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Here

Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2021 7:02 pm
by AlienFlower
Here
 
Today in a corner of our deck
the storm walked out on
hail the size of sheep’s poo, 
chalky—new— 
or brown 
where the boards shone through.
Cat’s eyes between the two.
Don’t like things dying on me.

Re: Here

Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2021 12:35 am
by Matty11
So it is the cat that has died Jackie?

Re: Here

Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2021 9:44 pm
by AlienFlower
Oh, oh. Is it that unclear? No, the cat's eyes are half-melted hailstones that keep their shape so look like marbles. But because they keep their shape they evoke the sad sight of jellyfish stranded on the beach.

Re: Here

Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2021 10:57 pm
by Matty11
Probably me Jackie, I wasn't connecting to the experience.

best

Phil

Re: Here

Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2021 11:11 am
by Tracy Mitchell
Love this Jackie -- I took the cat's eyes to be those hailstones lodged in the spaces between the deck boards -- where the color of the deck doesn't appear -- where the light illuminates the hail stones.  The dying = melting, dropping through the spaces. 

Love the sounds unfolding -- poo/new/through/two -- and the unexpected and abrupt last line.  Nicely crafted.

T

Re: Here

Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2021 1:51 am
by TrevorConway
Hi Jackie,

This felt like a nice start to a poem, setting a snapshot scene. Then, it seemed to change course suddenly for the last line. What were you tryng to get across in the poem? Maybe teasing out the original intention you had would create a fuller poem. Nice images and language in most of what's there (apart from the sheep's poo :o ). Liked the phrasing of the storm walking out on the hailstones.

Trev

Re: Here

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2021 3:22 pm
by AlienFlower
Phil, you know clarity isn't my strength. I'm working on it.

Trev, I appreciate your idea for going further with it; definitely need a push these days. 

T, yes, I guess it's about the beauty/tragedy of this rare thing dying.

Thank you, everyone, your input helps.

Jackie

Re: Here

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2021 1:08 am
by Matty11
Phil, you know clarity isn't my strength. I'm working on it.
I feel clarity is too aligned to simplicity. More a matter of how the reader can experience inside rather than outside the poem.

Re: Here

Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2021 5:44 am
by Dave
Hi Jackie
Interesting poem. I would suggest cutting 'Today' in L1 as an irrelevant detail and a rather typical start to a poem. I would also suggest making this present tense rather than past to increase the immedicacy.

Dave