Joe Bonamassa:
Where do I: Joe Bonamassa:
Where do I begin? What you did with words was what this great musician can do with sound. I mean that. This is astounding in its crystallization of the musical experience. I don't dare try to isolate any specific line because it is poetic calligraphy that sweeps, swirls and plunges with the same stream of magnificence.
Still, I don't know where to begin . . .
Sitting on My Stoop:
Your manipulation of imagery that turns an ordinary scene into a surging, "scraping" and roaring ocean was ingenious. You sorceress of words, you are awesome.
Center of the Park:
Another everyday scene transformed into enchantment in your talented hands. There's a bustle of bright and whimsical activity that turns particularly charming with your conversation with the birds, those adorable interlopers in your "happy spot". You added a clever hint of self-realization with the words "Centered within", suggesting that all the natural beauty of this sanctuary was an inner as well as outer experience. Wonderful.
I've Been: To the Rodin Museum in Philly (under the gates of hell). My daughter went to The Rodin Musee in Paris. Missing the Thinker in front of Detroit Institute of Arts.
Lady A
Poetic High: .
So many places to avoid. I like Ginsberg, but... Bongo is not enuff to attract an old Bible toter. Drugs are about to be legal in Detroit. How easily led or negated those free to zone out. Thou shalt not smoke dope. The 11th Commandment would be ineffective like theft and murder and coveting.
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To each his own freedom - the money flows upward and you get high and broke. No thanks for me, but enjoy the beat of the bongo. Never got into Kerouac.
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The murder industry certainly: The murder industry certainly has a lot of powerful co-conspirators. The "shills" rake in the "shillings" while "the innocents" are just a fleeting thought on the bottom line. A witty and defiant call to compassion.
A cleverly structured shout: A cleverly structured shout out to a person of integrity (or it could be interpreted as Gaia Herself) who can no longer bear our reckless plundering and ravaging. The alliteration of "sh" was particularly meaningful because it is reminiscent of an ocean sound which connected me to the grandeur of our imperiled seas. Very effective.
Despite being so badly: Despite being so badly treated by Nero, Sporus was with him when he suicided after the Senate had voted the death penalty for that bestial emperor. Thank you for your kind comment.