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John asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 4 years ago

Could somebody please critique this poem?

"Artist"

To make imaginings real is not

so difficult - this painting that I've got

half-done grew from my first reflecting that

a meld of hilly landscapes with the flat

would change straight lines of depth that merge,

toward point of vanishing converge -

they, depth-ward into distance shrinking,

diminuating sign-waves now become

A place as uniform as plane is this,

though hilly as one upland drizzles kiss,

but morning scene, sea-surge-like suburb-scape

from eaves-height viewed through eyes tear-eddies drape.

Impose, on third-D sign-waves growing small,

elliptic ripples, major axes all

contracting, snaking down horizon rays:

The anonym is blue some summer days.

Perhaps that background city's made him sad,

a tedium he grows less and less glad

to go to weekday mornings in that town,

some parabolic tower's looming frown.

Jack Mellender

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  • 4 years ago
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    A good experienced to have my thinking stretched some.

    At one point I was reminded of the elliptical journeying through Haydn`s `Creation.

    This is a 10/ 10 both due to holding the theme without lapsing

    and to holding to the line-break rhyming verse.

    My sole thought of perhaps improving is

    to place a comma after the word, `looming` in your final line

    (or not! - as it may not be aligned with the overall tone you desire to convey).

    This is music (cadence , harmonics), art and poem...I am privileged to have this to read

    its integration of levels from abstracted descriptives, to the mundane.

    An oeuvre.

  • 4 years ago

    It is good and I only see one minor error.

    plane should be plain?

  • 4 years ago

    the photo is demanding. the poem is over my head. I guess your on the verge of excellence. But what do I know????

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