Like Sunlight
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(12-17-2014, 04:36 AM)BW BRINE Wrote:  Like sunlight, she dances upon the tiled floors You positively do not need "the" in a distinguishing role. Does she not dance on other floor surfaces? There ARE other floors. You say so by using "the tiled floorS".If you want to preserve meter there are opportunities..."Like sunbeams she dances on shining tiled floors"...your poem.
Her silvery shoes twinkle from the right angle I do not know why you obsessively cling to this awkward and obscure expression "..from the right angle" It has too much perpendicularity to be meaningful. Do you mean 90 degrees or just "correct"?..."Her silver shoes twinkle, like prisms in light"....or something.
Her dress ripples in tempoed twirls You can argue all day about the dubious jargon of the "tempoed" word but whatever you have decided it means it cannot modify "swirls". Tempo indicates a time-base, swirls indicates a motion. It is an angry banana..."Her dress swirls and ripples, as tempo unites". No more.

Like raindrops, her grass-green eyes form trickling pools No. No. A cIiche too far. As for the simile it is just bizarre. You need to reconsider how someone looks with trickling pools (whatever can that mean) for eyes.I KNOW what you are trying to say but L2 of this stanza should be L1 so that we know about the tears....but you loose me with smiling cheeks, bending at right angles, crying whilst dancing. It is a muddle of extraordinary proportions...almost skilfully manufactured to perplex.
Her smiling cheeks bend tears at the right angle
Her teeth reflect in glittering jewels Enough already. Where are these jewels that reflect teeth? You said it. READ what you write OUT LOUD to your pizza delivery boy and see if he can fathom it. I cannot

Like wind, she seems to speak the coldest at dawn
Her shifting judgement sways the leaves
Her words rise quickly and she is gone Nicely observed but just too late. Overall, you would help yourself by using some, any, disciplined punctuation...if just to clarify your intent. The little dot after "intent" is a "period".  Smile

Hi bw.
A eulogy. All the CORRECT words but not necessarily in the RIGHT order. It does not say much but takes a while about it. The last stanza, though simple (nothing wrong with that) expresses a neat thought (or two). The rest is a little self indulgent at best...uncontrolled at worst. If you do not want rhyme, meter or clarity you have a winner here....but I just cannot get the poetry "hit". AIO,
Best,
tectak

-BW BRINE
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Messages In This Thread
Like Sunlight - by BW BRINE - 12-17-2014, 04:36 AM
RE: Like Sunlight - by Erthona - 12-17-2014, 06:59 AM
RE: Like Sunlight - by BW BRINE - 12-18-2014, 01:49 PM
RE: Like Sunlight - by Leah S. - 12-21-2014, 03:59 AM
RE: Like Sunlight - by BW BRINE - 02-10-2015, 09:54 AM
RE: Like Sunlight - by just mercedes - 02-10-2015, 10:21 AM
RE: Like Sunlight - by tectak - 02-11-2015, 02:15 AM
RE: Like Sunlight - by Leah S. - 02-12-2015, 06:52 AM



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