Developing Tropes of Steel
This one has been in the gym too long. I'd appreciate any suggestions that sharpen the figures and smooth the expression.DEVELOPING TROPES OF STEELIf mind is like a muscle, as we're told,Then writing...
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Hello Frank,I like your idea, the comparison between body-building in a gym and the writing process.Your line 2 is weak for the body-building process. Why not use the ads from those gyms?something...
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To me, the metaphor comes over as forced and artificial. It's not badly done -- just -- uninteresting. But then, I never liked exercise that much.
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Hello Frank, This was a pleasure to read! A fun and lively poem. The title is a nice fit. I enjoyed the stages of poets and their credibility to encourage the 'work out' ... I agree the turn about...
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Hello, Frank.Good to hear from you.This comes over--dare I say it--as an exercise: competently written, but, as Grady says, not terribly interesting.I hope all's well with you and yours.Best...
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There's no slipping something by to the readers on Sonnet Central. This was an exercise intended to get me back into the practice of writing sonnets. It clearly was forced, as Grady and DG surmised,...
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I like it and thought the metaphor pretty apt...sonnet writing to exercise the brain. Clearly not meant to be of a serious nature...just pure entertaining word-working....delightful. Jogs along very...
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Thanks, Heartsong, for the kind words. As for line 12, I wanted the meter to ripple like those celebrated washboard abs, hence the inverted third foot of the nevertheless decasyllabic line. I wouldn't...
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