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6/21/2010 7:51:22 AM
James Marion
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Twenty seconds time
Is the time that it takes me
To update Facebook
Twenty minutes time
I could have written poems
Instead, arguments
In twenty days time
To Russia, China and back
But no, mostly naps
In twenty more months
I might go study abroad
I’m safer back home
It’s been twenty years
I thought by now I’d be rich
I’m working at it
Twenty more years gone
I thought I’d be married now
Go figure, I’m sick
They say twenty months
But two years if I’m lucky
Hardly long enough
Twenty day respite
Then awful physicians
Unfortunately
Twenty minutes pass
And I forget the last five
But I still take naps
Count back from twenty
I should update my status
My eyes are drowsy
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6/21/2010 10:53:53 PM
Aleh Barysau
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The word “naps”are repeated two times, it is too much for such a short story. I would substitute the line I’m safer back home for But no, mostly naps, like this:
In twenty days time
To Russia, China
I’m safer back home
In twenty more months
I might go study abroad
But no, mostly naps
Lines /Twenty days respite/Then awful physicians/Unfortunately/are not very clear. Nothing for it but to guess it is about work. It lacks for punctuation. I foresee your objection that this is a stream of consciousness. Anyway, with missing marks it looks cropped.
The message,as I understood, is
Time going sure forward: 20 sec – 20 min – 20 (Oh!) hrs missed– 20 days – 20 months – 20 yrs – and … and it goes backward: 20 yrs – 20 months– 20 days – 20 hrs missed again – 20 min – 20 sec and a world-weary man between times, the time devouring the man, and then belching him.
There is the idea of renewal, in other words, possibility to have a chance to start all over again.
The poem is rather raw. I gained the impression that it has been versified in a hurry and has been done anyway. There is only a lame try to find a new form for an old substance.
Thank you,
Oleg
edited by Oleg on 6/21/2010
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6/22/2010 7:02:49 AM
James Marion
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As haiku, I cannot change the lines as you have suggested. Consider reading a description of 'haiku'. The terseness and word real-estate are foundations of the form of poetry.
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6/22/2010 9:02:55 AM
Aleh Barysau
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Of course, I guessed, reading the poem, that it had been written in that form, and I was greatly surprised by such innovation. As I know that traditional HAIKU is divided into 3 lines. They have a 5-7-5 syllable pattern and answer the questions according to a particular WHERE–WHAT–WHEN sequence. A good haiku in 3 lines can compete, as to the richness of its content, even with a 30 line poem, as yours,which is bigger tenfold. Your tercets can disturb the traditional preference of a WHERE-WHAT-WHEN pattern. And your lines in each tercet yields to haiku both in meaning and form. That is what I meant.
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7/1/2010 8:11:51 AM
Catie Lindsey
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I thought your progression of time was quite clever! It was clear to me that this had really nothing to do with work, but in life passing so quickly. I loved the ending also. I thought this was quite nice just the way it is.  Catie
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