You really had me tripping: You really had me tripping here:
"Unleashing from its mouth
Magic floods instead
Of fairytale firestorms"
Although my feet are firmly planted on the ground in my clean and sober life, I had a blast wrapping my head around your dazzling, free-flowing, innovative flight.
The word "again" juxtaposed will eternal references was a brilliant choice.
Nice tour of your psyche.
oh that, anyone in: oh that, anyone in particular? It's always first and foremost to myself and secondarily to anyone who has found themselves on either end of the polarisation. For me to write to someone in specific it would have to be a less 'political' topic and definitely not on a poetic but more direct fashion.
You make an astute and clever: You make an astute and clever case for the validity of both styles and everything in between with the words:
"soul of each poet
heart of each poem
elevated in poetry"
I've appreciated a wide variety of styles, and what you described was always the common ground: it simply moved me.
A great opening for a discussion. Deftly penned as always.
The first stanza describes,: The first stanza describes, quite succinctly, the horrible attacks upon the Poetry of T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and Vergil; among many others.
Fanspin fun: I think my favorite factor about your poetry is not only that I get to research new definitions- and thereby receive their ribbon-wrapped playthings of epic insightful clarity- but I actually am drawn to do so because your flow is just that good. I'm curious though, is the title a suggestion to someone specific in mind?
I am not entirely sure I: I am not entirely sure I understand the question, so please forgive me if I answer incorrectly. The phrase "life's three decade measure" leads me to believe you are asking this in view of yourself. Any kind of learning expansion---formal or informal---is worth the time, even when life, like mine, has a six (and almost a half) decade measure.
Viable dream, false hope: A personal question came up for me
Would you consider it worththetime
Or vain to pursue college enrollment
Near a life's three-decade measure-
Thinkst thou might thereby benefit?
Thank you for reading and giving feedback. : Thanks for reading my work and providing feedack, glad to be amongst a community of talented nurturing artists as well. :)
Thanks for relating and the support :): Thanks for the feedback and support. I totally agree acceptance and open minds are essential aspects of unity and support.
Perhaps there is a hope that: Perhaps there is a hope that it will have been picked up in perpetuity by the succeeding generations of war poetry. Thanks most kindly.