From blossom to bottle (Edit 2)
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I'll try my best to give you some helpful feedback here though I may misinterpret things that are obvious to most.
(07-07-2013, 10:10 PM)cidermaid Wrote:  This is dedicated to a wonderful woman and an outstanding poet who has encouraged and inspired me in more ways than she could possibly know.

From blossom to bottle.

On that first morning you arose; -- You switch from semicolons to commas are you haphazardly using punctuation or are you consciously being grammatically correct?
a freshly budded bundle of unshaken inspiration,
a youthful trembling of translucent cream complexioned dreams,
top tipped with pale pink lips. - I am a bit confused here
The early promise of perfection seen within a soft and foppish
five point crown; under liveried in British racing green. -- I'm confused here but that could be my ignorance.
Reaching up lit skies your creamy golden globes-- reaching up to lit skies?
swung to and fro, carefree to play the breeze. - To play in the breeze? or maybe Playing carefree in the breeze?

You did not understand the wilful hands
that grasped your soft hearted parts
and dashed your potential against the bloodied departing sun. -- The bloodied departing sun. Is this referring to the sunrise or something. I'm probably missing something.
Ripping apart all that you had saved
and set aside for a consummated start. -- This sounds like you're talking about Sylvia Plath who had her notebooks torn apart or burned or something. I like the sentiment of a woman who has to give up her dreams and work to enter into the constrained bonds of matrimony and become a cookie cutter image of a wife.

Fragrant in a white wedding gown, you passed from hand to hand,
snip, snipped from maternal chords
you released your creamy golden load. -Creamy golden load I am a bit confused it almost sounds like busting a nut (I'm being facetious) maybe others will get what you were after.
Halos of sherbet lemon burst
in clouds of dusted worth – poetry birthed in adversity.
Deserting near neighbours marched a million micro steps
across the kitchen table top, -- Kitchen table top is a great image to show what women were supposed to do according to societal roles
to be trapped in windowless pains of webbed deceit.
The snare of berried beauty left hanging beyond their peek,
fit only for the birds to eat. -- I assume you meant berried as opposed to buried. You might be able to make the metaphor more clear but it is your call.

Plucked and trimmed, the stalk
your support, dripped with green pee.
Catty and maliciously dirty.
Deflowered, but un-wilted your scent broke free
from the five wounded leaves that could not heal
and you slipped into a sloppy syrup
that soothed your shredded confetti bits
and wooed the poetic pollen from your parted lips. -- yes your plant metaphor seems to be working, hopefully others can give you some better comments.

Artfully matured, unstoppered words of grace now flow,
blessing and blowing effervescing scents
of a summer breeze and cidery elderflowered ease
that fuels the tongue of the poet’s creed. - It reads pleasantly.
Tried my best with your poem, but I struggled to think of any advice I could give you for editing.
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Messages In This Thread
From blossom to bottle (Edit 2) - by cidermaid - 07-07-2013, 10:10 PM
Blosom to bottle (Edit 3) - by Brownlie - 07-08-2013, 12:51 AM
RE: From blossom to bottle - by R.C. KITCHENS - 07-08-2013, 01:20 PM
RE: From blossom to bottle - by cidermaid - 07-08-2013, 07:41 PM
RE: From blossom to bottle - by tectak - 07-11-2013, 01:15 AM
RE: From blossom to bottle - by cidermaid - 07-11-2013, 02:04 AM
RE: From blossom to bottle - by tectak - 07-11-2013, 03:29 AM
RE: From blossom to bottle (Edit 2) - by tectak - 07-12-2013, 05:01 PM
RE: From blossom to bottle (Edit 2) - by tectak - 07-12-2013, 10:47 PM
RE: From blossom to bottle (Edit 2) - by tectak - 07-14-2013, 11:05 PM
RE: From blossom to bottle (Edit 2) - by Brownlie - 07-13-2013, 01:32 AM
RE: From blossom to bottle (Edit 2) - by Lauren Greenwood - 07-13-2013, 06:43 AM
RE: From blossom to bottle (Edit 2) - by tectak - 07-13-2013, 09:27 PM
RE: From blossom to bottle (Edit 2) - by tectak - 07-14-2013, 04:11 AM
RE: From blossom to bottle (Edit 2) - by Brownlie - 07-14-2013, 05:15 AM
RE: From blossom to bottle (Edit 2) - by Brownlie - 07-14-2013, 05:26 AM
RE: From blossom to bottle (Edit 2) - by tectak - 07-18-2013, 01:23 AM



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