The Coming of the Magi
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(12-05-2011, 10:29 AM)Leanne Wrote:  Oh mother, where’s your little girl now? This line has an oddly menacing tone to it. I don't know if that was intentional.
golden brown beneath an incandescent "Golden" should be capitalised.
sun, shiver swung from electric noose as God I like the "electric noose."
laughs like the terrier next door, Excellent simile. ratcatcher yelps
and hard biscuit yawns. Is the "hard biscuit" a metaphor for something?

Christmas carries sex upon its breath, sackfuls of
naughty whisper ice is nicest when it’s As you're talking about "sackfuls" of ice should "it's" be "they're"?
free. Note the catch and kiss of missed and may Dashes between "may," "be" and "shush" might help the syntax.
be shush, there’s good, let’s spoon it up.

Mother waits with empty boxes
every year, Pandora’s treasure passing by on ragged
wings -- those she wore that day when promise
wandered westward, folio in hand. I like this image. It makes "promise" seem like a sharp-suited businessman, an image which carries its own implications. Now the tree
stands bare, shedding needles on the floor. If the tree's bare how can it still be shedding needles?

Can you hear the bells? All is well.
Celebrate. The world rejoices in glorious rebuke.
What is one star, when a galaxy is alight? Great final line.
All feedback JMHO of course. Thanks for the read, Leanne.

"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe
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The Coming of the Magi - by Leanne - 12-05-2011, 10:29 AM
RE: The Coming of the Magi - by grannyjill - 12-06-2011, 06:03 PM
RE: The Coming of the Magi - by heslopian - 12-07-2011, 04:12 AM
RE: The Coming of the Magi - by Leanne - 12-07-2011, 04:38 AM
RE: The Coming of the Magi - by grannyjill - 12-07-2011, 05:45 AM
RE: The Coming of the Magi - by Leanne - 12-07-2011, 08:41 AM
RE: The Coming of the Magi - by addy - 12-07-2011, 09:43 AM
RE: The Coming of the Magi - by Leanne - 12-07-2011, 02:58 PM
RE: The Coming of the Magi - by Philatone - 12-15-2011, 07:40 AM
RE: The Coming of the Magi - by Aish - 12-15-2011, 12:21 PM
RE: The Coming of the Magi - by rbl - 12-16-2011, 12:06 PM
RE: The Coming of the Magi - by Erthona - 12-16-2011, 02:48 PM
RE: The Coming of the Magi - by Leanne - 12-19-2011, 03:38 PM
RE: The Coming of the Magi - by Leanne - 12-28-2011, 12:27 PM
RE: The Coming of the Magi - by Philatone - 12-28-2011, 01:01 PM



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