| Draw Strings
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trochee
| As our poems converge | 1 |
our sentences brim with paroles | 2 |
in this grim distance of | 3 |
your cornered room | 4 |
and my paper walls secluded | 5 |
in my own skin | 6 |
I thought of your body | 7 |
as a costume and sashayed | 8 |
as a man of poetry for a while | 9 |
from emptiness to doors of withdrawal, | 10 |
hotel suites and unfrequented tables | 11 |
although afraid your words | 12 |
might surface where i'd laid them aside | 13 |
lurking between empty glasses, | 14 |
smoke rings and ruffled bed sheets. | 15 |
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7 Aug 08 |
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nice alliterteration and internal rhymes. Did you mean 'awhile' on line 9?
— SilverGirl
i think that you're drawing out your vowels as you hear this and that it's a regional poetry from the region of t.v., and that it's hard to make this work as a poem. the words stretch a little, then stop for me, where it's perhaps that you hear the word's internals oozing sound, and i only can see a stop sign? for instance, how long am i to hold the 'i' in line six's 'skin'? if i hold it long, it completes the stretching of 'paroles', if you're pronouncing 'paroles' as english and not french, and i'm not sure what your 'paroles' actually are -- freedom from jail or french poems. there's a nice rhythm to this, and it's a nice collection of sounds, but i'm just not sure that i'm hearing them correctly.
— joey
seeing that this is yours, t., i'm hearing it a little differently, this time, and hearing 'paroles' as 'pa-roll'... is that close? it'd make the other sounds fall into place for me.
— joey
nice writing. the format would seem questionable because of its tight form, but you explain it so well with the first line. the poem does seem to converge. that was a good technique.
also, the words themselves are carefully chosen.
— listen
Nice flow, very well written. Good job!
— meganwhitney
Jeepers! I meant "alliteration."
— SilverGirl
thnks Silver girl. i think 'a while' and 'awhile' is one and the same thing.
close enough joey. i would hear it as "pu'rowl".
Ola! thanks listen.
thank you miss whitney or is it mrs?
hello SG, wheres the alliteration?
— trochee
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