09-10-2016, 11:48 PM
(09-05-2016, 07:26 AM)Brownlie Wrote: Just before-Overall I loved your poem, it's a few tiny tweaks away from being bloody fantastic. Captures a nice autumn mindset + who doesn't like a balloon man.
Black Friday when paper buckle hats
and rotting pumpkins
line the curb
The wind-driven balloonMan writhes with glee
and it’s as-if-he-took Abilify with
all-the-would-be poets Saying 'poets' here seems a bit too specific, maybe just 'artists' ? not sure.
zonked on propylhexedrine and A reader naturally slows down to read the name, so why not mirror the previous lines and have 'pro-pyl-hexe-drine' , could work?
akathisia’s the final diagnosis and it's-
fall
when everybody
hears the chalk-board scraping, metaphor-of-reaping nails of death
in chill-
toward
winter turbulence
(But all the seasons soon will die
so it’s spring.)
JoeWinstonandRaul are honking on the 605 This and the end of the previous stanza are where the line breaks get a bit too much for me
They’re racing home to meet unceasing gift-filled drones Not sure about word choice 'drones'
and it’s after Turkey Day the bar code scanners don’t need clerks 'Turkey day' is a nice way to put it
and the organ-
less
spasmodic balloonMan
feels no lack or pain but smiling with a palpitating chest
beckons
them
to buy
used Fords These line breaks at the end are lovely; you really tumble into the inevitable end [or Fall into it (groan)]