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Lost In Her Effervescence

Member since 2005 · Posted 14 Feb 2006 · 18 comments

Loving you is like swimming in soft waters of a cold boiling ocean beneath the driving rain, tumbling through swarming bubbles, like your fingers running, dancing, fumbling along my skin. Your kiss a gasp for air that isn’t there. A chill so, that it burns the illusion of fire, desired over frigid despair. In my bones, they know and cry out swim and so I struggle and as I struggle form more foam to soften, to sink me further in from mothering sun’s warmth into smothering blissful abyss, only to die as the suds die. As if they don’t really exist. Lost to the oldest of lies.

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[9] zodiac 14-Feb-06/12:42 PM Reply
Crits can wait. I hope she liked it.
[n/a] ALChemy › zodiac 14-Feb-06/2:50 PM Reply
I missed the boat. Found out she was engaged.
I figured it's Valentine's Day, might as well post a love poem.
[9] zodiac 14-Feb-06/12:49 PM Reply
If you haven't given it yet, here are my suggestions.

Except for the half rhyme you could stand to lose "in soft waters of", so do the next best thing: drop "of a cold boiling ocean". Or somehow combine the two.

"beneath the driving rain" is one instance where you can drop "the".

"tumbling" and "boiling" seem a little too easy and light for your cold ocean. I'd prefer edgier words. She might not.

And easy way to handle punctuation AND edge would be to simply say "I tumble through swarming bubbles."

I want to hear more about the air that isn't there. Is there time? It's a great hint of image/predicament/etc, anyway.

"A chill so, that it burns the illusion / of fire," - ??? That's a little grammar-weird. I can see why, but...

"In my bones, they know" - since it's you bones that know, it'd be best to clear that up: "My bones, they know", "In my bones, I know", "These old bones, they know" - something.

That's all. And again, I think you'll get laid whatever you do with it.
[n/a] ALChemy › zodiac 14-Feb-06/3:15 PM Reply
This is going to be a hard fix because the "S" words seem to give me that ocean sound and the "B" and "D" words give my bubble sounds and the scattered rhymes and half rhymes seem to fit in as well. So I still want to keep those things in mind when making adjustments. Besides it's a silly little love poem. It has little logic to me, only an abstract feeling I felt that I could think of no better way to describe. But you're right on most accounts, definitely on the "bones they know" part.
I'll let you get back to the new recruits we've picked up here. You surely have your work cut out for you.
[8] ecargo 14-Feb-06/3:21 PM Reply
Fire and ice, air and un-air - bonus points for making "cold boiling" work. Cool.
[8] Dovina 14-Feb-06/4:53 PM Reply
I struggle to relate any lovemaking I've known to cold or boiling. Soft - yes. Swarming buggles - maybe. Fingers running and dancing, fumbling - yes. But a kiss as a gasp for air - well, can't relate. A chill that burns - yes, right on. But frigid despair - that's a let-down. The next part eludes me. But blissful abyss is okay. And only to die as the suds die - yes. And I don't like the last two lines. Just an opinion.
[n/a] ALChemy › Dovina 15-Feb-06/5:44 AM Reply
It's about loving a girl that I know is someone elses. Hence the hot/cold and other juxtapositions. What I feel is one thing, what is real is another.
Although I've never felt "swarming buGGles" when I was with a woman I certainly do look forward to it some day :)
The poem sounds so passionate but in reality it's quite sad, that's the big let down I think. There's probably alot of men out there who missed the boat with you feeling like this poem
and you don't even know it, you little heartbreaker you.
[8] Dovina › ALChemy 15-Feb-06/7:57 AM Reply
We oversimplify men's feelings too often. Seldom does one give us the inside story. I want to write about it soon.
[n/a] ALChemy › Dovina 15-Feb-06/2:28 PM Reply
Can't blame you, we men tend to oversimplify our feelings when expressing them.
[8] Dovina › ALChemy 16-Feb-06/7:05 PM Reply
When she’s upset it’s tears, blubbering, and a thirty-minute monolog. When he’s upset, he says, “What the hell were you thinking?” Who was the most upset? That’s what I want to write about.
[n/a] richa › ALChemy 15-Feb-06/3:12 PM Reply
Oh, I didn't realise you were just putting opposites next to eachother without though of the dire and terrible consequence of such an action. I thought you were attempting to write a poem that made sense.

The bubbling which is often associated with heating-up but was actually caused by the swell of a river or a plunge pool or something which was cold is a smart metaphor. But how the hell is the ocean cold and boiling. :(
[n/a] ALChemy › richa 15-Feb-06/4:14 PM Reply
See definition 2 here:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=boiling
I suppose I could have said "of a cold seething ocean" but then I'd have lost the juxtaposition.
[8] amanda_dcosta 15-Feb-06/6:55 AM Reply
Hmm not bad. I like the phrases 'soft waters', 'cold boiling ocean', 'blissful abyss', 'die as the suds die'. Things like this make up your poem. About critiquing it, looks like other's have already done so about what came to mind. She's a lucky girl to have someone still dedicate a valentine special to her.
[8] Ranger 19-Feb-06/4:12 PM Reply
Line 8 - is it meant to be 'cry out "Swim..."'? That would seem to make more sense to me. I like 'mothering sun', I take it that is a semi-play on 'mothering sunday'? It makes that passage a neat little metaphor for life.
I'm not totally sure about the last line, in a way it unbalances the 'positive/negative' equilibrium of this piece.
[n/a] ALChemy › Ranger 19-Feb-06/4:53 PM Reply
Yes "swim". It just felt weird putting something you were feeling in your bones in quotations but I think you're right.
I'm American and you know how ignorant we tend to be about other countries holidays so although Mother's Day, because it falls on sunday, came into play(more so as an afterthought) the term Mothering Sunday was unknown to me until now. It started more as an auditory word play on the opposites "mother" and "son".
I have a tendency to stray a little from the structure of my poems in the last lines because I like how it makes them stand out and it seems to give the poem better closure. In this case it sinks the poem into a sense of surrender I think.
[8] Ranger › ALChemy 20-Feb-06/5:32 AM Reply
Ah, that makes sense as well. I love your style of writing, it means your poems allow such a variety of interpretations whilst retaining a definite continuity - so bravo!
[7] Caducus 17-May-06/8:37 AM Reply
Good title, not a bad stab and i like the way you go straight into it - no fucking about.

The last line but 3 - suds? I'm sure you can find a better word than suds and that line is clumsy anyway as you'll find it hard to convince people that an abyss is blissful so how about -

mother sun's fingers stroke the abyss
only to fade on its burning mouth
close to her lips where i drowned
only to surface with lies.


something along those lines maybe, it has potential bud.
[n/a] ALChemy › Caducus 17-May-06/12:22 PM Reply
Yeah, "Suds" kinda bugged me too but froth was the only other word I could come up with and that sounded even worse. The blissful abyss line was sort of the image of someone the moment they succumb, arms outstretched, drifting. It seemed to just look rather blissful. I like your suggestion alot although it doesn't quite go with the loose half rhyme scheme I had going. You got me thinking now.