Too Restless to Sleep
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I like this! and know the feeling all too well. A couple comments below that may be helpful.

(04-21-2016, 12:42 AM)Todd Wrote:  Outside the hum and buzz
close crowded clicking
of katydids  -- Love this beginning.
 
Under the dry
light of the forest
flowers are motionless
unmoving
like stationary pinwheels -- and this is even better. I was going to object to pairing "motionless" and "unmoving" but I see how it works after all. "dry light" is gorgeous.
 
The wild trees
bare of leaves
seem like insomniacs -- Yes, and here I want a tiny bit more acknowledgement that this is an insomniac speaking -- maybe "fellow insomniacs" or the like?
 
It is near dawn
I stand in the dirt
shifting from foot to foot -- really love this depiction
knowing the end
will be nothing like this -- and I am not sure about this. But it grows on me. At first though I thought, how come we are talking about "the end"? all of a sudden (aside from it being the end of the poem but I don't think you meant that.) It grows on me though as an appropriately mysterious place to conclude the piece.
Really like this! Smile
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Too Restless to Sleep - by Todd - 04-21-2016, 12:42 AM
RE: Too Restless to Sleep - by bedeep - 04-21-2016, 08:44 AM
RE: Too Restless to Sleep - by just mercedes - 04-21-2016, 08:48 AM
RE: Too Restless to Sleep - by lr3ke100 - 04-21-2016, 08:53 AM
RE: Too Restless to Sleep - by Achebe - 04-21-2016, 09:45 AM
RE: Too Restless to Sleep - by Todd - 04-21-2016, 02:08 PM
RE: Too Restless to Sleep - by Keith - 04-22-2016, 05:43 AM
RE: Too Restless to Sleep - by Todd - 04-22-2016, 05:52 AM
RE: Too Restless to Sleep - by shaan - 04-23-2016, 02:29 AM
RE: Too Restless to Sleep - by Todd - 04-23-2016, 06:13 AM



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