07-30-2015, 08:55 AM
(07-23-2015, 12:18 PM)i.might.be.a.bit.sad Wrote: {thanks to billy, I came to my senses and deleted a line and an endnote. Thanks!}I would take out the "whatever". It ruins the opportunity for the reader to expand upon that line. Before, when you interrupted your thought with an ellipsis followed by "What?", then proceeded to question your own interpretation of the wool, that gave the reader the opportunity to make their own interpretation of what the wool was like. I think the poem would have more of an impact if you used this approach in the line containing the second ellipsis. But I'm a novice, heed my advice with caution; this is just how I interpret the poem.
My head is full of cotton.
Not light and fluffy, with blue sky shining through,
or clumped and stained red, from the labor it took to harvest.
No.
It is…
What?
Wet maybe? Gray and musty and
smelling of wet sheep.
What does wet cotton smell like?
Maybe my head is full of wool.
There are no hidden pieces of wisdom or poetic…whatever.
I just woke up,
and I am tired.
Free verse poetry and jazz are like brother and sister.

