Sometimes
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(07-04-2019, 04:34 PM)churinga Wrote:  
Sometimes the world is just shapes,  I think the first line needs to be stronger/smoother - it stumbles a bit which is especially distracting when the reader is just trying to get into the poem.
dark and light 
or colours on a palette knife.
Sometimes the world is a screen, different types of screen; wasn’t obvious until several lines down. Another small distraction from the initial read. Perhaps ‘Sometimes the world’s a video screen’ -  
a myriad of players 
speaking in foreign languages 
but that's not the problem.
There's smiles. are not is.  I figure you’re doing it for voice, but it grates lol
And eyes are either golden with light
or cold as the blue.

There's music in the hubbub of a bar
or by a bus stop seat. I know you’re alliterating, but it feels awkward here, to me.  Near...
TV shows rarely get it right.
The way we think between sentences,
how the mind is slow. Then fast.
[size][font] These lines don’t add meaning to me - kind of the opposite[/font][/size]

Sometimes there's a fragrance
you walk past in the night.
Sometimes you wake and remember
a dream that's recurring. recurring dream
Now - it fits like a crossword:
the faces, the building, 
the message that's given.


just a few thoughts....
There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery. TS Eliot
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Messages In This Thread
Sometimes - by churinga - 07-04-2019, 04:34 PM
RE: Sometimes - by churinga - 07-04-2019, 08:32 PM
RE: Sometimes - by Knot - 07-04-2019, 09:06 PM
RE: Sometimes - by churinga - 07-05-2019, 04:02 AM
RE: Sometimes - by Oden Prufrock - 07-05-2019, 04:50 PM
RE: Sometimes - by churinga - 07-06-2019, 01:21 PM
RE: Sometimes - by Seraphim - 07-06-2019, 04:24 PM
RE: Sometimes - by churinga - 07-06-2019, 09:56 PM
RE: Sometimes - by Seraphim - 07-07-2019, 11:13 AM
RE: Sometimes - by churinga - 07-07-2019, 04:22 PM



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