07-22-2024, 06:17 AM 
	
	
	(07-21-2024, 05:21 AM)brynmawr1 Wrote: LostSee above for a few suggestions. This is generally pleasant and the halting (in a good way) line breaks and serried margins are effective.
Always not to overthink, but is "[A]lways" the best way to start when you're going to rotate through the times of day?
the broad light pushing
apart our
shining dome of sky, ringing
vertigo of curving
horizon; suffered my eyes perhaps "deafened" to go with "din?" (And, incidentally, fit with "Dim" below.)
in its din of bright.
Dim of dusk
is where I find you
at the end, what
is there but night
its promise
holding close, hands
cupped round
not to smother
but to banish those
hobgoblins of day nice contrast, hobgoblins being normally (?) creatures of darkness
beyond a campfire’s ring.
Let the thick dark fall,
earthen and wet "earthen" is nice - on the shading side of the planet
to blanket us in
a simple child’s fort
lit, now within
my sky the blurred blue good, appropriate use of "the"
of your eyes, my horizon
the curve of your smile but could another word serve her instead?
everything now
as close as a kiss. good alliteration
How we laugh
at the parallax,
the shifting perspective
between
camera one and camera two;
Time fumbling lower case "t," I think - Time is not being personified in the rest of the phrase, is It?
about having lost our knowing
hands still finding
their own way.
Scant the warning; that tingle "the" feels dated here - "our," perhaps?
on the nape
of the horizon. Dawn gathering on "gathers," perhaps, even "gathers low"
its haunches, hungry
for dreams, again
dying bringing "on" up to the end of this line might be interesting
on tomorrow’s brightening lips.
I have a little trouble with the campfire's ring. I see the conventional ring/circle of stones immediately around the fire but I think you mean the boundary where its light fades. But I have no suggestion for a replacement - "disk" and "circle" won't do.
Nicely done.
 Non-practicing atheist
 Non-practicing atheist

 

 
