by Liar
ideas and language.
I'd like to see it condensed down just a little.
the last stanza is great stuff:
for midwinter bloom
angels on pins
and elephants
though the needle's eye
we all dream of this
but do we know why?
Thank you
This was my favorite today. Well written, clever phrases and interesting images.
as if chaos theory fractals
were beneficial fairies
heeding to our wish
and curving logic
to please whims
Great words!
that "deliquescence" was melded into the English language just after our American revolution. It gave me a strange perspective as I eased through your wonderful poem.
I did miss the repition of "sometimes" in the third strophic section of the poem, after your line "we dream for something larger"... not that it mattered.
Thanks for the read, Liar.
is found here:
we all dream
for something larger
than a tepid trifle's
twin edged kiss
something more
than this
This poem was mentioned in the Archival Review thread, in a picking through Lit's archive of over 37,000 poems.
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