04-20-2014, 08:40 AM
(04-20-2014, 08:03 AM)Am I A Poet? Wrote: Mesmerised by the infinite spirals of humanity:Hi 'Am I A Poet?', I can see the point that you are trying to put across in your piece here and there is a good short poem waiting to be found.
Marching forward
Yet remaining constant,
Or regressing.
The hallucination of Progress.
Firstly I would ask about the title and the relevance that it has to the poem, I don't seem to be able to make the connection. I am a bit bemused by the first line which doesn't really seem to make any sense, what are "the infinite spirals of humanity"? You could actually just have this line as Humanity(?). The next three lines are fine and straight forward.
In the last line "hallucination" doesn't work for me, you can't hallucinate progress, the word "illusion" would work better or perhaps even just the word Progress with a question mark.
I do think that you can make a good short poem out of this, although I do think it would be better to post it in the short poetry forum.
I hope that some of my comments may be of some use to you. Thanks for the read.
Mark
wae aye man ye radgie
