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? asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 1 decade ago

I invite useful feedback for this poem?

I cannot write a poem

while sitting on this wallet -

no license in its leaves

If only the weight

pinning shut its catcall streetmouth

would silence its burden of tongues -

insistences of identity; banners of won worth

hungry echoes of consumption

soak into buttock, bloodstream, belief

about the day beyond the day,

the day I'm trying to have.

What of diesel in airways, what

of fall insect songs

softly scraping away all

I once knew, silver linings,

scars, smoke?

What of the alien sun

mixing up its project's palette,

fading clothes, tanning hides until

we come out in a uniform wash,

our hangups flushed

our cotton clean

I can't pen any of that

upon a page blazing my unfamiliar eyes shut,

ink blotting oblivion everywhere.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    there is some excellent imagery at work here

    first of all though, some elements which i think weaken the piece by being overused, contrived or banal

    'burden of tongues'

    'silver linings'

    'tanning hides'

    actually the whole section 'fading clothes - cotton clean' is a bit ordinary

    poetry which is trying to make a point is more palatable if the message has to be uncovered by the reader, rather than the reader being clubbed, however gently, with it

    bits i really like 'what of fall insect songs softly scraping away all i once knew'

    and the last three lines - very powerful

    worth refining - you clearly have the ability

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