I'm participating in a contest .. And we need to present 4 poems, 2 in Danish and 2 in English .. I need some help reviewing the english ones (do they make sense, gramma etc)
any comments good or bad will be appriciated! if it stinks you are free to tell me, since publishing a crappy poem would be a bad idea! ^_^
here goes:
The Notion of an Expectation
The present moment vaporizes in the notion of an expectation,
when singular dreams engulfs the dying seconds,
so that you, in the end, are left with a dreaming expectation,
in the instant that you had a notion,
about a certain times mortality.
We all count on stagnant moments,
frozen in notions and dreams,
on an eternal passion which will shine its presence,
saving us from time-emphasized losses,
and enclose us in a self-satisfying view
of our own transience.
All in all we are quite optimistic.
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The Complete Human Being
The emptiness we feel in others presence,
is the symptom of the actual existence we lack.
That feeling which is left unsaid, is the result of our own unattainability.
Stirring and stagnant we put our own existence into perspective,
against the emptiness, against the very idea
that constitutes the complete human being.
We are the living contrast,
who hate our own beloved existence,
we are the words we create, but in creating them
we form ourselves,
so our complete human being is a product
of an incomplete comprehension, a fragmented mind
which tries desperatly to remake itself.
Like a broken mirror trying to reflect the world,
we describe it to feel whole.
We are the complete human being!
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and there you have it .. unfortunalty my english skills have eroded over time so I'm not as confident in my abilities anymore .. which is why I need your help!
- Rosbjerg