I really love this Lim! And I think it is a really great take on the prompt - I can kind of see this unfolding like a children's book with illustrations for each line or section, it seems like a sort of fantastical / regal tone too.
On the pier, high winds
blowing in my face.
The space is yawning,
sky surrounding us –
the nation squeezed
into a single droplet
at the edge of
the floating isle.
.
A concentration of humanity,
of red woollen caps, and wide-brimmed sunhats,
with meandering exclamations
drowned by the whirring.
.
Up above, sky-ships
take a v-formation
– the horns blow –
I know what
it is, yes
I feel music
in my bones
before
my ears do.
.
She is descending, fluff-first,
white mountain of cloud
hanging upside down
and splitting into cumulus puffs –
.
The Whale! Oh, if only
you could have been there,
you could have seen
the Whale,
her airy gait,
the soothing hum
of her song,
and us, half a nation
barely flecks
in comparison.
I really love this Lim! And I think it is a really great take on the prompt - I can kind of see this unfolding like a children's book with illustrations for each line or section, it seems like a sort of fantastical / regal tone too.
Your title reminds me of that one book about whales floating in the sky, I don't remember exactly the title was, but I found the surreal amazing awesome due to its futuristic appearence.
Anyways, this is Kelisot to review another poem. I'm not the best when it comes to criticize something, so this review will mostly be positive for the moment.
First of all, what I can mention about this poem is that the poetry is very visual and is very metamorphic. This slightly makes it hard for people to interpret the way you want your poem to be (which can be both good and bad). This is how interpreted your poem.
The first stanza is something visually sounding like from a ocean-related location, using words such as piers. Your personification of the winds moving and the space yawning is a great example of personification, and I loved the line. I'm not sure about the last few lines, but it seems that the world is now a floating island??? Or maybe metamorphic expression of talking how the Earth is a droplet of water??? I'm not 1000% how to interpret, but we'll just say this is the narrator's "world".
The second stanza is the most stanza and the most vague and least understandable one for me. I don't know what exactly it was supposed to understand, maybe talking about sunburns using the expression of red wollen hats??? I honestly have no idea of what real-life interpretation this is supposed to be, even if it even one.
The last two stanzas are my favorite. This is where the real sky-whale comes through, and she hums a great song that everyone listens with awe and wonder. Even the narrator shoots lines such as:
The Whale! Oh, if only
you could have been there,
you could have seen
the Whale...
The beach air welcomes us.The salty wind tosses our hair into funny curls.And the whale emerges, majestic and glorious.This was a lovely poem! I could smell the air of the ocean as I read this.I imagined it all happening in my own head.That splash the whale made must have been a lot, though.Yeah. I hope that you will have an awesome and marvelous day and night.
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