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The houses are haunted


By white night-gowns.


None are green,


Or purple with green rings,


Or green with yellow rings,


Or yellow with blue rings.


None of them are strange,


With socks of lace


And beaded ceintures.


People are not going


To dream of baboons and periwinkles.


Only, here and there, an old sailor,


Drunk and asleep in his boots,


Catches Tigers


In red weather.

Get 10 points by writing your views about this very short poem!?
not bad . . i'd actually give it a 5 or 6 on a scale of 1 to 10.





I like some of the imagery, and I like the easy flow of it.
Reply:Very interesting and colorful!
Reply:Daughling! It's simply divine! I just love ghostly fashion shows!
Reply:It's cute.
Reply:That is ok a little surreal, needs more body and substance, try to go back to the same topic at least three times like the chorus of a song even if it is one or two words keep going back to them to give relevance to your other topics or genres.
Reply:It is an intresting poem but I like it athough I don't really get it with all the green and purple rings or whatever
Reply:Sort of reminds me of Dr. Suess...


Interesting.
Reply:I really love how your poem is saying that in this world that no one can be diverse and as long as they are not they will not be labeled as strange. and how with all the customary thoughts and feelings every one will dream the same and how all the gowns are the same. and the houses are haunted by the thought of the insanity. and the sailor has to intoxicate himself to feel that sense of calmness and security.
Reply:Views:the night-gowns is connected to butcher,the rest prays for peace.But the problem is how to be peace whit butcher.
Reply:very, very good. i thik it is deep, odd, strange, but very awesome. wish i could write like that
Reply:What was the author smoking??
Reply:sorry i think it is cr@p, guess i'm not getting the 10 points eh?
Reply:a little different, but deeply awesome.
Reply:doesn't make me think or evoke any emotion...sort of confusing.
Reply:Very awesome! I love it! Captures a mood that I haven't seen in a poem before!
Reply:It sounds like a poem about Halloween and ghost without there ghostly figure they are going to dream about goblins you are by the wharfs and the sailors are drunk and a sleep and he catches tigers in blood in his dream well guess that is about all I think your poem was different it just takes someone to figure it out and I'M sure it wasn't me good luck with your poem writing
Reply:It's very... I mean to say that it's very... Well, I don't know what it is, exactly, but I definitely like it. It's beautiful and mysterious, and it's one of those poems where you're never quite sure of what you're reading, and yet in the back of your mind you feel that you understand it perfectly. In that sense it reminds me a lot of Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll, because it doesn't seem to make sense, but you can't help but fall in love with the ideas formed in those odd, mysterious words.
Reply:I only liked the phrase "asleep in his boots"...





I'm sorry... it should be more deep... try to look for interesting mixtures of words... like the boots part.





If you want it to be funny, be witty... look for better words to describe, unusual ones.





And if you want it to sound dark..... look for obscure words that make you shiver.





There's more where that came from, I know it. But the best practice is to keep writing... don't stop and don't over analyze everything, keep working on it.
Reply:I've taken MANY text analysis classes, and sorry, your poem does not make any sense. It DOES have interesting metaphors. I think it could use some revision.
Reply:The title seems to have no relationship and the content seems unrelated to houses haunted by white night gowns, most of it tellls what features the night gowns don't have? This is a weakly structured poem that didn't tell me much of anything, with more or less unrelated images, and what's the point exactly, I just didn't get it?
Reply:annoying freeverse and no real beat. Interesting vocabulary and not as annoying as most depressed teenagers who ryme "Fear" with "Tear" in every poem they write.