09-07-2025, 04:57 AM
(09-04-2025, 07:32 AM)brynmawr1 Wrote: I am posting this a little early as it didn't end as I had intended. So, I am sort of wondering if it's working or not.(Without looking at previous crit or response)
Annals from the patio:
Sulfur Cosmos Against a Morning Sky
Myriad suns reaching
upon spindly stalks
for the one we all watch except that we don't - it hurts the eyes
most having already faded,
inevitably, now could this line and the last be condensed and combined?
brown stars falling brown dwarf stars - what I see from this, not a suggestion!
towards tomorrow.
Possible indent here, see below
But the bees-
both honey and bumble, is "both" necessary?
having parsed ever slanting rays nice "inside baseball" poetry - comma at end?
return despite the waning
to the factory floor, humbly, "their" instead of "the?" - also, lead with "humbly" perhaps
each day, they make light
of their labor mining, very nice redirect of "light" here
every flower dwindling, no comma needed
carelessly; that is to say-
what cares do bees have could say "what cares have bees" but archaic so stet
for celestial turnings,
inscrutable in their duties, if you want "inscrutable" - great word - could use "to" in place of "in" here
even immune, perhaps, do you mean something like unaffected or unmoved? "Immune" doesn't quite fit
to an unseasonable chill?
A foreshadow in plain sight Back to the flowers from the bees. Could that be made clearer?
of the late August sun.
Title (second line): Not being a gardener, I had to look up the flower. Beautiful they are.
The above may go a little beyond basic critique. Per your comment above the poem, perhaps the bees could be set off from the flowers by an indent so the return to them at the end is easier to process. Or the last stanza could contain a transition, though - once I figured it out - the snap back is good. Especially if this is intended, as the title suggests, as part of a series.
Non-practicing atheist

