Dovina
on Pilgrim by richa
7 Mar 2005, 3:41 PM
Snake heaven may have tall golden canes, but virgins for the Pilgrim Puritans? And that last verse with its semicolon and new sentence midway, well, look at the grammar.
this i don't feel was all that good
- 5 -
-lia
interesting - 7 -
-lia
reminds me of a poem I wrote :) Very nice
sad
noess
depres
sion
suic
ide. Got ya. Probably a bit ambitious to do an acrostic in this manner and have it make sense.
absolutely excellent
- 10 -
-megan
i like it - 9 -
-emlyn
seems more like a pimple poem ......
-emlyn
i love this - 10 -
-emlyn
That has to be the longest poem about not being able to write a poem I've ever read.
intersting......
-nessa
i give this a 10 because it is good, but i must ask why you included your age - it doesnt really make any difference at all how old you are - and it just seems to give the impressions that want almost a pity vote, for being younger than the rest of us
-nessa
content is simplistic, form is painful; rhymes read forced, rhythm jounces about without much care for sensibilities--as I read it, at laest.
"it's" -> its (twice)
The last stanza is interesting. I'd run with that more and the abstract less.
Maybe making it more immediate--
"In my mind today
was a tractor trailor on its side
crossing two lanes and a concrete barrier
to catch me at seventy miles per hour;
and no way to move."
7 for the final stanza, though the rest really should bring it down more.
"Bain" ?
"That would be the best I could for" ?
"My logic and fervor are equal are equal" ?
Overall, I'd normally hate this. But it does make a good, dense square. It's sort of an "everyman's" poem--possibly pimple, but it doesn't rhyme or force structure. So... Hmm. 7.
I liked some of the breathless feel to it, but came out more like a minor (yeah, there's no such thing--stil...) asthma attack than anything thoughtforcing.
While somewhat atypical in exactly how it feels forced, it doesn't work for me.
Hmm. Going back in--this could use some rhythm work. The deerflies are out of place. Though I still like most of it. That's certainly a bonus.
"rivers'" -> "river's"
Since you didn't capitalize the beginning of each line, it's a bit odd that you chose to after a semi-colon.
A moderate collection of images, with a point, but they don't gel for me. It's too haphazardly stacatto.
I really like the first two stanzas. s3 doesn't do it for me at all, and s4... hmm. s4 is decent. s3 really doesn't do it for me, though.