First, it is an extreme: First, it is an extreme pleasure to have you back. One doesn't realize just what a vital pillar of support and inspiration they have until it is gone, but the deepest sorrow was knowing that you must have been suffering greatly to have been away from your poetic community. I prayed often and I continue to pray with great urgency while you still struggle.
Welcome back! And thank you for finding my latest post.
Not only did you pinpoint the soul of of my work, but you affirmed the nucleus with two expertly insightful and striking analogies, one contemporary and one Biblical. Then, with pristine understanding, you zeroed in on my purpose, my mission, and declared it accomplished. I'm overwhelmed and humbled. How can I begin to thank you?
To my dismay, readers have often misunderstood my work, even connecting it somehow to something sacrilegious, but you don't read more into my poems than was intended, look for devils around every corner or skew my words according to a narrow belief system. You simplify, illuminate and appreciate.
Just what I needed. Like "the cosmos going about its business" my gratitude knows no bounds.
What an effective visual! It: What an effective visual! It has delicacy and dignity, yet still smolders. The illustrious Basho is nodding and wondering: now why didn't I think of that?
Your words and your energy: Your words and your energy pulse with the same indignation I often feel when the farcical realities of our time hit hard. You give a voice, unflinching and resolute, to the outrage every sane person should feel in the face of tyranny. We need you!
We get the whole picture in: We get the whole picture in shimmering and minimal stanzas: the allure, the glorious obsession, the fulfillment. And it all began with a glimpse of beauty and ends with . . . well, that's an open-ended question you shrewdly injected.
A brilliant poem of attraction.
I love the wry wit behind the: I love the wry wit behind the word "random" when all the snippets of events, in sets of three, are highly significant, urgent and emotionally important in the grand scheme of things. Putting "up memories with thumbtacks" adds up to a meaningful relationship, long distance or otherwise.
An instructive and cleverly composed view of life.
I'm delighted that you're: I'm delighted that you're making up for lost time and posting so many new poems including this rousing and victorious tribute to those who still inspire the faithful today.
No doubt the blessed gang will be waiting for you with open arms!
wow thanks so much for this: wow thanks so much for this comment!
I actually came up with this just last night while doing a bible study with my husband and father in law!
So pleased it came out even better than I hoped!
I am so very grateful for: I am so very grateful for PostPoems, and to its administrator Jason, for this home on the internet. I have been here over twenty years---having come as a refugee from the StarliteCafe and its many rules and restrictions. I hope to have a place here until I am called from this world.
Your poem reminds me of the: Your poem reminds me of the miracle of the Christmas Star, and the several starwatchers who---having preserved the Biblical prophecy of Balaam among them (according to Romanos the Melodist)---traveled to Bethlehem to find the Newlyborn King Whose Star had risen ahead of the sun ("In the East," they called it). This poem speaks of the eclipse as a miracle, and so it it, for the Cosmos is, in essence, a massive clock of many parts---each of them precisely timed and balanced by the StarMaker. Thank you for posting this.