The undoing
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(04-17-2016, 10:10 PM)Shrewbe Wrote:  I had previously posted this under "novice". However, I'd like to seriously work on improving this piece and learning more.



A thread so soft, I'd remove one of these descriptors.  Personally, I'd choose to cut "soft."
smooth, 
gentle,
coy;
unraveled.


Bit by bit,
fiber upon fiber  the repetition in these two lines doesn't seem to add to the poem
of velvety decadence. I don't love "velvety decadence"
A gush took it over
of the wind; disheveled.


With it modesty,
animosity, affections,
passionately fluttered. "passionately" bogs it down a little


On the ground then "then "
I saw what was left,
unraveled
uninhibited;
undone.
I like what you're trying to say with the use of "coy," "modesty," etc. but they aren't words used to describe a thread.  It's slightly unclear whether you're watching the thread's human characteristics fall (nonsensical), or if you're watching your own (speaker's) attributes unravel alongside the thread (what I think you might be getting at). 

That being said, it's interesting and fresh! I like it.  The last three lines serve as a strong ending.


Messages In This Thread
The undoing - by Shrewbe - 04-17-2016, 10:10 PM
RE: The undoing - by Achebe - 04-18-2016, 08:00 PM
RE: The undoing - by Shrewbe - 04-18-2016, 08:22 PM
RE: The undoing - by Achebe - 04-18-2016, 08:47 PM
RE: The undoing - by Erthona - 04-19-2016, 07:16 AM
RE: The undoing - by Shrewbe - 04-19-2016, 03:34 PM
RE: The undoing - by laltieri0 - 04-19-2016, 07:56 PM
RE: The undoing - by Shrewbe - 04-30-2016, 05:46 AM
RE: The undoing - by RC James - 04-28-2016, 10:03 AM
RE: The undoing - by zorcas - 08-04-2016, 08:06 AM
RE: The undoing - by Shrewbe - 10-05-2016, 03:22 AM
RE: The undoing - by Aidoneus - 04-18-2016, 02:54 AM
RE: The undoing - by homer1950 - 04-18-2016, 11:41 AM
RE: The undoing - by Shrewbe - 04-18-2016, 02:03 PM



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