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In my shed I keep a man
by the name of Isaac. His nails are blue,
his eyelids black from a game we played.
He’s kneeling in a cobwebbed corner, teeth
sinking through his lip, a grin
tweaking at his cheeks, still red with rum.
On his chin is balanced a golden moth.
He’s staring through her beating wings at
some other, sweetly-coloured world.
At the window taps a haze
of spring in thick blossom, and a carnival
of birds at five AM. I don’t always come
out this early. But his moans pulled at my skirt,
and charmed my feet to creep into indigo,
and here I am. He doesn’t turn to me,
or blink at the stuttering dawn.
At his lips the moth is still.
A breath takes her to the concrete, upside-down,
his Juliet. My ear is at his chest,
and in the sun our dreams slip off.
He wound me up to the moon last night, and now,
his clock has stopped.
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Comments
Good stuff
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Daedalus
Thought I might mention that the name Isaac is derived from a Hebrew name (Yitzchaq) which means 'he laughs' - Good choice of name
I love your use of color throguh the piece. The way you have breaks where you don't mention it, then use a specific shade or hue to describe somthing is very effective, as if color was bursting though the seams despite one's best attempts to contain it.
The moth was a great metaphor, drawing on the contrasting connotations of butterflies and moths. Me likes.
"My ear is at his chest,
and in the sun our dreams slip off."
Great lines, warmth and cuddliness in the position of the persona and of course, the sun. Balanced well with a haunting strangeness enforced by the second line here as you can switch the sun and the dreams, possibly making it sound closer to a cliche etc.
Obvious use of self-sacrifice in the last line, beautifully sad
The sadness and the happiness just fit so well together, as if expected. Damn, I want to write like this.
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Fnord
the begining has a lot of description, which is good in poetry, but you end up still describing a lot of those same things at the end. you could almost start with "his moans pulled at my skirt", forgetting the entire begining, and still have a worthwhile piece of poetry here (albiet a little more ambiguous for sure).
i really liked some of the lines, especially "my feet creep into indigo".
the ending sort of bugs me. i feel as though the clock/life metaphor is used a lot. i'd think about something different perhaps.
I have to say my favorite line would be "my feet creep into indigo"
An excellent piece.
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Without the darkness, there can be no light. Without the light, there can be no dark. Between, there casts the shadow. I am that shadow.
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'SHARKS DON'T SLEEP' a collection of poems by Eric Hamilton.
My ear is at his chest,
and in the sun our dreams slip off.
He wound me up to the moon last night, and now,
his clock has stopped.
Very creative!
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"Hell belongs in a book
Where the setting is doused with flowers
Upon a field, accompanied by butterflies,
As some random man screams,
Todays weather is 50 degrees
With a 101% chance of cloudy skies,
Just to irk the Hell out of it!" -SIRyan-
Congratulations on the DD!
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it's a good ending, i'm not quite sure how to explain it, but it just feels right
grats on the DD
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