09-03-2022, 03:04 AM
(03-27-2022, 11:46 AM)Semicircle Wrote: Translucent handHi Sc,
window:
flowers from moondust--
nebulous terror--
shadows miles away
walk inside
and never leave
Personally I think you had a nice poem going with the original that just needed some rearranging as the images are great. Made some suggestions below to work with.
Hope you find them useful.
steve
I had a translucent hand, might be good to introduce idea of dream state of some kind in first line more explicitly
that revealed truths link "truths" to the burning (better descriptor than eternal as mark suggested) by moving to end of stanza
when I looked through it; implied by window
a window
to another world
where flowers sprouted from need more specific imagery around "flower" and "moon dust"
moon dust
and burned eternally.
But then I woke up, the ideas here are good just need to link tonally to the first stanza, ie also have a surreal quality to the language.
and my hand was opaque.

