I am curious as to whether this really happened to you or not. It would be an interesting tale if it did but with the description sort of hinting along the lines and as soon as I saw the words 'seal in the back of the truck', I could tell where it was leading. Or at least what the misunderstanding would be.
A litle bit strange, Snow. Another one of your works that hit close to home for me. At first this started out a bit like a comedy with Alicia just wondering what her name was and not wishing to believe her mother even though she provided a license as proof.
However, I noticed you had not marked it as a comedy in the genres section. It also took on a more somber tone as she kept forgetting her name and perhaps even her sense of self.
This hit close to home for me since I've had serious short-term and long-term memory problems of my own 'cos of medical problems. Never forgotten my name though,
I enjoyed this poem largely because of the images it stirred within me in a outlook of life that I had recently accepted. Basically, that the past is unchangeable, we should not get mired in remembering the unpleasant parts of it, we should live in the moment and look forward to the future.
Your poem seemed to express some of those concepts as well and , to be honest, I am not generally a fan of blank/free verse.
However, I did not understand why three words were in bold....
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