Okay pomp. I am here to save you from the wretched green room and to save myself from a reviewing dry season.
This poem speaks to me.
We really must be nwins because I can see exactly where you're coming from. Reading this poem leads me through a barrage of emotions.
the reader gets the sense that the narrator is perhaps just a little bit not-quite-there. It's like the world is spinning a little bit and is not quite the right color and everything is coming undone at the corners. Which fits the content perfectly.
What I get from this, other than the delicious feelings I mentioned before is a story about a young person who is questioning and reflecting and fearing and relishing life. There's all this beauty that life creates with the beautiful sky and soft things and colors, but the narrator isn't certain what will happen next. It seems to me that they think they will end up successful but changed into the kind of person who doesn't notice the beauty of life. The kind of person who sits behind a stale desk and slaves away, forgetting their purpose. And the young person is afraid of becoming that. But in the end they decide to live in the moment.
Regardless of whether that vague story was what you intended, that's what I got out of the poem.
Your word-choice was fantastic, as always, and the images were vivid.
Again, one thing that turns people off from poems is length. I think there are a couple places in here that you don't really need. Those are up to you to find. If the sentence doesn't add something to the poem, you should cut it, me thinks. That way you can condense your point and emotion. At the same time, I enjoyed almost all of this... There was one stanza that seemed to not fit for me.
It was the part about the syrup and cardboard. It just seemed like a useless stanza that went on for too long.
The rest seems to follow some sort of convoluted pathway. And that's good. That it's convoluted I mean you know.
I didn't notice any glaring mistakes or anything. This was too surreal to know what is supposed to be there and what isn't. You did a fantastic job at that.
I'm sorry this review couldn't be more helpful, but please, if you have any specific questions about whether something works or not, I would love to be of service.
Keep writing!
~fortis
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