Or Else
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Hi 71degrees, few comments

(11-10-2017, 05:43 AM)71degrees Wrote:  If living were only a word
rather than a reason, every Isn't everyone one word? This makes the enjambment here sorta weak in my opinion, and the payoff at the last line of the stanza doesn't do much for me as explained at the line. 
one would simply throw it
away I don't see the need for the isolation of away here.

Cupid breathed on me
once and I was blown glass, I like these first two lines. Maybe a colon or em dash at the end.
pulled down-blue-see through do you mean "pulled down, blue, see-through," ?
and hand shaped

If there really is a God
and one day he calls me,
I will simply walk around
for a while and hope 
he moves on to someone
or else

If there really is a God           
and one day he calls me,
I'll walk around for a while 
and hope he moves on 
to someone different,
or else

I hope I'm not over-stepping you as the poet but I'd rephrase the stanza in this way to accommodate "different" in the fifth line. I just felt like an "else" or a synonym to that was necessary after "someone". Improve upon this change as you will or not, entirely up to you. Final question: is there a reason for the absence of periods? I'm thinking it was intentional but I can't figure out why.
good luck with it, Alex
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Messages In This Thread
Or Else - by 71degrees - 11-10-2017, 05:43 AM
RE: Or Else - by alonso ramoran - 11-10-2017, 08:10 AM
RE: Or Else - by 71degrees - 11-12-2017, 01:41 PM
RE: Or Else - by Achebe - 11-10-2017, 08:16 AM
RE: Or Else - by QDeathstar - 11-10-2017, 08:44 AM
RE: Or Else - by Knot - 11-10-2017, 11:57 PM
RE: Or Else - by nibbed - 11-11-2017, 06:18 AM
RE: Or Else - by vagabond - 11-12-2017, 10:27 PM
RE: Or Else - by QDeathstar - 11-12-2017, 10:33 PM



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