08-09-2013, 07:03 PM
(08-09-2013, 04:23 AM)ray Wrote: Thanks, ChristopherSea. I'm not quite sure what makes a rant a rant but this wasn't meant to be one or even close. The "Poor" in the title is of the "Ah, poor you" variety. It's a meta-poem.Writing poetry can be both a labor of love and like childbirth. If you feel that way about your work, whilst believing that others are just 'crapping them out' so to speak, I would have incorporated it into your poem.
You've a good point about the punctuation, sort of thing I'd say myself, but there's to be no commas in this.
Eyes burn at deformities and jaundice - which is an abbreviated way of saying "Eyes burn at the sight of deformities and jaundice".
I can see that without "and" or a comma before "the way you gulp for air" but I like the effect, though I'm now thinking on alternatives.
The last 6 lines were originally one stanza. It's meant to lament the inexorable slide of poems off the page on sites such as this one.
My new watercolor: 'Nightmare After Christmas'/Chris

