02-11-2013, 08:03 AM
(01-20-2013, 06:35 PM)cidermaid Wrote: Apparently this form is called Nonet (1st line 9 syllables decreasing down to line 9 with just 1 syllable...then i reversed it just because).You have some good stuff here, but there isn't a natural rhythm. Rather it feels like a slideshow of poetic images. The images are good, they just don't have a unifying flow. JMHO, of course. Thank you for the read
Refresh me with apples.
Like an apple tree, my fine lover. Could you switch these clauses? As it is this line feels like truncated dialogue. I didn't realise until I'd read the poem once that the narrator's comparing her lover to an apple tree.
A billowing love banner blush
A blanket of confetti.
He supports and shades me.
I partake of his, Why is there a comma here?
laid out banquet.
Refreshed,
I
faint. I kind of like how "I" and "faint" each have their own lines. It gives the impression of falling, which of course one does while fainting.
Crushed fruit,
a felled tree.
Lumber harvest.
The logos logged fuel.
Distilled aromatics.
An outstanding apple tree.
Fragrance filled, alabaster jar,
broken, but not stumped – a new tree grows.
(I know...not much to recommend, the text is predictably boring. Just like experimenting with new forms)
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe

