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Hold Up

Hold up!
Wait there

See the people
stop and stare

standing frozen
hand in pot

cleverly guising
his shifty plot

slowly moving
trying to leave

surely he see's it
the bread in your sleeve.

About This Poem

Review Request Intensity: I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back

Editing Stage: Editing - rough draft

About the Author

Region, Country: New York, U.S., USA

Favorite Poets: RobeccaJane Lee-Murchison, Albert Friedman, Edgar Allen Poe, EE Cummings, Charles Dickens

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BlueDemon77

BlueDemon77

13 years 1 month ago

It paints a picture

It tells me alot (the picture flows outside the words). I see the scene you are setting and the only things I would say make things a little unclear is the use of "guising". I know often nouns are used in verb form but it did distract me in this piece. Kudos to the effective use of minimalism to paint a tableau.

Ron
Blue Demon77

Tommi Cordial

Tommi Cordial

13 years 1 month ago

thank you

I'm glad you noticed the metaphor but did you notice the theft of the word? i sneaked it in not took it out. Only a poet would know it :)