All Comments on 'Not intended, but where I ended'

fist and last stanza are interesting, second:

>>>>I fling a stone of words

into a well and forge

on with the day.<<<<<

is perfect

it's a way of expression that grabs hold of you and stays with you. Who ever intends to be a poet, right? But some of us are just drawn to it. :-)

This is great.

but one makes do with what one did, TK U MLJ LV NV

...in the final six lines is well chosen with internal rhymes flowing smoothly. I think this is really good. Five from me.

This is delightful, tod. It had a musical lilt to it, at least to my ear.

Yes. Very good indeed. The ideas, feeling and flow.

May I preface my further comments.

'Non erotic poetry' is the most civilised and kindest of hubs on Literotica. Both virtues not to be dismissed - especially kindness. As OldBear has said - criticism is more by omission.

My absolute favourite poet is Philip Larkin. The words and language are normal. The meanings are clear - though one may be troubled through to other meanings and feelings. Oddly, I also very much like TS Eliot. Not the clearest of poets. And I very much like Rudyard Kipling - who is often dismissed as a versifier. Curiously TS Eliot adored him too. Read 'Cold Iron'. Most other poets, including the greats, leave me cold.

I love the ideas and feelings and flow in 'Not intended'.

But.

In places, I am confused whether you are talking of your or their poetry? Are the old poems great or dead? Do my questions matter? Is my confusion intended and part of the poem?

The alliteration and flow work from the start until the last line - which breaks the flow. I think that break of flow on the last line is intended and a good device to emphasis that last phrase. But I find I do not like that last phrase 'glory of words'. It seems easy, banal even & not up to the quality and subtlety of the rest of the poem.

Fine poem.

Hope you are not offended and take my comments as the mark of the high regard I have for your writing.

the letters know not where they go as intended, TK U MLJ LV NV