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The Ocean Prefers A Sunset (Free verse) by wilco

On the horizon, dancing waltzes with the end of the Earth, she casts the shadows of crumbling caryatids on the listless sand. I'm standing on the shoreline and hoping for an evening rain to fall. The chemicals bouncing through my mind, twist her, turn her until she becomes the entire world. She's almost gone now; and with her death, the birth of night. So, I wait for her sister to cast her warming smile; and although not as beautiful, warm my bones as I yearn to see her again.

god'swife 11-Jun-04/8:20 PM
Much. some redundances you really should keep an eye out for:

'dancing waltzes...' the waltzes suggests dancing already, you might consider leaving the dancing out, helps with the flow of the image.

'and hoping for an evening rain to fall' Rain falls, everybody knows that so again, you could make things prettier by leaving '...to fall' out of it. Small little things make all the difference. Like Nanas embroidered napkin tucked under the silverware, or cleaning the mirror in the bathroom.

I love the second stanza, the relationship between birth and death. Try not to use 'her' twice in one sentence if you can help it. the her in the final sentence is uncertain, which girl are you longing for? That last sentence could use 'She' at the beginning.

Real good. Nice job.




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