Sometimes saying things simply can work beautifully and sometimes it falls a little flat. I was hooked from the fourth line of the poem (smuggling arms into a sweater, what a cute and odd image ;] ) and interested until the end - the language was simple but it had enough connections and intricacies as well - chirping brakes, solemn windows. (and what about the brake of dawn? that's a possibility).
Also, this:
seemed to
make them realize that
Is wordy for what you want to say; see if you can rearrange things to either condense this, or make it interesting and descriptive enough to carry its own weight. Connecting bits shouldn't get in the way; something like this would be kosher in even the tightest prose but still feels flabby in poetry.
Points: 890
Reviews: 91
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