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somersaults and spells

by Julie Adams

young gypsie found catatonic
"fortune left untold"
reads the headline

twists and turns
render me dazed;
unconscious of
danger
risk
dancing with me again
flirting under a pale moon
butterflies awake, aware, alive
exposed heart does somersaults
within

before you, i lay
unconscious and still,
awaiting sweet lips
to free me
of this
spell

09/15/2002

Posted on 09/15/2002
Copyright © 2024 Julie Adams

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by S.J. Tyler on 05/21/06 at 01:29 PM

I can see why this one has made it into this folder. There are just some little elements that stop it from feeling complete yet. If I may make some suggestions and comments, I'd say that I think the issue may lie in the lack of interconnectivity between the stanzas. The middle one could stand alone, I think. I very much like the first stanza as well, I'm just not sure how it related to the others. I think that if it did, it would bring the poem up a notch, because starting out with the scenario of the gypsy is intriguing and I think I expected there to be more about that. I'm not sure if I'm expressing my thoughts fully, but basically, I think that all the elements of the poem seperately, are wonderfully written and bring the reader into worlds filled with tangible emotions. However, I'm not sure how one gets from one emotion to the next, especially with the first stanza that seems to lead into a different poem than the one it does. I'm not sure why the narrator would want to be released from a spell that she seems to bask in, in the previous stanza. I can see elements of her feeling "dazed" and in danger but there still seems to be an underlying enjoyment of it all, with words like dancing, flirting and butterflies. If the narrator is the gypsy laying unconscious, then the middle section doesn't seem to work, in my eyes. I can see many connections between the three stanzas that do work, but not one that includes all three at once. I'm not sure if what I'm saying will be helpful to you at all, or just confusing. Hopefully, the former. Keep up the great work, I love your visuals.

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