11-24-2016, 10:24 AM
(06-09-2016, 06:41 AM)mitsuch Wrote: True
Edit 1:
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

