The Slam: Slammables
those songs playing in your head
by sing4eva
splatteredscoreswhiteonshadowsonminebugs with middle missings and fulls withflags for marchinks of dot of dumdadumdumflying tiesand drowning highswithpausesforeffect andlayers of silence of chorddarkdaresfor life and love and brokenswe are down by soaringliesscreamingtrustgentlechaos ofimaginationclouds of cluttered crying cadence callingoutforyoutoadecrescendo slipsink
sipping scattered dreaming melodies
I don't quite know what to do with this poem. On first glance, it is confusion and chaos and I am intimidated by the very sight of it. I nearly didn't read it. On the first run, nothing really changed. The second... some meaning crept sneakily into the words. On the third, it was a like a dam broke and I felt an immediate attachment. All in all, I do like it, but there's something about it, like you've attempted one of those opaque, confusing, but brilliant poems and almost hit the nail on the head, but not quite. It's a bit too like I'm just reading your brain on overdrive, like there was no thought, just a stream of raw emotion. I'm not saying there was no thought -- far from it. I just think that if you polished this up a bit, it could be one of the better poems on this site.
Jun 27, 2010
I think you're trying TOO hard to be stylistic, and you're losing most of your audience. There are definitely things I liked about this poem, but I'm not sure it was worth wading through the mess to find them. I had a hard time reading the one-word string of words, and I couldn't get a rhythm from this because I was too busy sorting out which letters went to which word.
I must say, however, I love the line (despite the lack of spaces): "highswithpausesforeffect." Other than that, I think the best thing you could do for this poem is to give it some spaces and think about which lines actually mean something and which lines are just random strings of words.
Jul 19, 2010

Slammings