All Comments on 'Chameleon'

The first stanza is good but distracting. You use a rhyme scheme there and then abandon all rhyming in the rest of the poem. It would have been stronger if you had carried on as you had started.

I think the previous poster is partly right. But the last stanza is also a rhythm and rhyme structured one that works well with the first one. It's the middle, although effective, that might improve.

I disagree. My difficulty was not with the abandonment of a rhyme scheme but with the change in formatting to shorter lines. It could be argued that this is to force a disconnect upon the reader, but, paradoxically, for short lines to work there must be flow between them.

Mirrors, like people, are not always what they appear. Witness the car mirror on the far side from the driver, with its distorted view. A truthful mirror some will decry for presenting what we'd rather not see.

Mirrors, like people, are not always what they appear. Witness the car mirror on the far side from the driver, with its distorted view. A truthful mirror some will decry for presenting what we'd rather not see.

This poem was mentioned in the Archival Review thread, in a picking through Lit's archive of over 35,000 poems.

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is not agreed by others, TK U MLJ LV NV