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Tinnitus

Tinnitus chants more
music through doorways,
drafting feathers
distort the ear spine,
shaping uproars,
shifting the sand-
castles where silence
cradles wordlessness.

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Structured: Western
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This poem is my first attempt writing in a Fornyrðislag style.
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Comments

about the style, but you write about tinnitus as though from experience; if so, I feel bad for you. I have tinnitus and it is every bit as bad as you say. Good writing, it held my interest all the way through and was a good read. ~ Geezer.
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Tinnitus..... I have mild case of it from the thunder of guns and cacophony of construction over the years.Those last 2 lines... I'd write "where silence once cradled wordlessness" because there is no more silence.

I like the title,
You language use is generally good,
The cadence is good,
I can relate; tinnitis is an old enemy.
Beginning and ending are good, and you stay on track with the poem and meaning, staying within the parameters you have set yourself.
I do not like this line:
"drown the ear spine"
because I don't understand it.

poetic structures of old germanic alliteration are gennerally not very easy to utilize in modern english...but you've done it.
Good poetry. Keep them coming.

Respectfully, Race

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It seems there are six different Fornyrðislag styles in Old Norse poems. I’m wondering which you are emulating. Congrats on a nice piece, and congrats on attempting to write in a thousand year old style.

It likely makes more sense phonetically if the poems were written in the old Norse runes.

I have studied runes for many years now. A very interesting language of conitexts.

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