So what’s new…
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(01-03-2018, 07:37 PM)tectak Wrote:  What is new? This nascent  year, collapsed wave function, old by a day,
is over. The ground  is stale with winter rain and lonely ice;                wanted to read "already" instead of "is" as the first word of this line
like me, slowly melting, going, going,…back to the earth.                          i think you might leave out back to earth, the idea of where this going leads comes in the next line.
If I touch you do you feel the end in me…or am I new each dawn?                  
I like to think we’ll wake reborn; sleeping through the midnight              i don´t know what to do with this statement as it precedes fuming spirits and sweat-wet cheeks.. why want to sleep through it?
bells, the revelry, the fuming spirits, foetid breath and sweat-wet cheeks
that bobbed and jigged in to my space and yours. I only wanted you.           is that double meaning (i merely wanted you vs i wanted you alone) intended?
Our years were few, and more to come than we had used…
but that was destiny on the rocks. Now, we close the curtains, tight-drawn        "destiny on the rocks is a fine phrase", seems to refer to those days that were actually seized. IF you meant it like that you might consider somehow putting in how this drink is watered down.         
and gapless; we lie unseeing, prostrate and grey, yet abhor the seeping light.     "unseeing" and "abhoring light" is put as a contradiction and i´d rather see a causal connection in which you could leave out "unseeing" (as it´s already hinted at with lying face down) and "yet"
We sleep together yet apart…too hot to hold, too close to turn without a touch.        "together yet apart" could be left out i think, i´d want to read something like "we are to close to turn without a touch, too hot to hold"
Meantime, renaissance runs the streets, the bars, the glitzy restaurants;
there’s nothing new outside…or in. Forgive me my ambivalence,                 
but  still I will wish “Happy New Year” to everyone I meet and they,
they who know nothing but hope above happenstance…will wish me the same.


i am a little confused since your poem seems to have two stories i can´t quite connect.. especially the last 4 lines turned almost brusquely turned away from the couple scene (though this "...or in" seems to connect to it).

maybe more line breaks could be used to put emphasis on some of those very nicely phrased lines.
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So what’s new… - by tectak - 01-03-2018, 07:37 PM
RE: So what’s new… - by vagabond - 01-03-2018, 09:49 PM
RE: So what’s new… - by tectak - 01-11-2018, 10:07 PM



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