Great poem! Reminds me when I was in high school.: Great poem! Reminds me when I was in high school. Everybody knew, English was always the first class you had each day. We all knew it. English. First class. Every day. But then they changed it. No more English first class. For two mornings, after math!
This spare and expertly: This spare and expertly constructed social commentary hit me hard. I'm still haunted by the unyielding self-righteousness of the church at a time when a family desperately needed compassion, and how that outrage effected a new generation.
I'm rarely impacted this much by a poem. I love the blunt eloquence and concise power of it. First rate work. Perfection.
Hi.: Hi. Thank you for responding. Did you have a chance to read anything I have done? Curious to hear what you think. You're a very good writer if you don't mind me saying so. I would like to chat more, but I see by your name this is not a good time. What?
Amy Sisson Riberdy = Amy is in bed, ssorry.
You need to do something about that extra s. It's messing the whole thing up!
I was spellbound throughout: I was spellbound throughout this ominous story about a game that is certainly no joke. Your flair for eloquently sinister drama kept the lines rolling fast while the suggestion of real peril at the end added some shivers and mystery.
Well-written and engaging. Enjoyed!
Your talent for transferring: Your talent for transferring emotion blazes bright in this haunting and captivating expression. Using the night as an enthralling illustration of existential dread, profound sorrow at the passage of time and inevitable endings worked beautifully, and, as always, I thoroughly enjoyed your shrewd style and startling phrases.
Highly evocative artistry.
I'm so glad you brought back: I'm so glad you brought back this treasure and shared it like water in the desert. I wanted to cheer at the end of every life-altering line in your brilliant, condensed life manual that pretty much sums up my personal curriculum (not always easily learned) in the last few years.
And the title: you couldn't have found a better fit.
With sparkling dexterity of language, you invited me to take another crash course in what is most important and return to my true self.
Thank you, poetic sage.
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
Thank you for that well: Thank you for that well thought out perspective. I agree with you. And I was quite pleased to see Outer Limits mentioned. That series in the early sixties (not the reworked series of the nineties) sparked my interest in astronomy, which has never fully left me. I have a screen saver that shows each of the star fields that were shown as the end credits rolled. And I often listen to both of the opening themes on youtube (I like Lubin's best).
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.
Are you the poet…: Are you the poet who's known as 'gentle'?
I notice you live in Canada, eh?
I hope you don't think that I am mental
You may think I'm much too sentimental
But I guess I must have been born that way
Hope you're not a person who's judgmental
You think it's more than coincidental
We haven't met each other till today?
Or maybe it is just accidental
May I ask a favor of you, gentle?
If you would message me, I'd shout 'Hooray!'Hope your message isn't detrimental!
Here's something to think about, dear gentle
I'm sure you know Dylan Thomas, ok?
You think he's overly sentimental?
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?