The Forgotten Begotten (Your Take on the Human Paradox)

by Galerius
  • November 12, 2008
  • Poetry
  • Narrative

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Incandescence
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Incandescence wrote a review · Sat Nov 15, 2008 12:31 pm

Galerius,


This is awful. The rhyme scheme in S1 is horribly mangled and then (thankfully) dropped (but to what end? Why introduce a structure only to take it away?).

Many of the images strike me as something one would find in a Legend of Zelda game, e.g., "without a torch dancing into the smoky mirror / of time beyond eternity and elemental twilight."

Some of the lines, particularly the couplet pointed out by errtu2, are the stuff of amateur philosophical prattle that has been subject to a clumsy attempt to elevate it to the level of "profound" through verse: "Nothing vanishes (until it chooses to go)"? Really? What could this even possibly mean?

S3 is practically incoherent.

Throw this away and try something (anything) else.


Best,
Brad

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errtu2
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errtu2 wrote a review · Fri Nov 14, 2008 6:54 am

Im writing this on a failing computer with only a few minutes left on her last battery, so excuse and brevity and/or grammatical errors.

This is a beautiful poem, One for its simplicity, style and dynamo, and a very hardy Two for its intelligence. A learned man at 16 is an impressive sight, but a learned man who can write is a sight to behold. I may be talking out of my ass but I haven't really enjoyed any work on the human paradox since i last read Notes From the Underground.

"They say you can't go home again
but you certainly can self-salvage in hell"

Sublime.

It seems that somebody has finally understood that we are the all seeing all dancing crap of this world, digested it and made a fine poem out of it.

Thank you

And I really mean this, keep it up, keep it right up



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