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beaconzbard commented on: PRETENDING by beaconzbard 38 weeks 2 days* ago* It's now on YouTube: You can now watch/hear me read this one at: https://youtube.com/shorts/L2fgaPC_C7A [ go to comment ]
arqios commented on: prank by humanfruit 38 weeks 2 days* ago* vampiric in feel : vampiric in feel [ go to comment ]
Teytonon commented on: I'm not that strong. by GabulousGabby 38 weeks 2 days* ago* I must disagree with..: I must disagree with your self-assessment. I would say you're very strong. I'll tell you why. You've placed this poem in a folder you call 'Dark and Moody'. You could have called it 'Mark and Doody'. Rather than go for the cheap laugh and saying something a five year old would find amusing, you stuck to your guns and named it what you felt was more appropriate to the subject at hand. Bravo! [ go to comment ]
uninvited_1 commented on: confusion, illusion, delusion by insignificant 38 weeks 3 days* ago* Nice play on word rhyme: Nice play on word rhyme here. [ go to comment ]
uninvited_1 commented on: Life No Longer Matters by ramonathompsont 38 weeks 3 days* ago* Nicely done: Very creative. I had the melody of the song in my head the whole time I was reading it. Nicely done. [ go to comment ]
beaconzbard commented on: I SHOULD HAVE FLED by beaconzbard 38 weeks 3 days* ago* It's now on YouTube: You can watch/hear me read this one at: https://youtube.com/shorts/p5uXNFUm2o4 [ go to comment ]
wemni commented on: Me, Myself, & That Other Lady by allets 38 weeks 4 days* ago* To allets: Interesting words....intriguing. thank you.! [ go to comment ]
Teytonon commented on: Don't Get It by Dreamer_2271 38 weeks 5 days* ago* Hi. I happened to notice..: Hi. I happened to notice you published this poem on January 12, 2012. It's now February 2024. Twelve years have passed. It's my sincere hope that they've gotten some by now. If they're still not getting any after 12 years, the issue may be psychological in nature. Therapy may be the answer. I can recommend a few if you're interested. Thank you. [ go to comment ]
J-C4113d commented on: A Revisory Argument by satishverma 38 weeks 5 days* ago* I love your poems in this: I love your poems in this style. The last stanza of this poem compares bleak irony to hope's iridescent and effulgent showers. [ go to comment ]
osiriss- commented on: You Cannot Touch the Fogs by satishverma 38 weeks 6 days* ago* I feel something has taken place: Ago - it was only 2 days worth of crap we wasted his time while he played us for cap he is not looking for the ultimate answer to make the world save he is looking for quickest route to exit the entire play i have already been on other shows [ go to comment ]
S74rw4rd commented on: Love Beneath The Upper Sky [Repost] by S74RW4RD 38 weeks 6 days* ago* You know how I love your: You know how I love your interpretations of my poems; each and every comment you make is precious, salutary, and instructional to me. But this one, of all of them, encapsultates and summarizes not only the poem but, I think, the purpose for writing poems like these and for launching them out there to cyberspace with the hope they will be read and appreciated. And, with your words, you have shown that this poem has been read and appreciated. A comment from PostPoems' leading Poet is always an event, and I feel very privileged, blessed, and grateful that you chose this particular poem to read and to comment. Thank you so much, Patricia, for this kindness, and for your continuing friendship. [ go to comment ]
patriciajj commented on: Desolate and Perfect Now by patriciajj 38 weeks 6 days* ago* I'm always delighted when you: I'm always delighted when you take the time to create an anatomy of one of my poems, complete with its intent and methodology. That's quite a luxury, a prized gift, for any writer! I just can't thank you enough for such a detailed deconstruction and such accurate insight into the poem's purpose. We're all so blessed to have you as a pivotal and cherished part of our community. I can apply your own eloquent words to my opinion of the comments you grace us with: He "makes us better than we have been". My deepest gratitude. [ go to comment ]
patriciajj commented on: Love Beneath The Upper Sky [Repost] by S74RW4RD 38 weeks 6 days* ago* So much immersive drama,: So much immersive drama, atmosphere and enthralling fantasy is encapsulated here that I can't praise it enough. Foremost, it is a ravishing story of unconditional, self-sacrificing devotion and acceptance that alludes to spiritual realities but manifests in the physical. The concept is explosively beautiful: an angelic yet humanoid being gives up the vastness, the bliss, the freedom of "the upper sky" (his very wings) where "He knew the songs the night wind often sings" and enters the care-laden world of a human . . . for love. Your style, a light touch that relies on consuming slice-of-life emotions for its power, works miraculously against the entrancing backdrop of an otherworldly milieu. You knew instinctively how much to reveal and how to reveal it. For instance, lesser writers might indulge in lavish descriptions (I would be tempted!) while you knew that "crimson sand of this vast beach" was ambiance enough while showcasing the wonders of true "humanity" in the heart of a creature with folded wings and unsteady feet. You've written many poems that I considered your best, but this, at least to date, might be the best of your best. Certainly my favorite. Standing ovation! [ go to comment ]
georgeschaefer commented on: IF IN FACT by georgeschaefer 39 weeks 1 day* ago* If you stream you can filter: If you stream you can filter out most of the manipulative ads. thanks for reading and commenting [ go to comment ]
S74rw4rd commented on: Desolate and Perfect Now by patriciajj 39 weeks 1 day* ago* As this poem begins, one: As this poem begins, one reading it for the first time will be inclined to think it is a dismal poem. The poem begins with a silenced Earth, certainly from a cataclysmic event (although the Poet does not define that event); then she brings in a grayness, a dismal condition so gray the wind becomes a part of the stone. She tells us that river mists become like dreams of Vesuvius---perhaps one of the most effective metaphors of cataclysm in human history. Mention of Vesuvius, like mentioning, say, the Titanic, is a metonomy of disaster and cataclysm. Then she uses a word I consider bone-chilling in the context of this poem . . . "iron-clad." But then, within the iron-clad condition, she detects a gleaming of hope. But she does not reject the iron-clad situation, although she describes it further as a soundless opera, a symphonic tomb, and a sacrament of ice (in these concepts, her perspective leans---I think---toward that of Wallace Stevens, especially in his poem, "The Snow Man"). But she finds in these parts the presence of God, and she recognizes that these are also parts of the Cosmos. The Cosmos contains things we often do not want to consider: rogue asteroids that can wipe out millions of dinosaurs; neutonr stars that can devour even light, and crush everything in their grasp to something less than the particles within an atom. These are also parts of the Cosmos, and they correspond to those symphonic tombs. But, in being able to recognize the existence of these things, we demonstrate our sentience. A houseplant knows neither neutron stars nor rogue asteroids, and doesn't care because it doesn't know that it doesn't know. It is in our cognizance of depair, even when seeming iron-clad, that we can find gleamings of hope and joy: this is a spiritual sentience that, I personally believe, is alone in the created Cosmos. But it is an awareness, and also can be an appreciation, of sentient existence. And that is part of the vocation that I have suggested, elsewhere, with which we have been tasked by the Creator: to explain the Cosmos to itself. In this poem, as in all of her Cosmis poems, Patricia does this; and by allowing us to hear her explanations, she makes us better than we have been. [ go to comment ]