07-23-2019, 10:59 AM
(07-17-2019, 09:44 AM)nozaki Wrote: the stars struggle against the clouds tonight andThe cliché quality of the images used depersonalise it and reduce its emotional impact on the audience. I feel subtlety and third person would make the heartbreak you're going for a lot stronger, and the subject matter itself seems kind of bland and superficial. Although, your use of language is okay and even though they're common images you use them to build this narrative of vapidness and loss. I think this is a great first draft but there are glaring flaws like the syntax such as "that has come", and the structure of the poem seems to lack a clear direction. The finishing like is good but dust in the wind is terribly cliché. Try to consider your images with more care, possibly doing more research. You could try walking around and seeing what in the world reflects your troubles or look at intertextual symbols.
awkwardly,
we stare at anything but each other.
--the end wasn't supposed to be so undefined
two almost-adults grasping for adult words,
because the puff puff pass that has come
to be our language can no longer describe
"the end of an era," you finally say.
--in a different age, in a different life
--if you weren't so laissez faire
--and i wasn't so complicated
i might've needed you to be happy
but i don't need to be happy.
we share no tears, no hugs, no goodbyes.
only a twisted thick acknowledgment
of the history that has come to pass through us.

