< like leaves >
#5
(06-27-2015, 07:01 AM)rayheinrich Wrote:  

                            [Image: leaves.jpg]


                                                                  < like leaves >
                                                                                      for Pat
                                                                       
                                                                a picnic blanket
                                                                in the park
                                                                the leaves
                                                                the sun glows through them
                                                                as we're lying here
                                                                i listen to you
                                                                read the poems you love
                                                                you tell me of your day
                                                                your breath
                                                                the casual warmth
                                                                of your light touch
                                                                these simple things
                                                                so quickly gone
                                                                       
                                                                and here we are
                                                                the chill of fall
                                                                where all is quiet except our hearts
                                                                we watch the leaves content to fall
                                                                through shadows of late afternoon
                                                                and we pretend they are not us
                                                                       
                                                                but on this blanket
                                                                in this park
                                                                our love
                                                                it draws us up
                                                                it weaves us tight
                                                                and we forget the time
                                                                we'll have no summers left
                                                                no winters waiting for us
                                                                when our wishes, promises
                                                                will lie like leaves
                                                                turned lazily from breeze to breeze
                                                                our life
                                                                our love
                                                                how quickly gone
                                                                how slight our light breath moves    
                                                                across these leaves
                                                                       
                                                                            - - -
                                                               
                                                               
Hi ray,
you may think that you are bear-bating me with this....but it won't work, I tell you. It won't work.Smile
OK...I love the enjambments. They are reasonable, sensible, predictive, sensitive...I could go on. The sans capitals force me to make decisions based solely on the clues and consequences in the text....and it works beautifully. Perhaps a comma after "promises" but there are alternative, and very slightly different, meanings...nuances even...made by any such changes.
Overviewing work like this is a minefield of good intentions. I enjoy the certainty in whisfulness so perfectly portrayed. It is rare to be able to make such certain judgement on the inner machinations of someone else's mind...there is a risk that by eulogy you think that I am condoning the lack of common practice, and BOOM, up it all goes in an explosion of acceptability. You may try to write like this often. It often fails. This one doesn't and that makes it rare.
Very best.
tectak
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Messages In This Thread
< like leaves > - by rayheinrich - 06-27-2015, 07:01 AM
RE: < like leaves > - by Keith - 06-28-2015, 06:35 AM
RE: < like leaves > - by rayheinrich - 07-01-2015, 02:45 PM
RE: < like leaves > - by just mercedes - 07-01-2015, 03:12 PM
RE: < like leaves > - by tectak - 07-01-2015, 11:04 PM
RE: < like leaves > - by milo - 07-01-2015, 11:12 PM
RE: < like leaves > - by Mark A Becker - 07-02-2015, 12:21 AM
RE: < like leaves > - by NobodyNothing - 07-04-2015, 12:09 PM
RE: < like leaves > - by rayheinrich - 09-04-2015, 08:02 PM
RE: < like leaves > - by milo - 09-05-2015, 02:22 PM
RE: < like leaves > - by rayheinrich - 09-05-2015, 10:40 PM



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