06-11-2016, 12:53 PM
(06-11-2016, 01:19 AM)Andrias Wrote: Senseless Remorse:I'm trying to make sense of the whore references, and I've been wrong before, but I just don't see enough here for it all to make sense. If you've heard it a lot before there is no use in pasting it into your piece, that's softcore plagiarism.
Don't tell me which door to love more.
Thank the shelf from which I whore myself
Off an awkward cliff hanging by a loose thread
A reckless noose wrapped around my head
it's annoying when people use a whole bunch of fonts and colors and sizes when they don't need to. Maybe the forum is doing it, but all the code makes it hard to critique.
The title is interesting. It's probably this poems main source of redemption. The first stanza starts off with some interesting imagery which just doesn't ever come together. The opening line feels disconnected from the rest of the stanza and with no sense of reason, using the word whore comes off at a cheap shot at shock.
What do we do when the guests have gone
belly up in their own muck?
Castrating their breasts so long, too long
after they're shit out of luck.
for whatever reason, you decide to go all singy songy. Castrating their beasts, I can only guess, is an attempt to be clever but honestly I cannot make sense of of it. I'm sure you have original thoughts, but it's kind of hard to see them past the tired shit out of luck phrase. I am personally ok with questions in poetry, but I don't think the reader is given a reason to care.
Lying in halls too cramped to see,
the end of the tunnel fast approaching me.
Legless spiders frowning on closet stalls,
bodies swallowed by the drain of an empty sea.
three rhymes in a row but why, but what happened with stalls. Rhyming see with sea is almost funny. Most of the phrasing here is nonsensical.
The prophets writing is on the walls, graffiti
sighing, shifting curtains of a crime scene.
The victims all blame each other,
pointing fingers at their own discretion,
while laughing and turning tricks at me!
I might would outline, in basic form, what I want to say. Then edit in the poetry. because right now I'm afraid the message isn't clear.
thanks.

