04-11-2013, 01:36 PM
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That's all I've got really, thanks for posting.
Sorry I can't be much more helpful with this, because I'm not exactly sure what your trying to say. You read a child's palm? Is there more to it than that? Am I missing something? It's quite possible, I'm exausted.
(03-27-2013, 06:28 AM)Crepuscule Wrote: Edit 1.5
Chiromancy
I woke and lay and watched
The nascent sun seeping,
Diluting the screen of dark:
Forms emerging...
Your arms and your hands.
I read your fortune as you slept.
this isn't too bad but were is the sun seeping to? I keep wanting to read it as seeping in, or into the room, or to dilute the screen of darkness. And 'I woke and lay and watched is iambic, when the following line is not. Simply 'I woke and lay watching would match better, meter- wise.
I traced the lines.
Head line, heart line,
Fate and, below the rest,
Concealed by beads and
Woven thread:
Bracelet rascettes, augmented.
Carved from Venus to the Moon.
Epithelialized.
Stretched, still-pink, fading. is this a sentence?
You woke and smiled and
I smiled back.
But I knew your smile was newborn,
Vulnerable. Exposed.
I held you and said nothing.
simple and sweet, but is this an actual newborn or is it a metaphor, because if it were a newborn wouldn't it be Obvious that the newborn wasn't going to say anything?
Original:
I woke and lay and watched
The nascent blushing sun
Penetrate the room.
Nebulous forms emerging,
Your arms and your hands.
I read your fortune as you slept.
I traced the lines.
Head line, heart line,
Fate and, below the rest,
Eclipsed by beads and
Woven thread:
Rascette, augmented.
Etched from Venus to the Moon.
Epithelialized.
Stretched, still-pink, fading.
You woke and smiled and
I smiled back.
But I knew your smile was newborn,
Vulnerable. Exposed.
I held you and said nothing.
That's all I've got really, thanks for posting.
Sorry I can't be much more helpful with this, because I'm not exactly sure what your trying to say. You read a child's palm? Is there more to it than that? Am I missing something? It's quite possible, I'm exausted.

