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(6 hours ago)Rich Brown Wrote: Eden’s skyHi Rich - some promise in there, needs a bit of editing
is hell … why specifically would Eden’s sky be hell with or without you? It comes off as a half baked image. You started with something classically poetic - Eden’s sky - but couldn’t quite find a sky-specific image that fit.
without you.
Clouds never move,
bodies never age.
Love will never change. … these three lines are the entire poem. Good stuff.
In this garden,
I will feed you every fruit from the tree of life.
We can live forever, laughing and dancing past eternity’s gate. … a tired, unimaginative follow up to the preceding lines.
Reality could fall from my palm,
mere street change. …. The notion of anything abstract being “small change” is cliched, but the bigger problem is that this portion doesn’t really progress the narrative
I’d stoop to pocket the universe
just to keep one memory of you.
… so is the memory of you mere street change or something valuable? The previous strophe and tbis one say different things. Also, a cliched Image.

