07-08-2012, 05:38 AM
Thanks, Phaedra. I decided to give the poem its original title back and stop trying to be clever. Double Jeopardy - in legal terms I think it means that you can't be tried for the same offence twice. But the poem is meant to be about a relationship gone stale in which one partner puts the other through the mill repeatedly for past offences. The averted cheek has been struck, I'm trying for a heated resentment.
The poem sprang from an exercise I give myself some times - to try and convert, condense a passage or chapter from a novel into a poem!
Best Wishes, Ray
The poem sprang from an exercise I give myself some times - to try and convert, condense a passage or chapter from a novel into a poem!
Best Wishes, Ray
Before criticising a person, try walking a mile in their shoes. Then when you do criticise them, you're a mile away.....and you have their shoes.