03-02-2013, 06:49 AM
(03-01-2013, 11:35 PM)saeity Wrote:OK. Look, it is a cliche in a cliche in a cliche...love (or war) is like chess, is like poetry BUT you made a really good stab at this. Now, what else can you write...I look forward to whatever it is....but not Mah Jong, please.
Sensingline breaks already covered by others.I do not know where this habitual perversity began but I wish it would stop. Line breaks are only useful when they convey additional meaning or are a structural part of the poems established form.
she was merely a porn No. You did not mean "porn"You meant "pawn". I know it,you know it and I know you know it...in spite of what others may read in to it
for the knight,
bordering
on the
perverse of his needsperversion or,at a push, perversity. Same comment as pawn.
she may have succumbed
had her logic
proved statistically
awry. This is good stuff. Punctuation would make it great stuff
He had the king
after all, ensconcingLeanne has covered this to the extent that she corrects the usage of the word "esconcing".....but it is the wrong word and I do not know what you are trying to say. Help.
to make her queen
disappear.
She’d seen many others
lose their castle, watch their horses
fall.
Aged and armed
with such an inscribable charm,Indescribable? Be careful of these peculiar word choices. Too many of them makes the reader lose faith in your competancy....and that would be a pity because you are playing chess and writing poetry....both are at risk, though I am a crap chess player and cannot judge in that area. Some may say I am a crap poet...but I hide it well. So should you
still, he was no match
for her intrepid
nature, having never played
the game of life
before, believing there’s no sin
in all or nothing,
losing was never
going to be an objective
however
well observed.
She danced
like a negative
with the Devil and his disciples-
and thank GOD,
she won… a good, if unexpected end. You can turn a phrase for sure.
Best,
tectak


You meant "pawn". I know it,you know it and I know you know it...in spite of what others may read in to it