Forum: Writers


Subject: Poem - Fogbound

tresamie opened this issue on Sep 02, 2002 ยท 16 posts


Crescent posted Sat, 07 September 2002 at 10:27 AM

The music would work for a movie or be great for a video game, but the sounds were distracting for me trying to read. This might work if someone was narrating the poem, with the music in the background (and the volume evened out so the interruptive sounds were dimmed.) Is the music yours? I do like it, just not in this context. Overall, I liked the poem, but the cadence seemed just slightly off. I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out what seems strange, but I'm not the best at poetry, and it could very well be me, not the poem. (When it comes to poetry, I advise everyone to trust other people's critiques more than mine.) I really loved some of the phrases you used, such as "wrapped in weather." I'd have to say, though, that "Warming me with rays of hope and making me feel fine" makes me feel cheated given the great phrases that you use elsewhere. I do like the last line precisely because it can be interpretted a few ways. It's definitely a poem I can sympathize with.