Thank you for encapsulating: Thank you for encapsulating my expression with such skill and deep comprehension. It made my day. My week! Beyond grateful.
This is a tremendous tribute: This is a tremendous tribute to the PostPoems community; and I think it demonstrates what I have often said---that a real community does exist on this site. And you, one of its pillars, have provided an excellent poem about that community.
They tell me that this kind: They tell me that this kind of poem is really difficult to write: poseurs and wannabe's cannot write to this level of quality. But you have written it as if invented the concept, and I applaud your literary accomplishment here.
Wow a beautiful and stellar: Wow a beautiful and stellar tribute to beauty and the immortal nature of creation, creating and creativity... the nods were not missed, each one categorised in each readers mind in the appropriate resonance. Do we feel it too? Apparently we do. And the beautiful and gracious way you let us know is precious, priceless even. Thankyou hugss Ss
This hit home for me. It: This hit home for me. It brought me back in time to the first time I felt real love I was was getting ready for a date and brushing my hair in the mirror I heard the sound of thier very familiar sound of thier vehicle and looked at my face to see a smile stretching across the glass and I knew I was in love...
When love turns to PTSD. I: When love turns to PTSD. I get it.
Your running metaphor was a grenade to the heart and it exploded into devastatingly brilliant lines. At the end, there was a hush, an eloquent silence, that hovered as I took in the impact of that last word "alone". A stoke of genius to isolate that last line and imbue it with so much weariness, finality and significance.
Amazing image work. Remarkable.