04-16-2022, 01:56 PM
(04-12-2022, 01:17 PM)Semicircle Wrote: You can tread on usI will just provide some overall comments. I think the opening stanza is too abstract. There is a lot of us our you your. I can’t make out who us is or what is in it for the subject to listen to us or why us wants the subject to die while telling him to settle the ocean and watch his step. Why are we plural, significant to the poem.
in our abundance.
some aren't stable-
watch your step now.
We coagulate underfoot,
falling away without sound
back into a struggling ocean
that clamors to support your feet.
You're running full sprint, trying to escape
ascending higher and higher, cresting the peek of your wave
reduced to a needle piercing clouds.
We understand, it's hard up there
and there is no escaping us,
so come down please.
Settle the ocean,
find peace,
die.
Surely the subject is the ocean to some extent, at least his emotions. And the imagery of death stilling an ocean of emotion is interesting, but it needs to be culled from the pronouns.

