All Comments on 'The Selekcja'

This poem will have to be read at least twice by most readers, for it is not until the title's explanation at the bottom that one truly begins to grasp the poem. . . And then, of course, you are forced to read it again to see what was hidden the first time!

An interesting work, thank you.

I looked up the word before I realized you had a definition at the bottom.

These are very good lines:

The formless shapes, wire sculptures

of taunted men in twisted frames,

Your poem was mentioned in today's New Poems Reviews.

paints a picture of horror. Wow. Well done.

~Syn

Offers a claustrophobic ambiance of an arduous and hopeless trapped existence.

This repeat of the second stanza as the fourth is brutal, disorienting.

As if the other repeats weren't enough to install this numbness in your mind.

In the context, the rhyme here is devasting.

"gray on gray"

"day by day"

This makes me feel guilty pushing the thermometer, saying "Loved it" - it is an effective poem.