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Oct 4 16, 13:55
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Standing still I gazed at their languishing faces, it must have been the stare from their karmic existence that made me buy large framed spectacles. I subconsciously longed to be different make a splash, then others commented "if your eyes are the soul yours look pretty dim". It seemed clear I had broken a rule unknowingly searching life in flames clouding my bluish desire.
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Standing still I gazed at their faces those ones languishing, it must have been the stare from their karmic existence that made me buy large framed spectacles. I subconsciously longed to be different make a splash, then others commented that if your eyes are the soul they looked pretty dim. It seemed clear I had broken a rule unknowingly searching life in flames clouding my bluish desire.
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Oct 4 16, 16:05
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Hi Antony, Another philosophical approach to life, well done. Some irony deftly slipped in, IMO.
I don't think I have any important nits. You just need to add "if your eyes are the soul", although in this context I think it's not properly expressed. "the soul" makes it sound general, not specific to the subject in question.
Maybe "if one's eyes are one's soul" and then use present tense: "yours look pretty dim". Unless we have to suppose that the subject removed the spectacles.
I'd also add a comma after "different".
Your poem comes over to me as if the subject wants to escape his own karma, because whatever one's status in life, supposedly we all have a karma to chisel away at in each life. I don't go for that theory, but I'm just sayin'...
Could you explain what "bluish desire" means? Did the spectacles have a lens with a bluish tone? I go with that, just curious. Well used.
Syl
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Oct 5 16, 00:52
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Thank you for the review.Some food for thought. The idea came at Waterloo station, although the version in my head was far more accomplished
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Oct 5 16, 08:26
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Antony - I like this just have a problem with the first two lines, mainly "those ones languishing"
Standing still I gazed at their faces those ones languishing,
could change it to 'those languishing'
or - 'standing still I gazed at their languishing faces.'
Other than that, fine. RC
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Oct 5 16, 14:46
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Thank you RC for your valuable input
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Oct 6 16, 17:14
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Hi Antony,
You've made some very good changes here in your revision. I've enjoyed the read.
Eira
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Oct 12 16, 17:17
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Ornate Oracle
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Great revision, Antony. It's about perfect to me. No nits now.
Syl
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Mis temas favoritos The Lord replied, my precious, precious child, I love you and I would never leave you. During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you.
"There is no life higher than the grasstops Or the hearts of sheep, and the wind Pours by like destiny, bending Everything in one direction."
Sylvia Plath, Crossing the Water, Wuthering Heights. Nominate a poem for the InterBoard Poetry Competition by taking into careful consideration those poems you feel would best represent Mosaic Musings. For details, click into the IBPC nomination forum. Did that poem just captivate you? Nominate it for the Faery award today! If perfection of form allured your muse, propose the Crown Jewels award. For more information, click here!MM Award Winner
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