I never enabled the comments on my poetry blog, because damn it, my poems are just too sensitive to have the comment sitting right there, sitting right there at the feet of the poems. Looking at them.
But by all means leave your comments here! Comment on any specific poem, or on a specific group of them, or just on the whole swathe at once. Because owing to that slight interpolation of distance I've set up, you can feel free to be as UNSPARINGLY CRITICAL as you please, in all your comments here, and my poems won't be the slightest bit put out! They never read my regular blog.
Poems can be kind of snooty.
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Sacred Stones: A lesson in meter.
Thanks jorg! Glad you like it, I ended up really pleased with that one. Kind of a fairy tale.
I really liked your latest on Posey. It was easy to read, fun to picture in my head. I really needed that right now. Thank you Joe.
Well hearing that is just what I needed right now! Thank you Anna - glad I could help (glad we could each help!).
Yeah, I noticed it's been a little heavy in there lately? I thought I'd lighten the mood a bit by shooting my mouth off!
Plus who knows, maybe the gov't will take me up on the proposal. I'd make a great Secretary of Poetry.
"already slept forever"
Birthing one's self...YES!! Remarkable imagery. The salt water/womb metaphor. The pearl produced by adversity. I would have used the word nacre, though, which coats the sand to produce, ultimately, the pearl. Nacre seems to be the tears of the oyster, doesn't it? I really loved this poem. Thank you for sharing.
You're welcome!
Thanks for the comment.
People who always only ever sleep the same hours miss out on a lot of cool stuff.
Of course...people like me who have no problem sleeping 16 hours at a stretch given half a chance, also miss out on some stuff most likely!
I feel like the beach. Yes, the beach, I think. Who cares if the sun comes up behind me?
pleasantly paranoid: True. What I need is a stalker... no not really
REALLY not really!
It's to l.o.l., man.
I've been reading your poetry for about a month. You never disappoint! Love all of them, but "Leave Us Not" really rocked me.
I'm no poet, but I do write short stories; and when I'm in need of inspiration, I come here. It's a well that never seems to run dry.
Thank you.
Sharon
Thank you, Sharon!
I love short stories - a truly undervalued medium in the canon of literature! I'm working on a short-story collection myself.
At the rate I'm going, look for it to be done about 2035.
So many of my favorite words . . . I'm especially fond of paradoxical and epiphany.
As for felicity, it means HAPPINESS, of course. Easy, if you know Latin.
I don't know Latin (well, only a bit), but the 19th century novelists that I'm passionately fond of use the word a lot.
Thank you! The words in that one are kind of sharp!
I like sharp words, for some things.
I thought "felicity" meant something like hitting on the right word, too? But happiness is perhaps better than that. One would think. Still, there's nothing quite like hitting on the right word!
Art: "Hey baby."
Felicity: "Hi."
"Yeah, polish it off, and lick
it clean - but your soul knows where your mind has been."
superb.
Mel ...
hehehe! Yeah, I like that one too. Thanks Mel!
I should note, not necessarily apropos of that one, but in general of songs, poems:
I'm not always the "I" in the song. I could very well be the other person. Most of my most vicious quips are stealthily self-directed.
Huh. Maybe that's less of a comment, and more part of a post.
As I'm from Texas, and obsessed with apples at the moment, this poem just seemed to jump off the page at me. The interesting use of "chip" and "block" made me think that the inheritance you were speaking of did not just pertain to apples.
Bee! You don't miss much, as far as I can tell. And from your stories about your kids I'd guess that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree in that regard!
:-)
slake is a good word. i will use it three times in a sentence this week.
Thanks for the comment, Peau! I agree - "slake"'s a good one!
Sometimes isn't it frustrating not knowing who to thank for specific bits of the English language? Although - the Oxford English Dictionary does its best thorough job to trace back each word to its earliest known usages. I bet they could compile a slim, interesting volume of just the words where they're pretty sure the earliest known usage was also the person who coined it!
There'd be a lot of internetty stuff I'm sure, and also a lot of sciencey stuff going back a ways, but I bet they'd have plenty of regular words too going back all the way to Shakespeare. He'd probably get his own section!
Anyhow. I'd buy it. Maybe "slake" would be in there!
I doubt it, though. It's got that "mists of time" ring to it.
Re: "Lined Up By Eye".... wonderful, thanks.
You are welcome! Glad you liked it.
And thank you, for the idea!
Wow. I need to cool off after reading your carnal poem. I hope that those books that you've burned to ash and dust are all part of you now.
Tee-hee, Bee!!
Yes, I do believe they are part of me. Of course, a book is immortal as long as there are copies out there! I do sometimes feel the need to purchase another copy and burn it up afresh.
I like your voice.
Do you ever read Billy Collins?
Not that you're like him ...
it's just that appreciation for everyday life and the layers of empathy in the first several poems I read that made me think of some of his work.
I like your voice.
Thanks Sarah! Wait until I get some SONGS up!
That will cure you of liking my voice. Ahem.
Billy Collins, I don't believe I have! Could you recommend a place to start me looking? A collection of his, a particular poem, that would be a good entree to his work?
Often I rush off willy-nilly on a recommend - I always seem to pick the least representative place to start.
Not Settle: YES!!!
I really enjoyed your poetry about time.
And I wanted to say..."me, too."
Hey poetry punk. U ever now hear this Conan the Barbarian. He first appeared in a fradulant set of poems about a melancholy king warrior nameD - Conan.
Yeah and about 150 years b$ our mentally weak friend and almost great storyteller Robert E. Howard took that down.
All of 'em pal. That's right, left, UpSide yo head and ring around your Purple Rose of TeXaS
Anonymously trUly Yors following Your xxxZZZooo.kicked.whatever
:)
Re: To Say It...
That was carved to perfection Joe.
(I just wanted to say that, four what it's worth)
Aw thanks, Mel!
That was originally going to be a considerably longer poem, but suddenly it said: "STOP!"
"Go no further."
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