me places to let it all ou

  • Tell me something I cannot understand,

    Because I do not speak that language.

    Teach me words that I do not know,

    So I can learn how to describe you.

    Teach me how to make you smile,

    And I will soon learn how to make you laugh.

    Our goals are the same,

    Let's go there, together.

    -CharizardChar

  • Flocks of white choir robes, in groups laughing, twirling, dancing, their wings floating as they leave their captors to return to their cages. And I sit, a tiny off-white bump in tile gazing up past the folds of uniforms. I want to go back to my dorm and let my solitude keep me warm.

  • I am a beautiful creature. Talented, skilful, witty. My jokes are funny and my anecdotes are interesting. This is a great shame for this illusion I have built for myself within my bedroom walls shatters every time I part through my bedroom door. If only i could carry this illusion around. Oh wait, I can!

  • "Stunt her growth" He said. "I'ts too late for us, but we can still stunt her growth!". "Fit her in a square" said The Third Party, "they're save and secure."  "I'm circular!" said she. A sigh came from beyond the veil. Did He hear the slumber behind it? Did The Third Party? Did She?

  • It's only now I see how useless were all my speculations to help you find your path. You've done nothing but lash-out, leaving behind your footprints from our bloodbath. Perhaps you don't care, but there's something I need to say; I do not know why, but I'm thinking you're the one that got away.
  • I miss it all. The things we shared. The person you made me. The way I felt like I was worth something. That's all gone now. Eaten by time like rocks on the seas edge. You think the rocks will last forever. But one day you look up, and they're growing so much smaller. Gone.

  • I thought it. Then I regretted it. But it didn't matter, I thought it. Again. And again. Every time the creaky old door in the front of the cheery house opened and shut. Now that wonderful, peaceful, white door is gone, and so is he. And now, the house is bland. And I regret it.

    Eh, at least it made sense to me. :)

  • It's been a month. If I could go back i'd stop every argument and seal those moments with a hug. I'd tell her I love her, forever and always. Cancer stole my mum, but I refuse to let it steal my light. Treat others like it's your last moment with them. Don't have any regrets.

  • If I only had Fifty-five words could I say to you what I’ve been feeling.

    If I only had Fifty-five words could I tell you what’s on my mind.

    I will try in fifty-five words to tell you how I feel.

    I will try in Fifty-five words to say, I don’t know what to do.

  • When I look outside my window, the sight is never the same. Rain or sunshine. Day or night. Cloudy or clear. The days go by and I wonder should I face what happened or doubt some more? Would it have been diffrent if I saw him before his time or would there still be sorrow?

  • Ed, I love your videos and I wish you would make more. That is all I had to say so I will have to fill the space somehow. Time passes too quickly, clocks tick too loud, the days pass by me, and I realise I have not done the things i wish to have done. BYE!

  • The sun glistens, reflecting off my face. The vibrant green trees sway in the gentle breeze on the fine summer day. Gazing into the eyes of my love, whilst time stops and the world spins around me. The sudden rush you get when you talk to him or her. It is amazing, it is indescribable.

    I tried my best, Sorry if it isnt great, but its 55 words! :D

  • The darkness only enhances the eeriness of the scene before me. Shadows stretch along the concrete like monsters crouching for the kill. I walk slowly, the gravestones crumbling around me yet I carry on. I must find him. The wind whips the decaying leaves around my feet yet I carry on. I must find him.

  • A white body of light burnt through the stars and landed on me. It burned through my chest, such agony burning, brighter, hotter, and then black. I fought the darkness, wildly shrieking, tumbling, falling. Then it whispered in my ear. And I stopped, sinking into the abyss

    I was consumed, became darkness.

    Inspired by "Cosmic Love" by Florence and the Machine

  • I didnt mean to grip it so tightly. Now I can only watch as the light in his eyes fade away. The cold, hard, metal slips from my hand and clatters onto the wide open street. What they say, about curiosity killing the cat, its all true. I didnt mean to grip it so tightly.

    hmm... yeah that's 55 words iight.

  • @missdingaling Holy fuck, that's gorgeous. Good job!

