08-30-2012, 12:55 AM
(08-21-2012, 11:27 PM)raymond trevitt Wrote: This is nice. This is a nice crit.......and that's when I like a piece. Seriously, though...a Curate's egg of a poem. Take no notice of my poetic suggestions, you have plenty of your own, but I think that with some rivet work on the hull you will have a vessel with integrity.
Hiding in the corners of the evening,A subjectless start but it may recover....a good opener nonetheless.
sheltered by the edges of the wind,Still promising something....I am intrigued
searching for that something to believe in,Perhaps one too many searches BUT.......there's many a man walking the streets.
searching for the will to live again......who didn't get his subject out in time. Try "I am searching for the will to live again". JMT
In the coldest corners of NovemberI am taken by this corner obsession but fear you are heading for a polygon if you keep it up. Would "cavities" work?
when Autumn seeks her shelter in the ice, ..in ice bright. See next lines.
then I'll find a reason to remember
the darkness of the shadows cast at night.A very weak and forced line. In spite of its wekness it manages to get in a bit of a clicheTry "how long became her shadow in the night." See L2 change above
Whate'er the reason that you chose to giveThe enjambment does not work. I almost fell off my stool. Try:
"Whatever reason you should choose to give
for relinquishing the beauty where you hide
up the empty beauty where you hide,
It was there I knew the reason that I lived
remembering the shadows cast inside.almost a repeat of the last verse so just not saying anything new. You must stop remembering shadows, you will end up staying that way. Also, the sentence structure is flaky in that you are talking of a location (it was there) by describing it as an emotional linkage then you fail to follow through. Should the sentence be " It was there I knew the reason that I lived;" Then, say," though conscious of the bleakness here inside" or somesuch.
But in the silence of the ending dayBut me no buts.GET MAD AT IT! : "I curse the silence of the ending day
and the faithless tide that carried you away
on faithless tides I watched you slip away.
Best,
tectak


Try "how long became her shadow in the night." See L2 change above