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Pulchritude
We could have been so
pulchritudinous,
Together
in
the sun.
But in the dark, crepuscular night,
You did
not believe
in us.
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I've read all of your poems posted here and I LOVE your voice.
You are a fan of large spaces between words or stanzas. I understand this in one or two poems, but why do you do it in almost all? I feel like it is more effective employed with a bit more rarity.
In this poem, I do think the spacing works. I can't really explain why (frustratingly so), but when I read it in my head it made sense.
I love the word pulchritude (haven't heard it in a long while).
The whole poem -especially the contrast of day/night and believing by light and losing faith by darkness- snagged me for a few minutes while I read and reread it.
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Hey there, thanks again. :]
I'll admit that I do enjoy stanza breaks, but when I first posted these poems the "composition" of word placement was rearranged when I copied it over to the submission box. This poem turned out correctly, but my others did not.
Sorry for the confusion!