07-28-2014, 01:17 PM
Slowl
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My heart blooms on the waters edge where
The giant waits, him thinking I would die.
He sat to take a seat, and so did I.
Watched timid roosters knitting anxious sweaters
with a hundred vees upon the bared
June soil between blue-leafed tobacco isles
scratching loose a wormy thread, sky
lost, looming heavenly, cursed, dreadful . . .
In the night, the roots are visible,
wet. Shining in my match-lit pipe, Dorado
in a thimble smokes. The rain pools
around my heels, and sorrow cools.
I lived in a man's house. He was; he was.
And he was here, today. Now, here's his ghost.
AUTHOR'S NOTES
(1) I've been kicking this thing around for a month, and just wanted some first-pass feedback.
(2) My aim is to have the rhymes and rhythms work sometimes and not work others, but also sometimes to only work if you slice words and move syllables down to the start of the next line. The goal is for the poem to work when you "listen out" but not when you "listen in." For referrence, I'm trying to write a poem that works like this: http://www.radiolab.org/story/313542-dawn-midi/
(3) This poem isn't ready to post, but I wanted some light feedback.
(4) The effect I'm looking for is best captured in "thread, sky / lost, looming" the way it can be read as "thread, SKY / lost, LOOMing".
--thanks!
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My heart blooms on the waters edge where
The giant waits, him thinking I would die.
He sat to take a seat, and so did I.
Watched timid roosters knitting anxious sweaters
with a hundred vees upon the bared
June soil between blue-leafed tobacco isles
scratching loose a wormy thread, sky
lost, looming heavenly, cursed, dreadful . . .
In the night, the roots are visible,
wet. Shining in my match-lit pipe, Dorado
in a thimble smokes. The rain pools
around my heels, and sorrow cools.
I lived in a man's house. He was; he was.
And he was here, today. Now, here's his ghost.
AUTHOR'S NOTES
(1) I've been kicking this thing around for a month, and just wanted some first-pass feedback.
(2) My aim is to have the rhymes and rhythms work sometimes and not work others, but also sometimes to only work if you slice words and move syllables down to the start of the next line. The goal is for the poem to work when you "listen out" but not when you "listen in." For referrence, I'm trying to write a poem that works like this: http://www.radiolab.org/story/313542-dawn-midi/
(3) This poem isn't ready to post, but I wanted some light feedback.
(4) The effect I'm looking for is best captured in "thread, sky / lost, looming" the way it can be read as "thread, SKY / lost, LOOMing".
--thanks!