07-01-2015, 11:04 PM
(06-27-2015, 07:01 AM)rayheinrich Wrote:Hi ray,
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< like leaves >
for Pat
a picnic blanket
in the park
the leaves
the sun glows through them
as we're lying here
i listen to you
read the poems you love
you tell me of your day
your breath
the casual warmth
of your light touch
these simple things
so quickly gone
and here we are
the chill of fall
where all is quiet except our hearts
we watch the leaves content to fall
through shadows of late afternoon
and we pretend they are not us
but on this blanket
in this park
our love
it draws us up
it weaves us tight
and we forget the time
we'll have no summers left
no winters waiting for us
when our wishes, promises
will lie like leaves
turned lazily from breeze to breeze
our life
our love
how quickly gone
how slight our light breath moves
across these leaves
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you may think that you are bear-bating me with this....but it won't work, I tell you. It won't work.
OK...I love the enjambments. They are reasonable, sensible, predictive, sensitive...I could go on. The sans capitals force me to make decisions based solely on the clues and consequences in the text....and it works beautifully. Perhaps a comma after "promises" but there are alternative, and very slightly different, meanings...nuances even...made by any such changes.
Overviewing work like this is a minefield of good intentions. I enjoy the certainty in whisfulness so perfectly portrayed. It is rare to be able to make such certain judgement on the inner machinations of someone else's mind...there is a risk that by eulogy you think that I am condoning the lack of common practice, and BOOM, up it all goes in an explosion of acceptability. You may try to write like this often. It often fails. This one doesn't and that makes it rare.
Very best.
tectak

