A New Psalm
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I like it, it feels sudden and expansive. Some nits:

Quote:One day you notice
your favorite shirt
is hot red, not blue I agree, it only makes sense if it were pink here

the outside porch lights
are shaped like pineapples

you wonder if today is the day
for that epiphany you’ve been
waiting for all your life This stanza could be better. Three lines are a lot, and none of them are adding any images, in a poem that pretty much lives off them. But “epiphany” is good.

Maybe your lover is now Irish, Really like this line. She must've been just as surprised to have her nationality suddenly transmuted.
a lassie who leans her head
slightly to the right when she Yes, this and the above line could have better line breaks.
kisses you. Someone knocks;

you eagerly open the door;
a lilied field stretches beyond
everything you will ever know No complaints out of me. Very nice.

All I could really suggest is more writing, and even more florid images.
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A New Psalm - by 71degrees - 12-01-2013, 09:24 AM
RE: A New Psalm - by ChristopherSea - 12-02-2013, 02:44 AM
RE: A New Psalm - by 71degrees - 12-08-2013, 01:28 AM
RE: A New Psalm - by hankabadpoet - 12-07-2013, 11:34 AM
RE: A New Psalm - by PoetryAndPhysics - 12-08-2013, 07:04 AM
RE: A New Psalm - by trailertrash - 12-09-2013, 08:00 AM
RE: A New Psalm - by 71degrees - 12-09-2013, 11:32 PM



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