Thank you most kindly: Thank you most kindly Starward. Your opting to fast breakfast is a most significant sacrifice and even more so in your current state of health. I am truly grateful and humbled beyond words. You have offered up a gift beyond compare. May the angels hasten to note this compassion that you have selflessly shown, in their book of reckoning.
Thank you kind Patricia. We: Thank you kind Patricia. We are still waiting on the medical team as there is also an accompanying stage-3 kidney disease they are looking into.
First, my heart and prayers: First, my heart and prayers go out to you and your baby brother in this difficult time. As with everything you write, your talent is a beacon in this deeply piercing and heartfelt expression. As exceptional as it is sorrowful. My sympathy and respect.
No words of mine are adequate: No words of mine are adequate to speak of, or to, the poignancy of this poem, and the distress and worry you must feel for your brother. Rather than commenting on the poem as a poem, I will say, rather, that it gave me a very compelling reason to set my breakfast aside to lift him up in prayer. I, myself, have had a couple of mini-strokes; so I have some idea how frightening they can be, either to the patient or to the patient's loved ones.
You got it right with this: You got it right with this demonstration of what it's really like to keep it all straight in our heads. Welcome to my world. Great stuff. Love it!
The poetic gymnastics, the: The poetic gymnastics, the acrobatic alliteration, the experimental metrics . . . the entire trip was a uniquely satisfying challenge.
Once I was deep in the rabbit hole, I was enjoying the mystifying artistry of it all, and although I can't say that I succeeded in unraveling every line, I admire your rare, edgy and audacious flights of diction that follow in the footsteps of groundbreaking, avant-garde word artists such as Allen Ginsberg who celebrated his eccentricity and wrote "without fear".
These lines, for me, made me feel as if I had struck gold and impressed me as the motherload of imagination:
"Murderous trance of time
Wack hell out of balance"
Some opulent eloquence. You rock!
The catch of the day is . . .: The catch of the day is . . . happiness.
Delightful, the way you bring passages from the Bible into the present and make them relatable, relevant and enlivening to readers in need of a smile and a dose of encouragement. Written with lighthearted, accessible wit interwoven with personal experience and your own descriptive powers, this lyrical pleasure made the book of Luke spring to life.
A net filled with joy.
Thanks SSmoothie for such a: Thanks SSmoothie for such a great critique, I'm happy you found this to your liking.
I was watching my shadow melt into the last of a long day, and I thought it appropriate I deliver a eulogy.