This is an exquisitely: This is an exquisitely beautiful poem of love, longing and desire, and it is one that deserves to be read repeatedly. Your coy pen name brought me to your poems on this site, but your verbal elegance and emotional candor have made this poem a real reading experience, and I will be back to visit it more than once.
Due to my medical situation,: Due to my medical situation, I have fallen behind in my reading. This poem definitely deserves to be read more than once.
That's an incredible honor: That's an incredible honor coming from someone who is a brilliant aficionado of everything poetry. So humbled and grateful. God bless.
I had to stop by when I saw: I had to stop by when I saw the comment on this and I certainly wasn't disappointed. So glad I didn't miss this ingeniously constructed study of life's phases and our agonizingly stoic reactions (or lack of reactions) to them.
A superb, powerfully understated and fiercely poignant expression.
Bravo, fine poet!
Very few poets can capture: Very few poets can capture the dichotomy of relationships (or anything, actually) with such startling artistic statements. As always, an arresting presentation of rare creative power. Much enjoyed!
Thank you for that: Thank you for that comment---I always appreciate hearing from you---and yes, I agree with you: I, too, dislike Putin, for many reasons, but unlike Lenin, Stalin, and the other Dead Reds, he has allowed the Orthodox Church to resume its open ministry to the soul of Russia. And the Orthodox Church canonized the Romanov martyrs and has provided them the honorale burial that they deserved, and of which they had been robbed by Lenin and his merry thugs. Thanks again for commenting.
The perspective that began: The perspective that began with Vergil and inhabited the poems of Wallace Stevens is now well served and conveyed in and through your Poetry. It is a great and privileged pleasure to watch your continuing expansion of your contribution to it.