You fashioned a glorious: You fashioned a glorious crescendo of power that represents an inner world mirroring the one simultaneously raging without. An intense, thought-provoking and brilliantly condensed journey. Keep shining, Great Bard!
.: Very much appreciated!
One good turn deserves another...
PP is the best poetry community online...
It gives me the opportunity to meet talented people like yourself!
May your ink well never run dry!
W.
Thank you so much..: Thank you so much for your kind words. Let me return the compliment. I just read Genitstalgia.
Wow! You have a talent for writing erotica! Really well done!
I have been reading poetry: I have been reading poetry for fifty years as of this past April, and I have never seen a poem on that particular subject. And the counter indicates over three thousand six hundred readings of this poem---that speaks far more about it than my poor words can.
In nine short lines, you: In nine short lines, you create a sense of foreboding horror, which us centered around the fifth and sixth lines. There, the poem defines the place as "an eerie loveland," and describes the "holy people" who "tear earth's womb." Within the context of the poem, those otherwise ordinary phrases become wildly charged with an implicit horror which resonates from them through the entire poem. Even in a second reading, the horror does not diminish.
Thank you for reading with: Thank you for reading with such a luminous and precise eye. You got it! I'm always thrilled to receive the impressions of such a gifted and insightful wordcrafter.
.: the reading/listening/viewing experience is always so highly subjective...
From person to person.....or even from the state of mind when you read or re-read....
A “faces come out in the rain” type of situation...
in my mind, when i sing this, and even while I penned it, It was with in a “crooner” vocal style.
Long sustains and carrying the notes add to that affect, i suppose...
but I hope it moved you in some way.
thanks for the read
W.
Kinda brought me back to: Kinda brought me back to "whisper to a scream" in one way but this is its own song in so much more. The chains make for an unbroken melody. That perhaps alludes to another song from way back when. And yet this is its own voice and organic whole and brings the earth and the sky and everything in between, dark and light, hope and despair: very well proportioned!
Not as good as can be, my: Not as good as can be, my fault really. But there is always that one day that needs to be smited by today only, that's all we got. And yeah, "over ripe" is one of those beauties of vaguery in language that open up interpretation!
Excellent : Gain and flutter are guitar terms...do you yourself play?
The usage of “over ripe” could means several different things left open to interp.
I had fun exploring both contexts!
over-ripe meaning re-worked to the point of thnking to hard and dsiplaying an over worked piece...
i.e. “Stinking of the lamp” an expression coined by over-use of an oil lamp dring an all-nighter.
or over ripe poets, meaning poets in need of a shower and shave...
there are a few that tickle the brain, and keep it from smoothing over.
very well done.
W.
That is quite encompassing as: That is quite encompassing as language embraces the spaces where there may be no words or understanding, comfort or hope. There is beauty and refuge there as well. This is such a gem to the reading heart.