#Help needed with imagery

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pine monolith
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Teacher tasked us to write a simple villanelle that doesnt necessarily need strict rhythm, but needs to have good imagery about an emotion pre-chosen. Would be great if someone could suggest something to change or add for better imagery, also critique would be helpful.
Villanelle:
I don't know what i want, but it's not this.
Time is all spent.
Wasted times vanish in a glimpse.

Everything is now in small bits.
Fragments from then.
I don't know what i want, but it's not this.

Times i used to reminisce.
Everything has went.
Wasted times vanish in a glimpse.

Nothing matches, it all conflicts.
It wasn't like this, but now it's the present.
I don't know what i want, but it's not this.

All i see is an eclipse.
Forgotten the antidepressants.
Wasted times vanish in a glimpse.

Hollow like addicts.
This feels pleasant.
I don't know what i want, but it's not this.
Wasted times vanish in a glimpse.

timid crag
timid crag
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Instead of just saying “everything has went,” you might say “everything has slipped like sand through fingers.”

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“Nothing matches, it all conflicts,” you might use something like “Colors bleed together, a canvas of confusion,”

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instead of “pleasant,” consider “syrupy” or “bitterly sweet,”

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"All I see is an eclipse."

Suggestion: "All I see is a shadow's embrace, eclipsing the light."

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"Hollow like addicts."

Suggestion: "Hollow as a forgotten song, echoing in the void."