08-22-2025, 10:51 PM
edit;
You’re old, almost
as old as I am now–
Surely you’ve walked
into a second or third room
and wondered why
you came here–
then found a glass
part-full of wine
in your hand
that you’d thought was empty.
But there it is
and here you are,
my dear.
Good critique for a short work! The typo is fixed (I'm the world's worst proofreader... of my own stuff). And changing "half" to the less specific also avoids a difficult-to-pronounce f-to-f in that line (my lips move when I read - sometimes sounds emerge!)
Thanks!
You’re old, almost
as old as I am now–
Surely you’ve walked
into a second or third room
and wondered why
you came here–
then found a glass
part-full of wine
in your hand
that you’d thought was empty.
But there it is
and here you are,
my dear.
Good critique for a short work! The typo is fixed (I'm the world's worst proofreader... of my own stuff). And changing "half" to the less specific also avoids a difficult-to-pronounce f-to-f in that line (my lips move when I read - sometimes sounds emerge!)
Thanks!
Non-practicing atheist

