half.italian
on Lustlets of longing by bharat shekhar
5 May 2007, 11:18 AM
Delicious.
Can't make the connection, but I like the thought.
crying profusely for your loss
Beatles
Brothers
making music that
ignites souls
Teaching
us of love, peace, and
Drugs.
Please don't vote for yourself, especially with a 10; and do use apostrophes where grammar demands, not just where you want them. I'd give a 7, but 4 instead, to balance your 10.
"awaker" doesn't cut it. And the last two verses wander off somewhere. The first 4 verses are nice.
Clean up the first sentence. Quit a whimsy, dream or trip.
I didn't like the comparison in line 6, but after seeing how you developed it I changed my mind. This is very well written, but I'm not sure what you mean by "My tone is altered by such poems." How is your tone altered, and why? It just doesn't seem to fit right there. Anyways, great job!
It's cute! I like.
A strangely familiar feeling about the now-ended cold war with Russia. Or is it over?
Look at my recent poem in your name.
Poems are made by us
One of us shall see
What we paint
Upon the blank page
That depicts what shall be unseen
In the heart of meanings
When the heart is pathless
When no poem shall go uncommented
Where poems and oceans cross each other
In the horizon of poets' dreams
I think you mean evil octopodes. And evil is kind of overwrought for any poem let alone one ostensibly about shopping trolleys. I think the place the trolley is dumped possibly needs elucidating to give the poem place. Other than that the bones of a decent poem here. Have an -8-.
I like 'We might have tailgated but I thought that meant something like skitching'.
This is rather a peculiar vilanelle which I guess is ok. The refrain 'I do not love you if I say I do.' becomes in the body of the poem 'I do not love you' (no contingent) and 'If I say I do,' (it is because) which is totally different. As I said very peculiar which is I guess interesting.
I don't know what the hell is going on here. The stuffy beige of what? How are windows unbuttoned, are they windows or shirts? How are voices sweaty? We still don't know where we are when you talk about big breaths bottles, lined up like a squadron. If the poem had a better sense of place the reader may be more inclined to explore these metaphors but as they stand they just look like gibberish. 'Their wrists are taut' the 'their' is meant to be about the students (I hope) but the students have not been mentioned since stanza 1. Verses 3-5 are a perfectly lucid poem in themself but verses 1+2 fail to impart much meaning.
Why 'passed'.
Good poem. Factually inaccurate however because cats do not have souls.
How very intriguing.