[identity profile] wicked-sassy.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] greatpoetry
"Tonight No Poetry Will Serve"
by Adrienne Rich

Saw you walking barefoot
taking a long look
at the new moon's eyelid

later spread
sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair
asleep but not oblivious
of the unslept unsleeping
elsewhere

Tonight I think
no poetry
will serve

Syntax of rendition:

verb pilots the plane
adverb modifies action

verb force-feeds noun
submerges the subject
noun is choking
verb disgraced goes on doing

now diagram the sentence

Date: 2012-01-31 09:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] evilstorm.livejournal.com
I feel like I just read two poems in one. O_o

Date: 2012-02-01 04:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] two-grey-rooms.livejournal.com
auuuuuugh rich <333333.

Date: 2012-02-01 06:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shinygobonkers.livejournal.com
syntax of rendition...so much awesome it is filled with :d

Date: 2012-02-01 07:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jesuslovesbono.livejournal.com
"the new moon's eyelid"

it is, isn't it.

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