Sugar Sweet Sky

by ConverseFireGirl

Published February 2, 2014

E - Everyone

In Poetry

Whipped cream clouds

are swirled upon

a cherry ice-cream sky

and is beginning to trickle

into the crystallizing honey below.

Liquid caramel

lines the horizon,

with a soft glow and gazed shine.

Best of all,

black icing decorates the sweetness;

frail bodies and strong wings,

are made by an artist's touch.

Perfection

in the shape

of soaring birds.

Comments & reviews · 3
TakeThatYouFiend wrote a review Review · Feb 9, 2014

Hello! Very well done here, it's like that poem you wrote describing the sky in terms of painting, only tastier!
Fourth line: it says "is beginning to", but as I read it it was referring to the "whipped cream clouds", which are in the plural. So surly that should read "are beginning to"?
I found black icing strange-black not being something I would generally not like the colour of my cake to be. Liquorice is black, and seems less death-like than black icing. Just my viewpoint; I am not highly trained on the subject of sweets. (Curse my braces)
Hope this helps,
Take That You Fiend!

Ah, thank you! That really helps! :D I know your pain for braces :( But thank you!
-CFG

TakeThatYouFiend commented Comment · Feb 9, 2014

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GoldFlame wrote a review Review · Feb 2, 2014

Flame here!

I can only admire your creativity. I've heard of cotton-candy clouds, but never of an ice-cream sky or caramel lining the horizon. Kinda makes me reflect back on Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (the book, not the movie), where the sun against snow was butter on mashed potatoes. Now I have someone to blame for making me hungry :D.

Grammar, spot-on. Spelling, spot-on. Line-breakings, perfect.

I just think that some lines would function better as fragments. Otherwise, the poem translates as prose. Your use of predicates also chips away at that half-humorous, half-enigmatic theme. So the first few lines might look like:

Whipped cream clouds
Swirled upon
A cherry ice-cream sky,
Beginning to trickle


But it's purely a stylistic choice. Wouldn't blame you for not listening :D.

frail bodies and strong wings,
are made by an artist's touch.


I'd recommend going with active voice here. Clears up the meaning a bit.

That's all I have. This was an enjoyable read. Keep up the good work! Looking forward to reading more of your work!

Thank you very much for this! It was greatly helpful, and I can totally see your points :P Thanks again!
-CFG

No problem!



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