Benway

Lift and separate.

No.

When I sat down to throw this on the page, I expected a longer stream of words and feeling, but this is what ended up coming together. I'll admit a ...

Spot on. Sore thumb, it is. While I prefer aspirin, this one's getting a nice, definitive cut right....there.

Re: Kamas While I appreciate a negative review for its critical perspective, I can't admit that I took anything really constructive from your comment. I'm taken by a general sense ...

The narrator of the poem is drinking to the "love."

Thank you all, past and future, for your reviews. This poem is the first brand new poem I've posted here, so it's also my first sample of constructive potential on ...

The poem has nothing whatsoever to do with those things that you mentioned, which leaves me the sad honor of stating that you are a complete literary hack who has ...

Re: perdido The cups are empty because the far-way love has been drunk to.

Re: joshuapaul Not that I intended or am aware of. I'll sometimes employ verse, but rarely do I attempt to or succeed in holding to a strict meter.

Re: NerdBurga I've heard it a thousand times if I've heard it once--to scale down the difficulty of some of the words I choose. I'm glad you mentioned this, an ...

Re: Lumi The abrupt stop of "black and gone" is intentional. The coffee (is black) and gone. The poem's narrator has nothing left to toast his "far-way love" with except ...

Upon reflection, one might find that they already are.