03-18-2015, 03:09 AM
(01-20-2015, 05:24 AM)Utnapishtim Wrote: P.D.Q.Though there is a very obvious and spelled out series of events and such (the man and the car and the very thin alley way) , i feel if there is any deeper meaning i at least could not clue into it, and i still dont understand what PDQ means. On another note, your imagery is good, and your word choice is also very well done, though some of the lines are oddly written or dont make sense, as i noted. Theres plenty of greatness in this poem, well done, and i look forward to a revision shoukd you choose to rewrite it.
What do you do
If the trouble arises from a choice
One has already sealed
And mailed off long ago,
Like parcels to world’s end? this first stanza is well penned
A driver sees an alley,
Travels down it,
And soon finds it too narrow.
The price for going forward is bodywork.
If ego and a wallet were on similar scales
He might live with gnarly scratches,it might just be me but gnarly is not the right word in my opinion
Or toss his cash to craftsmen.
His ears adjust to shrieks of metal,
The scarring, as well as the scarred.this confused me
Our bulk ruins the brickwork here the perspective changes from "a driver" to "we".
Of boundaries enshrining us on either side.
Backing out never occurs to a lead foot.
We park ourselves therein, surrender
To destination’s ego, having begged,
Borrowed, and stolen to get here.
Bad things do transpire when terrible people
Aren’t smart enough to run.
What’s so wrong with the directionhere it changes back to "he" again
Of his origin?
Who did he disappoint last year?
These freedoms we named choice
Are seedlings grown into folly's foliagethis line is really good
Marking the way to one point in terminus.
To lower the eyes bows the head.this line makes no sense gramatically[b][/b]
He shakes his hands off of the 10, and the 2.
He holds his palms together as in the desperation
Of single-minded closing. this doesnt make sense to me...is this a single mind closing or the closing of single mindedness?
He knows that the reopening of either,his hands and his head?
Or both,
Won’t change the past obstructing him.
Only the thumps of his heart run now.

