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very beautiful :     To soar above the burning pain of loss and to remain intact   To waltz with sylphs, adorned in white frost floating – light as air amid diamond studded trees – glistening in the heavens   It is quite the image to behold.   A very beautiful one.   And a very lovely tribute – to your mom.     And I read it, while listening to the sonata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4591dCHe_sE          

  I don’t know if it’s:   I don’t know if it’s something in our blood, because we are of an older generation… or because we simply live in a time, with very little reflection of the moment or the previous moment.   But it seems there is something lost in the translation of things these days.   And I’m not talking about the grand/magnificent things… but the little simple moments that string our lives together… and the joy of recalling those simple moments… those little joys of discovery…   like that time we talked about ham radios, and the days of there being a Radio Shack in every town… back when people collected and assembled and erected equipment and towers – just to communicate with one another…   and nowadays we have communication technology that we couldn’t even of dreamed of… and yet that Science-fiction/discovery-feeling of reaching out into the void – the Outer Limits – The Twilight Zone – just to connect with other souls – seems nearly absent.   And I wonder where it went.   Because I would certainly like to see a revival of that sort of spirit… especially in regard to poetry and science and discovery… and just open soul to soul communication in general… without a flick left or flick right two second hook… just because it’s better – for a human world.      

This is certainly a: This is certainly a perspective I have never encountered in my reading.  I was wondering what you might think of Dante's poem, Divine Comedy (the second and third canticles) and T. S. Eliot's poem, Ash Wednesday, especially the second through fourth sections? 

Thank you for your kind words: Thank you for your kind words and the way they validate my purpose in this series.  I was amazed to find that particular line in Vergil; but, when one considers that even the greatest ancient Poet believed that Love is in us all (and therefore, all Loves become not only equal but related in kinship), I cannot omit referring to his poetic authority in my poems.  Because I lack Latin (except for the handful of words I have picked up over the decades), I know far less about Vergil than I could wish.  But I am very glad to know the little that I do know about him.  In Rome, he moved among the highest circles of power without compromising to any of them.  In our society, he would likely be persecuted, shunned, or ostracized as a "weirdo."

If there's some imaginative: If there's some imaginative new way for you to construct an engaging poem, you'll find it.   This was a pure pleasure to read (or rather, overhear) and a less crafty wordsmith might have fumbled it, not made the snippets of conversation so realistic and certainly not even conceived of that bombshell ending that tied it all together with seamless panache.   It was truly cunning, the way you interlaced stories that could have been ripped from today's headlines with topics relevant to the ancient time period, certainly adding to the element of surprise later.   Pure genius. Love it! 

There are skilled advocates: There are skilled advocates and there are skilled poets, but when the two talents are combined, I can feel Heaven open.   For too long the very purpose of our existence ("Love, the Poet wrote, indwells all of us the same") has been defiled by certain words, but now an eloquent voice stands between irrational fear and loving people who just want to express their purpose in peace.   Some may be tired of hearing "love is love" but that doesn't make it any less true. Fortunately, there are Poets who bring forth truth clothed in new garments of beauty such as this, and I feel hope.   A resplendent and evocative call for compassion.  

Thank you for the kind words: Thank you for the kind words and the visit, it's always a pleasure seeing you here.