Poetry Forum

What rule time does not display, In day-quarters, in cool walk, Divine Who schools, when solely, Not too within the day. Omniscience precedes all forms made; Include the sun and moon and say, That day has part, not With time. These orbs have set, transpired: That mark'ed sin, then saw fire; That qui...

The poem does not read as convoluted as the author might have liked. There is license here resulting in a self-serving style, so I concluded that it satisfied only the writer. The "her" in the poem appears hidden in details described by a narrator who attempts parsing their meaning through...

Perhaps the main idea in the poem is that the unfinished sonnet was in disarray. If so, the "shiny webs...in anticipation" might become a metaphor for the author's mind gathering ideas off a "breeze" including the "flowery perfume.." so that writing may recommence. Ther...

I'm glad to be part of a writing forum. It seems from my perusing it that its members will give constructive criticism as I'll attempt to do, also. I'm a postal employee in New York full-time; writing is my hobby. I find it relaxing, enabling me to escape the otherwise, sad to say, pedestrian ambian...