10-03-2013, 11:34 AM
(09-25-2013, 06:39 AM)Nick Wrote: Pale, smooth, unblemished skinDue to the poem's loose structure I'd recommend replacing every comma with a line break; it will flow better this way, because unless your poem has longer lines and more consistent pauses punctuation just slows it down to a list of bullet points. IMHO, anyway.
Thin, straight nose line
Smiling, cupids bow lips "Cupid's"
Hair so blonde it was almost white Good descriptor.
Blue eyes, not piercing, happy, kind
She invited me to her house
There was a problem with the
cupboard hinge
'Could I fix it?'
I didn't know how
Told her and her mother
'I was sorry'
Went home,
never went back
Always felt
I left something there
Intangible, irretrievable
We were 14 that year
Now, 60 days from 56th birthday,
it seems it happened
last week
Always act from the heart, pardner
What you do
never
leaves you
I like the seeming innocuousness of this poem; it's so spare and about such a trivial incident that you think, at first, that it's about nothing, but then its insight dawns. That's quite a clever way to write a piece. Thank you for the read
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe

