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_refugee_  ·  3411 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Feedback Appreciated ......Dreams Within a Nightmare

There's a lot of convoluted, purposefully-syntactically-flipped sentences in here. I think that your poem would have a lot more power if they weren't out of order like that. For example:

  
    Dark and endless would be the pain of a billion suffering stars which never were nursed.
to

  
    The pain of a billion suffering stars which never were nursed would be dark and endless.
    Chilling is the thought of a family in peril.

to

"The thought of a family in peril is chilling."

I just don't think that a sentence should be made out of order in order to make the sentence sound more "philosophical" or like it has somehow more weight.





user-inactivated  ·  3411 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thx refugee,

I have that same issue with most of my writing, where i also view it as pretentious and snobbish. Made to appear it has weight when in reality there is a void there, an emptiness of sorts.

I dig what you have to say about the style, i personally see how constructing a sentence in such a way is or might appear annoying, the reason i write is such a structure is because English is not my first language, but it is my preference to write in it. also, when i write in such a structure, i perceive that it has a different connotation, creating more imagery and warmth. i don't know which i like better, i am not sure if its a preference issue or if its syntax or structurally incoherent or simply wrong on my part.