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The Jeremy Files, Chapter 1: Sunlit Memories

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friendship, love, sadness, poetry
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June 10, 10:32pm

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This is a series of poems I wrote while being depressed. Just so you know, an ex-friend of mine is named Jeremy and he caused my depression...

Chapter Description

This poem is a kyrielle, with a little twist at the end, which means the last line is repeated through each quatrain and the rhyme scheme is aabb.

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You pushed me away with no cause
Ripped my torn heart out with your claws
But I remember the good times
Sunlit memories haunt my mind

Now we don’t talk anymore, at all
While I remember, the tears fall
Three special days, stopped inside time
Sunlit memories haunt my mind

We were close, as close as could be
Movies hands held, times we were free
Then overnight, meanness defined
Sunlit memories haunt my mind

I liked you, you sometimes liked me
Then you said “it's a lie you see?”
In my head, my sadness confined
Sunlit memories haunt my mind

I try to let go, but I cant
Many good times, forget I shan’t
I wish you’d go back, being kind
(So these) Sunlit memories (will stop) haunt(ing) my mind

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 I enjoyed this, despite its depressing theme. I write poetry, sometimes, but I'm more of a free verse accidental rhyming type of poetry writer. Becaues of that, I have respect for writers who manage to put meaning to so much structure. I think you did a very good job with the rhyme scheme, but the rhythm seemed a bit off to me. Some of the stanzas felt a little.. uneven.

You pushed me away with no cause
Ripped my torn heart out with your claws
But I remember the good times
Sunlit memories haunt my mind

In the first two lines, I struggled a little. I felt like I was rushing through the second line a little. And going from the second line to the third line was a major shift; I feel like the third line is a little short.

The second stanza felt much more comfortable, and just seemed to flow much better than the first.

Stanza three was my favorite:

We were close, as close as could be
Movies hands held, times we were free
Then overnight, meanness defined
Sunlit memories haunt my mind

The rhythm was great. It's an excellent "out loud" stanza. I really like lines two and three.

Stanza four was good, although the word "sometimes" felt a little.. big, or clunky.

Last stanza:

I try to let go, but I cant
Many good times, forget I shan’t
I wish you’d go back, being kind
(So these) Sunlit memories (will stop) haunt(ing) my mind

The word "cant" should be "can't" (I'm sure just a typo). The first two lines feel a little unbalanced, again. Like maybe the first line should say "but I just can't." I don't know. The ending was creative, though. I would take out the parentheses, however. I think readers will get the parallel.

Overall, I liked it. It kind of left me wondering what happened. Why was it a lie? I really liked the repeating line; it just sounded very.. poetic and smooth. Well done Maybe just read it out loud and pay close attention to the rhythm.

 Wow! What can I say?

I like it as is.

just clean up with a few

punctuations here and there

And you're all set.

I like it. I like it.

 

  I like this one a lot, but I would take out the parentheses  in the last line.

I liked this poem. The Kyrielle is a nice break from the usual free verse poetry one usually finds on these kinds of sites. I myself am partial to poems that rhyme and have a flair for the archaic.

I liked the topic. It's a common enough experience that many people can relate to it, yet not nearly as commonly seen in poetry as other themes concerning love. It's familiar yet not overdone.

I will say the sort of slant rhyme of time(s)/mind was a little "iffy" to me. They are close enough to sound similar and not throw off the whole poem, but I kind of wish a closer rhyme had been used, though I have no suggestion for what words you might use.

The problem with trying to write from a modern perspective but writing using an antiquated form is that sometime they don't match the way they should. You use somewhat archaic sentence structure and word like "shan't" appropriately, and I believe that fits with the kyrielle. However, when you talk about movies, and use meanness is a modern-sense (as the opposite of kindness, as opposed to meaning lowness of class or pertaining to commoners) it can ever so slightly degrade what was gained by using a more archaic form of poetry. It's not something that needs to be "fixed" per se, just something to think about.

Movies hands held

Grammatically this phrase doesn't seem to work as it should. If you mean holding hands at the movies, it should be reworded. However, if you put a comma after movies, it could work and just be seen as meaning that these are two individual items in a list: "Movies, [and] hands held". Just something to consider. You might also consider removing the parentheses in the last line for a smoother look and a better feel, in my opinion.

But apart from these minor issues you should look at, this was a good poem that I liked very much.

I really really like this poem.  It's written very thoroughly - if that makes sense.  All of the rhymes flow together and sound far from forced.   I absolutely think you should keep the parentheses in - the poem can be read with or without the words inside and they give it a sense of duality.  It builds up the sense that the speaker is trying to move on with their life, but its an aside inside the poem - and while important - not completely the point.

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