Harbour
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Billy,
I rather like the metaphors and similes within this poem along with the unique rhyme scheme. I am not sure if you purposely used shipwracked, or whether its use is more common where you are from.
Your two stanzas are close to metric uniformity and my natural inclination is deleting the “an” from S1L5 along with, “like” in S2L2, to further even them out. You have some very good word choices in this and I would hope that any suggestions I make would not detract. Here is how I see the lengths of your lines:

5 Our towering monuments; penile erections
6 raised, of stone and glass, all sails of imperfections
3 quartering shipwracked crews.
6 Fo'c'sled, faceless, hid behind a faux pas cliff face.
7 Galley slaves that fear, scutter at an urgent pace,
3 wear out their souls and shoes.

6 Black winds breed banshees and blow between the pain;
6 lash through holes of better seas to come, like hard rain
3 and heavy cannon shot.
6 Pirates of a different kind lay waste and squall,
6 on ship and ship alike, across the inner sprawl
3 where men as men are not.

Thanks for a very good read,

Sid
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Messages In This Thread
Harbour - by billy - 09-13-2011, 07:18 PM
RE: Harbour - by Todd - 09-14-2011, 06:12 AM
RE: Harbour - by billy - 09-14-2011, 07:38 AM
RE: Harbour - by Wildcard - 09-14-2011, 10:34 AM
RE: Harbour - by billy - 09-14-2011, 12:36 PM
RE: Harbour - by ICSoria - 09-16-2011, 02:11 PM
RE: Harbour - by billy - 09-16-2011, 04:12 PM



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