  • i wanted to gaze at the stars from my window

    and say that you outshine them

    i wanted to hold you in my arms

    and never let us part

    a wasted dream

    a hopeless chance

    for nothing lasts forever

    i'm still staring out my bedroom window

    and still you dont outshine them

    in my loyalty to starlight

  • Thirteen seconds. That was all needed for him to die after his last breath. I had looked away and didn't even notice until it was too late. How long had it been now since I gazed down at his lifeless eyes? His pale, cold skin and blue lips? It no longer matters.

    Hope someone understands my 55 words. If you squint and turn your head to the side...nope still the same.

  • Brilliant use of 55 words! It doesn't matter if people understand your motive behind the prose, or what it means to you, what matters is that you know what it means!

  • giraffes have 4 legs and one big neck... thats my point and only 8 words

  • limited by these constraints how is it possible that i could ever express anything as profound as many of those

    below seem to have managed and you demonstrated in the video above.

    what can be said in so few words,

    and still understood by all?

    i still don't know what to write.

    oops, that's fifty five.

  • ok so this was about my best friend... My life was like a cell, small dull and square, until you ran screaming into my life and made me more aware. My life is now a circus, exotic and exciting with bright new things to see, So im thankful to you now for bombarding me showing me how happy that I could really be ok so this was a realy dodgy attempt im not to good at putting words together or articulating what it is i want to say at the best of times
  • this could be inaccurate depending on whether ur talking about a plant or animal cell lol

  • I can't believe I haven't been subscribed to EddPlant before, it's really strange because I seem to already be following him on Twitter, this is an amazing concept and I would put more effort in but I haven't the time which is sad, very sad!

  • 21 seconds. I see sound leaving my breath and violent, emotionless eyes. They tell me to hurt as they have. The tears they spill are beautiful - I realize that my life is written with my eyes closed, my trust unbreakable. So I take three steps away from the mirror, out of this barely breathing

    I, too, have a fetish with numbers :)

    Hope these 55 words make sense.

  • I heard a woman say this on a bus: I looked and it had frozen. And the drips had stopped. I panicked for a bit though, I mean should I take it down or leave it up? Theres only a thin bit of wire between the table and that cabbage,

  • how i wonder who i will become where i will live and what i had done to get were i was were ever it may be on the ocean or sea on the land or sand in the sky just passing bye but i can only wonder were and hope life will take me there :]
  • i am not that creative so maybe you can make one for me lol

  • The empty sky has lost it's stars. I gaze distantly into the orange glow of late night street lamps. The noise of cars driving past my window and students returning from nights out. City life. The hustle and bustle, people, Christmas lights up too early. I think of home and miss only the stars.

    well there was my attempt at being profound in 55 words. maybe I should stick to the science... hmmm.

  • No way, that was epic!

  • really? Thank you!

    =D

    I'm all smiley now!

  • eyebrows.

  • I has them? :/

  • hard to miss when you wave them around like that.

  • My life is over. My one greatest flaw revealed. What do you suggest, style guru?

  • Hmm. Longer fringe.

    Excellent enunciation by the way, was nice to listen to.

  • Haha, I'm working on it! And thank you :)

  • The youtube shirt was priceless.

  • yay i posted a video response :) its rubbish though xD

  • I want to make a video response, but it's been like two months. :/

  • Why let that stop you? I say go for it!

  • Shutup XGoniX

    Anyway u are so awesome, i love ur poetry

    Seriously it is so good!!!

    :) I have no idea What id say in 50 words, ill have to reply with Avid, or another comment :)

    Bye

    xx

    Alix

  • Ahahahahahaha... a) no, and b) why?

  • Its healthy for you

  • What, a hair cut? What magazines have you been reading?

  • Hahaha

  • love the twitchy eyesbrows! lol!

  • This is meant to be in song form but I'm not to swift on the whole movie maker front yet. maybe I will sing it on a later date but here goes nothing.... 55 words is far too much when all I want is your touch those three little words will do just fine I wanna make you mine 55 words is far too much when your in love baby I'm in love lets stay home turn out the lights can't I be yours if just for tonight?
  • 0.38

    I WANT YOUR SHIRT!!!!

    geat vid!

