Sea Swallow Me (Tw;slight violence)
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(12-16-2024, 11:23 AM)Pebbel~Lady Wrote:  Sea swallow me, sibilance here works for me. It works really well actually, and continues throughout the poem to some degree. Lean in, there are areas without it that could use it.
drag me under the waves, bit of a mixed metaphor here, what is the sea doing swallowing or dragging? Might work better if you expand on the swallowing metaphor
ferocious and cold. Ferocious works, cold not so much. The idea is fine—not the most original but it's fine—the word doesn't work for me, it feels a bit lifeless and nondescript. Adjectives are best put before the noun they modify, else they feel melodramatic.

Sea swallow me whole, I like the shift from swallow me to swallow me whole, like it a lot, feels like an appropriate expansion. Lean and more.
thrash me against the rocks again, you'd be much better off to continue with the swallowing metaphor, expanding on it. It may be a cliche, but you can make it your own, give it life, there's something there.
and cut my skin.
Drag me down and consume my lungs nice. Good stuff, really.
with your salty waters

Sea hold me,
sting my eyes and wipe them clean
cradle and caress me before you let go good stanza in theory, this line kind of holds it back for me. It's long, interrupts the fragmented flow, and doesn't add anything new from the previous two lines. Holding is already intimate and loving, wiping eyes is already comforting.

Sea,
draw out the chill in my bones, Now, how's it going to do that, you said it was cold? Or did you mean "draw out" as in "bring to the surface" instead of "remove?" If so, what would it mean about the speaker, to have deeply chilled bones? I'm not quite sure? Either a confused metaphor or an unexplored one, to my eye.
gouge out my gut tonal shift here, visceral, not sure if I get the juxtaposition between the emotional physicality of the previous lines and the raw physicality here.
and rip me in half if you must "and" doesn't work for me, neither does "if you must" if you must in order to what? I don't know what's being said.

Sea let go
you can't hold me so
I can't warm your vast waters
you only yell
and I can only listen 

Sea swallow me,
drown me, 
take me down. I might just be an idiot, but I've lost the plot in these two stanzas. I would offer a more substantive critique, but I actually don't know what you're doing or saying

Let me go. I like this ending. It feels good, feels real.
Hi, I hope I'm not coming across as mean! I really think there's something here, but there's some digging you've got to do to find it, I think. It's got good bones.
Please be harsh. I don't take well to praise. If I'm harsh with your poem, that means I liked it.
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RE: Sea Swallow Me (Tw;slight violence) - by flotsson - 03-14-2025, 07:17 PM



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