01-12-2016, 11:47 AM
(01-10-2016, 12:43 AM)aschueler Wrote: “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”Okay I am back for more, but I am using my phone...presuming the acrostic component is important to you, I suggest going in and rewriting some lines or reworking the syntax. For example, in line 2 you could say, "at the side of the road stranded waving for help in." Also, it seems you want to use some foreign words. What if you put all your help words together. They could represent how helping doesn't know the boundaries of culture or country.
--Fred Rogers
Passing cars leave you feeling stupid.
Arms you wave for help, as you're stranded in
rain and cold with an exploded tire;
and your child sleeps, sheltered, with no
car seat. It was me who stopped
'Long the median, confused you, helped you
early that morning.
That none other did stop
except me I explained: Helping makes you vulnerable. Everyone is afraid, and Looks to their own.
You even furnished me with a new label
to explain to yourself why I stopped.
Uxor, pater, doctor, now helper.
I have been helped a few times and I have helped. One time I encountered a man out of gas. I wasn't about to have him in my car. I did return though with a gas can full of gas for him. He was stunned.
One thought is that your quote is deep and about finding the good in scary situations. I kind of feel like you could be more dramatic with this pairing. The quote seems almost about finding peace within terror. Well maybe that is for another one. Mainly I see a need to rework this a bit to make the syntax smoother and etc.
Helfer made me think of heifer too lol. In the poem I don't think it would be the case so much if appearing with the other helper words. I would keep those as helper words. Doctor??? Does that belong there?
"Write while the heat is in you...The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with." --Henry David Thoreau