  • Ok, I really don't understand the whole 55 words thing. Explain the game? or whatever for me please? anyone? =]

  • The idea is that you write a piece of poetry or prose, but that you limit it's length to 55 words. You can try and write a complete piece, or begin one and simply stop when you hit 55 - both elicit interesting results! Have a go!

  • I actually have a tshirt somewhere with "emo" written on it. I think it's quite funny. Not sure I quite get the connection here, though :)

  • thank you :) very thoughtful.

  • I have been writing for years But I kept it a secret It helps me express My loves and fears. I guess its nice to know There are others, Who put that pen to paper And let there imagination flow. Its not hard I tell my peers And so they continue to be Expressionless Just wrote that on the spot first poem I've ever shown people so can I please have constructive criticism
  • On the second last line change and so to but

  • wrong form of there.

  • i made it there are instead of they're so i would have 55 words

  • they're is one word.

  • ahahahah oh and i just looked at it again and it's supposed to be their anyways. geez.

  • hahahaah ohh i just looked at it again and it's supposed to be their anyways. geez.

  • Their is a possessive pronoun. It always describes a noun.

    Note the spelling of their. It comes from the word they, so the e comes before the i.

    There is an adverb meaning "that location." It is sometimes used with the verb to be as an idiom. It is spelled like here which means "this location."

    They're is a contraction of they are. Note the spelling: The a from are is replaced by an apostrophe.

  • The wind blows through the trees

    Echoes it's ghostly whisper

    And lets all who will listen

    Hear its tale

    But its tale is lost,

    For not many people will take the time to listen

    Or acknowledge that it's even there

    And so the tale fades away,

    Never to be heard by any living thing

    Ever

  • in 55 words...

  • i can't be arsed but good idea lol

  • i love this.

    i want to do it.

    im going to do it.

    you wait!

    great video :) x

  • this is cool im gonna think about my words ;)

  • We r born, Starting to die. Yet we do not mourn, Nor start to cry. A goodbye? Or hello? Another try, So mellow. A killer's knife, Lusting life. Fer price of one, Give it all. Hold ur gun, Standing to fall. Wut does this really mean? Understanding the unseen. Life broken down, Death soon found.

  • i could maybe manage a suicide note,lmao

  • She's gone, he's in. Now we wonder who will win. Republican, Democrat, another disappointing bureaucrat. Special Interests, lobbyists with cash to spread. After eight years of Bush, how many innocents will be dead? She's gone, he's in. Preachers succumb to sin. Republican, Democrat, I don't care about all that. Cast your vote! Look forward, ahead.
  • oh my gosh im so soryy i thumbed you down! i ment  thumbs up, i loved the poem!

    *reloads page and fixes booboo*

  • lol no problem!  Thanks for the compliment

  • Great idea!

  • Now that is a challenge I will take up :)

    I have a poem I'm in the middle of - I'll revamp it a bit :) (I have no idea how many words it has! LOL)

  • I like this idea :)

    I wrote something; I'll try and psyche myself up to record it.

    Any particular reason why you chose 55 words? just wondering

  • Walking back to crawling, Sleeping back to awake. Death back to birth, Heroes are never late One life to live proud One death to come Only you to make paths As time beats like a drum Goodbye to the past Hello to what's new Gone from meaning I ask you?
  • damn. that's good.

  • I watched the wind in the trees,

    The boughs bowing softly in air

    The cold evening passed, and left nothing

    And it reminded me of this embrace,

    Haunting, changing

    And ethereal part of a material world

    But one that I could never touch

    I held you there on that cool night-

    I won't let go.

  • Oh man this is awesome. Thumbed up.

  • The approval of eddplant? You sir have just made my week much brighter. :-D

  • fantastic man :]

  • Thanks dude!

  • OH OH OH i love the 'show me'

    And i am BLATANTLY going to do a response to this... tomorrow... or maybe today..

    WHO KNOWS.

  • Yay :)

  • That was amazing!

  • Ooh, exceptionally clever idea...

  • Why thank you sir, and no makes-you-look-clever glasses required :P

  • Starts thinking ....

  • i typed 55 words and it never showed up :(

  • I might be doing a video response, but it will in no way be as poetic as yours :(

  • Poetry or prose, it's the word count that matters! I look forward to the possibility :D

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