Hazy Nights

by Lenny   Jun 22, 2006


Hazy nights, fire warmed
Rain is tapping on the window,

Trickles of happiness,
Filter the lies, the deception,

Ecstasy of unknowing,
Traipse and cloak
In this alternate reality;
This champagne coma--

Bottled love in the form,
Of ignorance.
Sweet, sweet, bliss,
Of this euphoric
And forgotten concept of thought,
Erotic in its inimitability--

Smuggled endorphins,
Stashed and forged:
False happiness
In ignorances game,
The delight in counterfeit joy,
Overhangs the balance of reality,

Addicted to a fiction,
Immersed in your world. . .

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  • 18 years ago

    by Drew Gold

    Sweet! I like the revision a lot more!

  • 18 years ago

    by Drew Gold

    By the way .. the — 's is actually the M-dash, but wouldnt show up. you can also use '--' as an equivalent

  • 18 years ago

    by Drew Gold

    I like it, but it seems a little obscure. my guess is that it's about a night, or a memory, in a relationship where one feigns affection; the other one ignorant of this fact.

    hazy definitely is an apt titleword for this piece. maybe try using more concrete images and examples; i can't put my finger on what exactly i think this might need to stick out more, so to speak.

    first off, i'd suggest not ending every line with a comma. it just seems to me that it hints that every end line is a full stop, and it isnt. I think i'll just do a whole revision of it, and you do whatcha do with my advice.

    Hazy nights, fire warmed
    [comma isn't necessary]

    Rain is tapping patterns on the window,

    [I'd remove patterns, because you later give example of the image, and 'patterns' is kind of jarring/redundant.]

    Trickles of happiness
    Filter the lies, and deception,
    [I'd remove the first lines comma, as it uses the linebreak to bring the sentence to the next line. Also, I'd change 'and deception' to 'the deception', and then add a ';' after it, to give a longer stop and augment flow.]

    Ecstasy of unknowing,
    Traipse and cloak,
    [I'd remove the comma after cloak]

    In this alternate reality;
    This champagne coma—
    Bottled love in the form
    Of ignorance.

    [pretty self explanatory edit of grammar]

    Sweet, sweet, bliss,
    Of this euphoric
    [And] forgotten concept of thought,
    Erotic in its inimitability—

    Smuggled endorphins,
    Stashed and forged:
    False happiness
    In ignorances game,
    The delight in counterfeit joy,
    Overhangs the balance of reality.
    [I'd add a period to give the next lines more emphasis.]
    Addicted to a fiction,
    Immersed in your world. . .

    there it is.. hopefully it wasnt too jumbled.. lata