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Serraley Junior Member
since 1999-10-09
Posts 11New Zealand |
A breath that is the softness of a flutter of heart-wings wakes me and stirs the eyelashes that tint his cheek. Curls rest more deeply than his body over shave-roughened skin. Huddles between shoulders curled around to protect a soul and yet me too. Solidity and fragility and sweet fragrant self A heart open and closed. Question and answer one. A breath stirs his lashes open and morning shadows lighten the room. ------------------ As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; ~Gerard Manley Hopkins |
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desperado Member
since 1999-05-24
Posts 312FT Hood,Tx |
this was a nice piece, though it never really gained my attention till the last line. the rest of the poem was too disjunctured to keep me speel bound to some of it's words. here are a few I liked, yet couldn't pay much attention to due to the poems nature. ...stirs the eyelashes that tint his cheek. I'd recommend putting that in one line if possible. shave-roughened... this is great, it reminds me of my grandfathers face, or that of a man who has done manual labor most of his life (though my grandfather had a desk job.). the rest of that stanza was really too disjunctured to feel rhythmical at all. ...morning shadows lighten... this is a great bit right here at the end. not the best in the world mind you (lets face it, the best is only an opinion.), but great enough to accomplish it's task. you have some good concepts and phrases, but the rhythm and rhyme (if any) are too weak to support any of it. work on it and it will get better. good luck. |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
My Heartsister - this is superb. And knowing you like I do I know that it was never your intent to make a rhythmical, structured piece. (Desperado, you were too harsh!) This flows beautifully, I think - capturing those waking moments. HUGS!!!! |
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
I have to agree with it beign superb! I felt like I was looking at a silent motion picture, angled to cath the glow of life, rather than reveal the harshness of reality...well done! Bravo! |
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Serraley Junior Member
since 1999-10-09
Posts 11New Zealand |
Chris - Thankyou! You reaffirm my faith in any of my own work (and your comments were like a poem in themselves!)  Desperado - Thanks for your honest opinion. I would point out that this was meant to be free verse hence the lack of 'rhyme' and the disjointed style was deliberate. I look forward to reading some of your own work. Severn - wow! My first poem on here, and it was wonderful to read your reply! |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
This deserves to go right back up! |
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Nara Junior Member
since 1999-10-31
Posts 11 |
Serraley, congrats on your first poem here. I've yet to post and know what a step it can be. I like the way you capture such opposites in your subject. The duality that is all of us on some level or another: "Solidity and fragility" "a heart open and closed. Question and answer in one". Such opposites combined in one being deserve to be reflected in a poem's slightly "disjunctured" format. Innocence and experience were ever uneasy bedfellows - why should they rest more smoothly in a poem than the reality you depict? Well done! |
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