10-31-2020, 12:49 AM
(10-30-2020, 08:42 PM)ambrosial revelation Wrote:Thank you for the feedback! I edited my poem and used your suggestions. The drawbridge in this poem, though, I'm picturing a bridge less like a medieval drawbridge and more like the Tower Bridge in London.(10-30-2020, 07:27 AM)MelaniaStarHans Wrote: My mindHi M, neat little poem here, I'm unsure about the line breaks but I see how they can give a juddering effect like a drawbridge going up and down. Also don't need to capitalise every line, just the beginning of sentences.
IsA drawbridge. --- Good opening, I like the metaphorICan draw people --- use a different word to 'draw' to avoid the repetitionIn, --- don't need comma hereAnd giveThemThe promiseTo passBy, --- don't need 'by'But IAlways put upA wallWhenThey getToo close. --- I like the ending, but if you were to continue the drawbridge castle analogy then perhaps you would shut the gate or portcullis
Cheers for the read,
Mark
(10-30-2020, 05:24 PM)busker Wrote: I like the development towards a payoff in the final two lines. It works.Thank you for the feedback!
Could do with fewer line breaks perhaps
(10-30-2020, 06:34 PM)Kingsausage1778 Wrote: I like the line breaks, gives it a mechanical romance.Thank you for the feedback!
"I have no one to talk to about the shit that goes on inside my head." -- M

