Beautiful. This exceeds your other poems both in literary quality and clarity. You have nearly created an epic, I believe. I thoroughly enjoyed the language, the impressions given, and the topic. Very appropriate for summer. I wouldn't mind putting the sun on trial myself, today (102 degrees).
Your first stanza brings wonderful, hazy images to mind. The only thing that bothered me is something that you seem to do in quite a few of your poems:
to the pyramids becomes nothing
more
than dust in the wake of a starless shore.
I find it extremely annoying that you've given the word "more" its own line. Doing this benefits nothing. I see no meaning in this, it doesn't help the structure, and it ruins the flow of things.
It took me a while to swallow some of the yoda-speak of the poem. It seems strange that you'd incorporate a verb-subject word order unnecessarily -- there being no rhyme scheme to worry about -- but I suppose it added a kind of timeless, ancient feel to the piece. I just wanted to let you know that it feels a tad pretentious.
Have you ever read your poetry out loud? Because I honestly can't see a poem like this being read out loud. It's definately a busy poem, and not being able to savor each word at your own pace would make something like this impossible to grasp or comprehend. Something I'm working on -- because I've been asked on numerous occasions to read my work (which I'm not very good at) -- is to make my poetry more...verbal. You might want to try this?
Have you ever read anything by Cormac McCarthy? Because I get the same feelings from your poetry as I get from his novels. Especially the book Blood Meridian. Your styles are nearly identical -- many sprawling, epic, transcedental descriptions.
Anyway, keep up the good work. I also expect to read that novel you've rumored about.
-Kylan
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