Nocturnal ignorance
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By Beeme
Fri, 25 Mar 2011
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You break away;
shadow from darkness.
Rising into light,
leaving behind
a sense of loss.
Stained,
the walls repeal
stripping…
each photograph
to its bones.
No colours remain,
to mimic a memory.
My skeletal frame
buried...
in a blackened room.
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You must have been in a dark
You must have been in a dark place when you wrote this Beeme.
'stripping…
each photograph
to their bones.
No colour’s remain,
to mimic a memory'
The images I got from those lines were immense.
X
Pinda
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Hi there, Beeme. Basically,
Permalink Submitted by Silver Spun Sand on
Hi there, Beeme. Basically, this is very good. Just a few suggestions below:-
"...each photograph to their bones", might be better, "each photograph to its bones". Makes a nice internal rhyme with 'mimic' a line below.
Also, the word 'buried' would be way more effective on the line by itself.
And in that last line, maybe change 'in a blacked room' to 'in a blackened room'.
And, last but not least, colour's is not a possessive, but a plural...in this case anyway, so doesn't need an apostrophe.
As pinda says, the imagery here is powerful, and you very successfully suck the reader in to a very dark place indeed.
Tina xx
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This is great now, Beeme;-)
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This is great now, Beeme;-) Tina xx
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It's edgy and disturbing but
It's edgy and disturbing but very effective I think. A lot contained in a few words. Very good.
Rob
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Love the images of the walls
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Love the images of the walls and photographs! Truly haunting - well done on the cherry!
Magic xxx
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