A Public Garden In Madrid Comments
No grass. The ground is bare -either stone or gravel-
Strewn with empty bottles, litter, old newspapers.
Trees, deprived of foliage, with no shade but their trunks'.
Hard wooden benches and a few long stone ledges.
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Well i love the detail and imagery and stanzas just as they are. I wouldn't chang e a thing! Should Poe have abbreviated the Raven? Sad, your brothers leaving, I'll bet he had a lot more to share. Such a great portrait he paints with words. His Art lives on.
This poem has a huge amount of unnecessary and inconsequential descriptions. But the final stanza is poignant and fascinating. The poem would pack more of a punch if it were distilled into 2-3 stanzas.
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8/1/2025 11:35:00 AM # 1.0.0
Interesting theme micheal.I'm a fan of your poems