intricately-ordinary's avatar
I had to wait a while to respond to this comment(s) because it's just something really wonderful for me, knowing how you saw it and what you pulled from it. I took out the ohmygod in that stanza. It was a lot rawer before editing, I agree, it didn't fit in anymore. I'm so glad you felt it was "philosophically beautiful" and that it was broken well. And that you picked up on the dancing mentions in the first and last stanzas, which was why I kept the poem the same layout it was instead of inverting the ending. And thank you for telling me about how you were watching All That Jazz, too. It was really interesting to look at the song, then back at my poem again with new eyes. I definitely see where you pulled all that from. And I cut out the middle line in the stanza you were talking about, too.

Thank you for all your feedback and interpretations, it really means the world to me :heart:
YogaTeacher's avatar
I believed I had answered this, but apparently not:

It flows well, from beginning to end, becoming itself in a way... I'm glad I could help. (It reads a lot differently on its own, and I like it alone as it's own thing too).