Poetry / sepia (Analysis)

wet, wet,wet
every verb
that springs from me
glistening
with rain,memory,
songs unraveled.
of desire that gather
in puddles along the road
are waiting

the streams

like mirrors begging the sky
again and again
their surface broken
in circles
over and over

begging

for
one person
with eyes closed softly
lips ready
only to say yes
to everything.

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MichaelLilith avatar General Stranger

November 01, 2008

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August 02, 2008

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This is dense, but not like fruitcake.

‘Wet’ existing in both verb and adjective states, I am grateful for being offered a choice in how to apply it. This invites my participation, which makes this poem something I experience. Such poems as can be carried like a torch from reader to reader immortalize their writers.

Your style carries meaning equal to your choice of words, insofar as the idea expands concentrically until it brushes banks universal. We all long to see our own desire reflected back to us, from somewhere/one/thing.

This feels like a prayer, and when I consider the predominant element (being water) I feel anointed.

Thank you.

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May 18, 2008

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no I don’t feel like crying a river of blood.  What does this have to do with Sepia?  I wonder if I should look up the term again because I thought it had to do with the color.

Anyway, overall I think it had some interesting imagery, with desire perhaps being imagined as water, as creating emotion that becomes liquid.  In that I think it did very well, if that’s what you were trying for ;)  Maybe I misunderstood.  

Of course I’d take wetness and desire together and then we have a whole new image that is not at all separated.  Wet desire is fitting.  Do you really want someone to say “yes” to everything?

Overall pretty good, very simple, and an easy read with fitting rhyme.

j_wesley avatar General Stranger

May 17, 2008

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this poem is alright, even though it almost has the tone of trying to hard to be a poem.  some good imagery here, so what i mean is that it almost seems to be imagery for its own sake.  also, the spacing seems odd and unnecessary.  i guess that is all to say i don’t get a sense of honesty from this poem (maybe because you use the notes for reviewer to plug some other website, so the whole thing comes off as some sort of commercial).  so i guess the bottom line is that this poem sounds nice, but i’m not terribly impressed by it.

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May 16, 2008

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Heh heh. I cry much blood into elf bucket over this one! I need transfusion after your work! You make wonderful word choices here, I can hardly fault the poem! The line “mirrors begging the sky” sent me into the caves of the imagination for a long hibernation period!

We all need that one person to say yes to us… we can all relate to our words swooning around us and tying us in knots.

This is beautiful work.

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