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Consecrated Harmony
Eager wounds express their knowledge in the dawn,
bloody
from the darkness, weary guns cry out--
noisy
forking through a desert, a frightening fight endures.
fiercely
Armies, the obscure lambs in autumn, stop, then step:
charging
The evanescent systems imploding within, truculent children immolated into
battle.
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(07-11-2022, 11:00 PM)Torkelburger Wrote: Consecrated Harmony
Empty wounds illume their knowledge in the dawn, if the wounds are empty, how can they illume (and I don't care for the archaic "illume") ?
bloody
from the darkness, weary guns shout-- guns "shout" seems the wrong word here......"cry out, wail, clamor...."?
noisy
forking through a desert, a frightening fight endures.
fiercely
Armies, the recondite lambs in autumn, stop, then step: "obscure lambs" or something less latinate than "recondite"
charging
The evanescent systems imploding within, most truculent children were immolating off
to war. immolated into war?
T-
A lot of interesting images here, but it reads like a set of notes for an unfinished poem.
A few notes above.
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Empty wounds illume their knowledge in the dawn,
bloody
Empty of blood.
from the darkness, weary guns shout--
Shout, but not shoot or shot.
noisy
Dark noisy.
Sunlight, wounds empty.
forking through a desert, a frightening fight endures.
fiercely
I see the hanging words outside the periods. I think they can as well fit between the periods.
Armies, the recondite lambs in autumn, stop, then step:
charging
I see the play of autumn youth and death, stopping, starting, and intensely charging.
The evanescent systems imploding within, most truculent children were immolating off
to war.
All this is/was evanescent. Not bad. Not exactly novice, as this section of the forum used to be called.
To war anyway. The most truculent.
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Thank you TqB and rowens for the comments. Edited version posted above.
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(07-11-2022, 11:00 PM)Torkelburger Wrote: Consecrated Harmony
Eager wounds express their knowledge in the dawn,
bloody
from the darkness, weary guns cry out--
noisy
forking through a desert, a frightening fight endures.
fiercely
Armies, the obscure lambs in autumn, stop, then step:
charging
The evanescent systems imploding within, truculent children immolated into
battle.
T-
Like this new version very much. Seems a completed poem now. Good work.
TqB
“All persons, living or dead, are entirely coincidental.” Kurt Vonnegut