Under you

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And then I slow down

Remember to breathe when you're not around

Remember to stay on course with solid ground

To stay in the light so I can be found

I've lost so much

Through what I thought I regained

All the possessions and wherabouts

of Places with no name

All the Tigers I refused to tame



And in a moment of open eyes

I see something new

The way night dies

Under you









under you I'm warm

Under you I'm seen only infrared

under you my hearts a swarm

Under you I hear everything being said




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This is like a song, I think. Very well contained and vivid.
I like how the first line starts with "And", hinting at what happened before (a constrast to the slowness).

Wow your rhyming is great. Nothing tacky or forced here. I love "of places with no name, all the tigers I regused to tame", that's just lovely.

The only problem I could see was:

"under you my hearts a swarm" -> you missed the apostrophe. heart's.




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Hey there, before I get into praising your poem I will first highlight a few things that snagged me:

1.)under you my heart's a swarm -> apostrophes help us to verify ownership :)

2.)
I've lost so much



Through what I thought I regained



All the possessions and wherabouts



of Places with no name



All the Tigers I refused to tame

I was wondering if you ever thought of starting that as a new stanza, it helps to maintain the four-line-stanza rhythm

3.).... truly an excellent poem, very earthy rhyming absolutely nothing is forced or jars against anything else. Truly reflects the mood of the poet.

GL and congratulations on a phenominal piece.




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I really enjoyed the use of imagery in this piece.
I like the way you almost use the words in a way which gives it such a song like quality.
The empathy use also gives a brief tone of itself throughout.

But I have to say you need that little bit more use of punctuation to give it that little boost.

Other than that I enjoyed immensely.
~>>.Madam.Charlotta.<<~



"The trouble with Borrowing another mind was, you always felt out of place when you got back to your own body, and Granny was the first person ever to read the mind of a building. Now she was feeling big and gritty and full of passages. 'Are you all right?' Granny nodded, and opened her windows. She extended her east and west wings and tried to concentrate on the tiny cup held in her pillars."
— Terry Pratchett, Discworld: Equal Rites