Fatherhood (Edit 3)
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Quote:We require our worlds be turned upside down
Before we can see they are right-side up.
I’d never turn round, I’d never go back,
From here on out I only move forward.
i think i prefer this stanza. e.g.

Quote:Yesterday…

I laid on my beanbag watching TV,
Games consumed a great deal of my free time.
in the first line you seem to be talking about just one day, and in the second you seem to be talking about the past in general. is this deliberate? even if it is, i think the switch from literal to figurative language doesn't work here. i quite like the diction in the first line, but you seem to get a bit flatter as you switch to talking more generally.

if you want to keep a specific to general structure / switch, i'd recommend livening up the latter.

Quote:Yesterday…

I laid on my beanbag watching TV,
Games consumed a great deal of my free time
one way to do that would be to change "a great deal" to something like an exclamation:
"I laid on my beanbag watching TV / computer games consumed so much free time".

that may not be quite what you want, but you get the idea

that somewhat flat (not really dry) language is less of a problem in the third stanza.
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Messages In This Thread
Fatherhood (Edit 3) - by Blake - 01-21-2014, 07:50 AM
RE: Fatherhood - by Blake - 01-21-2014, 08:16 AM
RE: Fatherhood - by kingmicahde - 01-21-2014, 08:48 AM
RE: Fatherhood - by Blake - 01-21-2014, 09:11 AM
RE: Fatherhood (Edit 1) - by kingmicahde - 01-21-2014, 09:28 AM
RE: Fatherhood (Edit 2) - by Blake - 01-22-2014, 12:59 AM
RE: Fatherhood (Edit 2) - by ellajam - 01-22-2014, 02:40 AM
RE: Fatherhood (Edit 3) - by Blake - 01-22-2014, 04:21 AM
RE: Fatherhood (Edit 3) - by clemonz - 01-22-2014, 04:48 AM



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