Primal (new poem, Edit 3)
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(11-19-2013, 11:17 PM)jdvanwijk Wrote:  
The room would shake violently
every ten minutes or so.
It was small, useless,
most treasured: my brother Is the room part of an abandoned railway station?
and I would spend hours there,
roaring and howling at the trains
crashing by.

A funeral today, another
support of the bridge has gone down. Is the funeral a metaphor relating to the bridge's gradual disassembly, or has the narrator returned to town for a literal funeral?
And like a ghost, I appeared
in front of our old house. Excellent couple of lines, coming as they do after a verse of joyous childhood memory.
It was quiet: Is this line needed?
they've buried the tracks,
placed a little park on top.

I closed my eyes,
fast train approaching. Is this a literal or remembered train?

Inhaled all the air in the park,
the streets, the city;
inhaled all the light from the houses,
the cars, the sun itself -

and let it all out. Wonderfully subtle last verse and line.
I found it really hard to critique this one because it's pretty much perfect as is. Compact, well-conveyed and rich in atmosphere. That's why most of my actual critique is just requests for clarification, and even my one suggestion for removal isn't one I feel very strongly about. Thank you for the readSmile
"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
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Primal (new poem, Edit 3) - by jdvanwijk - 11-19-2013, 11:17 PM
RE: Primal (new poem) - by heslopian - 11-20-2013, 12:05 AM
RE: Primal (new poem) - by jdvanwijk - 11-20-2013, 04:22 AM
RE: Primal (new poem, Edit 2 ) - by heslopian - 11-23-2013, 12:54 PM
RE: Primal (new poem) - by SkaaDee - 11-20-2013, 12:14 PM
RE: Primal (new poem) - by jdvanwijk - 11-20-2013, 05:13 PM
RE: Primal (new poem, Edit 1) - by milo - 11-21-2013, 08:39 AM
RE: Primal (new poem, Edit 1) - by jdvanwijk - 11-21-2013, 10:29 AM
RE: Primal (new poem, Edit 1) - by trueenigma - 11-21-2013, 10:19 AM
RE: Primal (new poem, Edit 1) - by jdvanwijk - 11-21-2013, 04:09 PM
RE: Primal (new poem, Edit 1) - by beaufort - 11-21-2013, 09:03 PM
RE: Primal (new poem, Edit 2 ) - by jdvanwijk - 11-22-2013, 06:15 PM
RE: Primal (new poem, Edit 2 ) - by milo - 11-23-2013, 08:38 AM
RE: Primal (new poem, Edit 2 ) - by jdvanwijk - 11-23-2013, 09:35 PM
RE: Primal (new poem, Edit 2 ) - by milo - 11-24-2013, 03:17 AM
RE: Primal (new poem, Edit 2 ) - by jdvanwijk - 11-24-2013, 04:50 AM
RE: Primal (new poem, Edit 3) - by milo - 11-24-2013, 05:27 AM
RE: Primal (new poem, Edit 3) - by jdvanwijk - 11-24-2013, 06:19 AM
RE: Primal (new poem, Edit 3) - by jdvanwijk - 11-24-2013, 06:43 PM
RE: Primal (new poem, Edit 3) - by milo - 11-25-2013, 02:07 AM
RE: Primal (new poem, Edit 3) - by trueenigma - 11-25-2013, 01:18 AM
RE: Primal (new poem, Edit 3) - by jdvanwijk - 11-25-2013, 02:01 AM
RE: Primal (new poem, Edit 3) - by Charlesjoseph - 11-25-2013, 02:46 AM
RE: Primal (new poem, Edit 3) - by jdvanwijk - 11-25-2013, 03:13 AM
RE: Primal (new poem, Edit 3) - by trueenigma - 11-25-2013, 03:37 AM
RE: Primal (new poem, Edit 3) - by milo - 11-25-2013, 03:48 AM
RE: Primal (new poem, Edit 3) - by trueenigma - 11-25-2013, 03:55 AM
RE: Primal (new poem, Edit 3) - by milo - 11-25-2013, 03:58 AM
RE: Primal (new poem, Edit 3) - by trueenigma - 11-25-2013, 05:29 AM
RE: Primal (new poem, Edit 3) - by milo - 11-25-2013, 05:47 AM
RE: Primal (new poem, Edit 3) - by trueenigma - 11-25-2013, 05:56 AM
RE: Primal (new poem, Edit 3) - by jdvanwijk - 11-25-2013, 04:16 PM
RE: Primal (new poem, Edit 3) - by jdvanwijk - 11-29-2013, 06:42 PM
RE: Primal (new poem, Edit 3) - by LanceRocks - 11-30-2013, 12:17 AM
RE: Primal (new poem, Edit 3) - by jdvanwijk - 11-30-2013, 06:57 PM
RE: Primal (new poem, Edit 3) - by LanceRocks - 12-01-2013, 01:21 PM
RE: Primal (new poem, Edit 3) - by jdvanwijk - 12-01-2013, 07:50 PM
RE: Primal (new poem, Edit 3) - by LanceRocks - 12-01-2013, 11:49 PM
RE: Primal (new poem, Edit 3) - by Todd - 12-02-2013, 02:48 AM
RE: Primal (new poem, Edit 3) - by LanceRocks - 12-02-2013, 03:07 AM
RE: Primal (new poem, Edit 3) - by Todd - 12-02-2013, 03:09 AM



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