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(06-09-2016, 06:41 AM)mitsuch Wrote:  True

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We stand in this delectable land,                     > I like the set-up here
a casing, enveloping truth.                              > I read and re-read...this gave me a "huh?" response. Is the                                                                              casing the delectable land? Perhaps the               phrasing/punctuation is what threw me.

We live in a world sightless,
our faint ideas of the world.                            > There isn't any impact of the repetition of "world"; also, I                                                                                  am very unclear as to what this stanza is referring to...

A false belief is delivered,               >At this  point, I feel the poem ticks at a good pace, the message is                                                                    more clear, the language is more concise and carries the reader directly                                                            through to the last line.
a love that leaves us bland 

a complex matrix of man,
a cloak over sincerity.

An embrace, that fixates,
an untrue fleeting grace.

We lie at the mercy of us,
As we let ourselves into the embrace.   

Original :

We stand in this delectable land
A casing, enveloping truth

We live in a world sheathed,
Our faint ideas of the world

A false belief is delivered 
A love that leaves us bland 

A complex matrix of man
A cloak over genuine meaning 

An embrace that fixates
An untrue fleeting grace 

We lay at the mercy of us
As we let ourselves into the embrace 
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