Question:
A short read...I'd love your opinion and c/c!?
Samantha
2012-07-02 22:08:16 UTC
"Surrounded"

I see darkness approaching.
Anticipate the count for thunder,
while seconds fuse together
becoming fewer and fewer in between.
The crash of thunder
bolts faster than thought.
I stand exposed in the open,
surrounded by trees,
reaching out their deadly limbs
in good intentions.
Don't give me shelter -
I need to be drenched by the rain.
I watched the storm brew
so let it take its course,
for the destruction left behind
is far better
than waiting for it to be let loose.
Five answers:
2012-07-03 07:37:20 UTC
The post describes well the oncoming of a storm, and the expectation of it on behalf of the reader. Some attention should be paid to the tenses: the present tense is substituted by a sudden past tense. I understand that it is a logical jump from the beginning of the storm to the end of it. but still what has happened in between?



You have potential that someone may detect in your scripts. You only need to experiment more. Avoid to write explanations in your pieces and offer self confidence to yourself that will eventually transmit to your work.



I would like you to read some Emily Dickinson poems, and observe how fast and accurately she analyzes and finishes her themes.



Thank you for it!

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Summer Shower

by Emily Dickinson



A drop fell on the apple tree,

Another on the roof;

A half a dozen kissed the eaves,

And made the gables laugh.



A few went out to help the brook,

That went to help the sea.

Myself conjectured, Were they pearls,

What necklaces could be!



The dust replaced in hoisted roads,

The birds jocoser sung;

The sunshine threw his hat away,

The orchards spangles hung.



The breezes brought dejected lutes,

And bathed them in the glee;

The East put out a single flag,

And signed the fete away.



Emily Dickinson

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Little Exercise

by Elizabeth Bishop



For Thomas Edwards Wanning





Think of the storm roaming the sky uneasily

like a dog looking for a place to sleep in,

listen to it growling.



Think how they must look now, the mangrove keys

lying out there unresponsive to the lightning

in dark, coarse-fibred families,



where occasionally a heron may undo his head,

shake up his feathers, make an uncertain comment

when the surrounding water shines.



Think of the boulevard and the little palm trees

all stuck in rows, suddenly revealed

as fistfuls of limp fish-skeletons.



It is raining there. The boulevard

and its broken sidewalks with weeds in every crack,

are relieved to be wet, the sea to be freshened.



Now the storm goes away again in a series

of small, badly lit battle-scenes,

each in "Another part of the field."



Think of someone sleeping in the bottom of a row-boat

tied to a mangrove root or the pile of a bridge;

think of him as uninjured, barely disturbed.



Elizabeth Bishop
sami jay
2012-07-03 19:12:44 UTC
Hi there!



I get the metaphor...I think. "I wanna make my own bed, then lie in it. I did/will suffer, but learn."



This isn't as clean and tight as it could be--a little prosy. Read it out loud. You'll see what I mean.



Just a suggestion:



"I see darkness approaching.

Anticipate thunder,

as seconds fuse

becoming fewer between."



...and onward. Don't use thunder twice if you can avoid it. "The crash and rumble", something like that. I could edit this for you, but YOU wrote your preference. LOL



BTW, Emily is a great poet to study. I know it's not your style, but it is a teaching tool.

One thing I always tell up and comers is, if you want to write good poetry, read good poetry. A lot of it.



Just work it a little. Would love to see it again! Keep at it. ;-)
Bill
2012-07-03 08:02:52 UTC
I don't understand a lot of it. I'd think you'd name it, "Standing against the Storm" or something like that. If you're surrounded by the trees then what to the trees represent? What is it that makes them deadly?



I do see that storms come and go and I think I percieve this as the message, but, I'm not sure.
2012-07-03 05:29:57 UTC
I am not good reader of poem. Moreover it's good effort.
bbmm
2012-07-03 05:12:33 UTC
I'm sorry, but this doesn't cut it. OK I'm joking, it's great, keep it up


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