Okay...This was weird...Really strange similes.
The snow
crunches under our feet
like an old melon
splitting.
Dude this really freaked me out.How do you see a crushed melon like FREAKING CRUNCHED SNOW!?!
Okay...On a serious note. This was really confusing. It was a bit unimaginative and didn't really excite me.
You have a weird choice of similes which might be your downfall in this poem.
We turn
the ashtray on its side
and watch the dry
black dust
drift away in the wind.
This was a strange place to break the lines apart. I saw what you did.(2; 3; 4; 5; 6) It just doesn't work for me.
All in all: This needs a lot of work. It has a strange choice of similes and that is not good. We must be able to imagine the simile, therefore it needs to fit what you compared it with. You can't compare a swan with a wrecking ball.(Unless of course you are writing one hell of a dementing poem)
Hope it helps
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