Peter Pan Feels Himself for the First Time
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(09-01-2016, 12:17 PM)makeshift Wrote:  Levitation was the training
weight felt in reverse.

I sit In the gray pixie -- any reason why In has a capital i? Also, this enjambment is a bit odd.  Sitting in a grey pixie is just not right at all Smile
dust, its gold long gobbled -- I'd suggest just making this strophe two lines long, with a break after dust.
by the sun.

My green garb lets go
as if I'm a memory -- full stop here? Or maybe semi-colon, without a capital on the next line
It's held too tight.

I feel the breeze, the soil
the blood, and the pulse.
I feel my goblin -- comma?
the mischief, and the moss.

I feel the humidity, the summer,
and the naked heat. I feel my size
the glissando, and my heart beat.

I feel the rise and the rise and the rise
and the fall.
I feel the hunger

and yank a carrot
from the earth,
wondering how anything could be
clean if it came from dirt. -- I love this strophe, particularly the ending
From this I get the idea that the Peter Pan who flies represents innocence, but this is the beginning of his corruption -- when he is real, and solid, and prone to human desires and needs, he is lost.  It's really intriguing and I've pulled out different parts from it at each reading.  

I do feel the "I feels" get a bit too much, though I see the point of them.  Maybe just cut one or two?
It could be worse
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RE: Peter Pan Feels Himself for the First Time - by Leanne - 09-02-2016, 06:07 AM
RE: Peter Pan Feels Himself for the First Time - by just mercedes - 09-02-2016, 06:05 PM



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