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Starward commented on: The Golden Arc of Art by Spinoza 2 years 8 weeks* ago* Although brief, this poem: Although brief, this poem contains a profound wisdom. [ go to comment ]
Starward commented on: @ 27.225 MHz: WallStones; Afterglow by J4nu4r14n 2 years 8 weeks* ago* Thank you very much for your: Thank you very much for your comment and for visiting the poem. And I am very grateful for your compliment about the final line. I am usually verbose, sometimes excessively, but that line seemed to be a good stopping place. Thanks again for the comment. [ go to comment ]
georgeschaefer commented on: DUDE (LIMERICK) by georgeschaefer 2 years 8 weeks* ago* Cool! Glad I could provide: Cool! Glad I could provide some inspiration. [ go to comment ]
lyrycsyntyme commented on: ONE LESS CHORE by georgeschaefer 2 years 8 weeks* ago* Well, in fairness, we have a: Well, in fairness, we have a few apocalypes to survive, yet, to be on their level. [ go to comment ]
lyrycsyntyme commented on: @ 27.225 MHz: WallStones; Afterglow by J4nu4r14n 2 years 8 weeks* ago* Another fine piece draped in your unique style: I love and often do use parenthesis quite freely in writing. Though that is something more common for me in letters, emails, and stories than in the more poetic way you use them. Never have you weilded this favored tool more masterfully than in Afterglow (at least not that I've read ; ) ). Your sense of timing here, to me, is perfect, and reaches an almost impossible harmonic smoothness, something that bracketed expressions normally are not quite rendered to do. I happily wave the rocketeers good bye with you, as this has been a sort of fantasy of my own. We may or may not dream of different solutions to prevent them from coming back ; ) Lastly, I want to say, it's quite difficult, no matter how good the piece, to sign off with the best line of all, but you did just that with "since those overreaching apes..first stood upright to / grasp what was not meant to be theirs". Only, again, aided by your sidebar, generating a fair chuckle from me, at that. But never could it be better spoken than that they "grasped what was not meant to be theirs". Oh, indeed. This, to me, is spectacular. [ go to comment ]
lyrycsyntyme commented on: Pitch dark pearls by Pungus 2 years 8 weeks* ago* Unique, clever, enlightening rotation of perspective: Yes, there's a reason Ouiga boards say "Ages 8 and up". [ go to comment ]
lyrycsyntyme commented on: Early bird special by Teytonon 2 years 8 weeks* ago* A sage river flows here: I will sit by the shore and listen. Perhaps the following can be said: The second wisest man realizes he knows nothing. Meanwhile, the wisest man realizes he knows that little something. ; ) [ go to comment ]
Teytonon commented on: DUDE (LIMERICK) by georgeschaefer 2 years 8 weeks* ago* Limerick followup: One evening I chanced upon.. Saw her body, thought I'd be turned on What I was lusting Was pretty disgusting I'd rather she keep her clothes on [ go to comment ]
Teytonon commented on: DUDE (LIMERICK) by georgeschaefer 2 years 8 weeks* ago* I liked your limerick. It inspired my own.: I once had a neighbor who'd Liked to walk around in the nude I'd always be hopin' The curtains she'd open Each night I would watch, my eyes glued [ go to comment ]
Starward commented on: to be seen by redbrick 2 years 8 weeks* ago* Thank you for your reply, and: Thank you for your reply, and I really like that Aussie saying you quoted. [ go to comment ]
Starward commented on: @ 27.225 MHz: WallStones; Afterglow by J4nu4r14n 2 years 8 weeks* ago* Thank you very much for those: Thank you very much for those kind words. I am again reminded of Umberto Eco's preface to The Name Of The Rose: "I was now free of every fear." Your words have that effect on me, and I am grateful. [ go to comment ]
lyrycsyntyme commented on: Putin him out of his misery by Teytonon 2 years 8 weeks* ago* Justice: We must first remove the war criminals from our own eyes before we remove them from others. [ go to comment ]
patriciajj commented on: @ 27.225 MHz: WallStones; Afterglow by J4nu4r14n 2 years 8 weeks* ago* It's interesting that you: It's interesting that you felt that way because the voice is what makes this work. I love the wry attitude, the natural flow, the personality, if you will. It clicked. Kept me engaged. Wonderful work. [ go to comment ]
crypticbard commented on: to be seen by redbrick 2 years 8 weeks* ago* Mystery is all around us and: Mystery is all around us and yet the mysterious and the mystical is a super scary thing to the western mind. Any wonder that there were witch hunts for centuries. The hunt was not exclusively for witches as such but to hunt down the fear of the unknown and the uncontrollable. But I digress. In reading and poetry we often gloss over or ignore what seems to be on the onset a challenge to norm, conventions, and basic communication patterns that each language and culture has been employing, why fix it if it ain't broke kind of mode. But I have found a pioneering spirit in the braver poets and poetry such as Samuel Greenburg and the like who push the capacities of language and break through to new forms and ways of evoking thought and expression. That has not always been the staple and invites gainsayers, naysayers, and outright opposition. But those are the breaks. I am convinced that the further we go along the Babel coordinates the closer we can get to a heavenly language or mode of expression. As a northern Aussie saying goes: "You'll never (n)ever know if you'll never (n)ever go." Thanks most kindly for your gracious words of comment. [ go to comment ]
Starward commented on: to be seen by redbrick 2 years 8 weeks* ago* I love metaphysical poems in: I love metaphysical poems in which highly evocative language traces the contours of a mystery, reminding us of the mystery's existence (so often ignored by our calloused souls), without actually revealing it. Your poem does exactly that, and that's why, when I read it, it seemed to leap off the page at me. (Two of Wallace Stevens' late poems, "The Planet On The Table," and, "Final Soliloquy Of The Interior Paramour," have that same effect on me.) I am convinced that you are one of those Cosmic Poets that write the very highest level of Poetry here at postpoems. [ go to comment ]