07-17-2016, 01:05 AM
Overall I like it, but I'm always a fan of a good drunk poem. A few comments
(07-15-2016, 06:59 PM)Achebe Wrote: Impossible angelthanks for sharing.
Beer and cigarettes
and you, your languid locks, good meter and sonics, but the image is strange to me; the speaker seems passionate about the subject, and the subject is fleeting and 'runs' later in the poem. is languid the best word for hair?
are always in my world of drunken walks
through Barbican and Bishopsgate, interesting place names
in the moonbeam shallows
of walls spattered with poetry. I like 'moonbeam shallows.' it fits with the 'sea' below, but this lines reads as 'shallows of walls' what is the shallow of a wall?
Thursday nights your longing is a sea is it 'your longing' or the speaker's longing?
crossing through hours of drunkenness.
Mindful glances in the mermaid shadows reminds me of Prufrock
turn not to me. here too
Impossible angel interesting pairing of words, good rhythm too, but do these words fit the sea/mermaid ideas?
that runs not to me. do angels run?
But runs to the deep sea's emptiness her the sea changes again; above the longing is a sea; here the subject runs to the sea; maybe work on the consistency of the metaphor?
in the white frothed wave that follows
the moon's pale lamp of loneliness i like the repetition of moon here
that burns not for me. it seems the lamp of loneliness would burn for this speaker
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