Haunted by Jellyfish
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Oh, I know, it was a bad hair cut and dye job Hysterical

Quote:Haunted by jellyfish -- great opening line, full of imagery and promise
Slick clogs in the drain
Made of spilling saltwater -- maybe "born of" instead of "made of"?
And hard raging pain -- hard and raging are both fairly bland adjectives, I'd love to see something more specific here

Pink stings went unnamed
Mistaken for sane
Save for Harmless and Natural
And Redheaded Jane -- this is a terrific stanza

Long tentacles linger -- I think you can do away with "long", it's unaccented anyway and doesn't add much to the image
Still writhing too near
Ghosts faded in memory
Rattle chains around here -- to make these two lines work with your meter, you really need to replace "memory" with a single syllable, strongly accented word.

We pretend they’re all dead -- you could try "we pretend that they're dead"
Those specters of fear
Just a pair of size twelves
Can squash them, my dear -- excellent close
It could be worse
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Haunted by Jellyfish - by monablackbird - 01-15-2013, 10:44 PM
RE: Long Autumn’s Shore - by Todd - 01-15-2013, 11:06 PM
RE: Long Autumn’s Shore - by monablackbird - 01-15-2013, 11:33 PM
RE: Long Autumn’s Shore - by billy - 01-16-2013, 06:01 PM
RE: Long Autumn’s Shore - by monablackbird - 01-16-2013, 09:08 PM
RE: Long Autumn’s Shore - by Todd - 01-16-2013, 09:11 PM
RE: Long Autumn’s Shore - by monablackbird - 01-16-2013, 09:30 PM
RE: Long Autumn’s Shore - by Todd - 01-16-2013, 09:35 PM
RE: Long Autumn’s Shore - by monablackbird - 01-16-2013, 09:38 PM
RE: Long Autumn’s Shore - by Todd - 01-16-2013, 10:14 PM
RE: Haunted by Jellyfish - by monablackbird - 01-17-2013, 08:36 AM
RE: Haunted by Jellyfish - by billy - 01-17-2013, 08:40 AM
RE: Haunted by Jellyfish - by monablackbird - 01-17-2013, 08:43 AM
RE: Haunted by Jellyfish - by Leanne - 01-17-2013, 08:51 AM
RE: Haunted by Jellyfish - by monablackbird - 01-17-2013, 09:32 PM
RE: Haunted by Jellyfish - by Todd - 01-17-2013, 10:05 PM
RE: Haunted by Jellyfish - by monablackbird - 01-17-2013, 10:56 PM
RE: Haunted by Jellyfish - by Todd - 01-17-2013, 11:25 PM
RE: Haunted by Jellyfish - by brandontoh - 01-17-2013, 11:30 PM
RE: Haunted by Jellyfish - by monablackbird - 01-18-2013, 12:13 AM
RE: Haunted by Jellyfish - by Todd - 01-18-2013, 12:45 AM
RE: Haunted by Jellyfish - by monablackbird - 01-18-2013, 01:14 AM
RE: Haunted by Jellyfish - by Todd - 01-18-2013, 01:23 AM
RE: Haunted by Jellyfish - by monablackbird - 01-19-2013, 06:58 AM
RE: Haunted by Jellyfish - by Leanne - 01-19-2013, 07:33 AM
RE: Haunted by Jellyfish - by billy - 01-19-2013, 07:58 AM
RE: Haunted by Jellyfish - by heslopian - 01-19-2013, 09:45 PM
RE: Haunted by Jellyfish - by monablackbird - 01-20-2013, 02:52 AM



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