02-20-2018, 07:30 AM
Hello, and welcome. Not sure if this is really ready for this forum. But...
(02-20-2018, 06:20 AM)lauraelizdok Wrote: I watch the sun in passingI'm going to stop there. For me the poem is more interested in sounding like a poem than expressing an idea. I know you started with an idea. Go back to it and don't worry so much how it sounds.
to it's hand the green does grow;
through it's awesome powers
the gift of life does flow. Would you ever use "does" in this way in actual speech? Twice even?
I watch in apprehension
this golden deity at work
when I see the gift of life withdrawn
turning fertile oasis
into baron(spelling) desert.
And I can't help but wonder
if it is so written by design
in nature's contract of power
a sub-clause of decline. Imagine this verse on all one line. A punctuation nightmare. You are asking your line breaks to do all the work.
I see the sun bring Eden
I see the rain guard the fruit;
I see two forces restraining
from what in-silo each can do. I'm sure you've conceived of something clever here. But it doesn't translate.
And if such be Her intention
A just balance in life's span
Is it to any wonder
what will result of man? Sounds important, but I don't know what is being asked.
I see it all around me
In sad streams, and sinking ice slopes too...
the sins we have created,
the lamenting we must do.
But nature wrote long before us
a steady and condign plan
and in that,
perhaps she always knew:
man will destroy man.
