Soundcloud is the "simplest": Soundcloud is the "simplest" formatted platform, all in one online, venue platform, that you can use for free within minutes of signing up.
Interesting insight therein:: Interesting insight therein: if an Author were not born or did not author (v), then a child/ren of said Author could possibly not have been authored to succeed and carry on assertion of the prior authority. Wherein the author's authorisation allows for the promulgation by their issue. And if childless, would be adapted and subscribed to by an adoptive child and that line continues. Much to muse on.
Thank you, a gazillion times: Thank you, a gazillion times over, for such an uplifting comment---spiritually poetic, and steeped in encouraging theology. This is one of the best comments I have ever received. Your Faith resonates across your words, and your cosmologic perspective is magnificent. You have profoundly helped me tonight, and I am very, very grateful. You are one of PostPoems' finest, and I am thankful to bask in the splendor of your words.
This is consoling and: This is consoling and comforting as well as encouraging in a silent and quiet kind of way. Hope all works out for your significant connection.
How awesome and even: How awesome and even sometimes painful on either end or both for such connections to have been forged and grown through the years!
For my part, in my experience: For my part, in my experience of such I can only draw some small consolation in some wise words: Matthew 15:11, ESV: "it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person." Looking at the portal to Eden with the fiery sword blocking its entrance, I realise how painful and dark this existence is outside of and separated from the Lord until His return when all tears shall be wiped dry and the wild beasts and children shall frolic together. Oh what a Day to look forward to! Meanwhile, to draw near to the stripes that heal us, the Incarnate God who is no stranger to human suffering. I bit mute on the outside but cosmologically transforming within the realm of faith. Shalom and God speed.
Sometimes we do and say: Sometimes we do and say things out of self preservation. Having been in an almost mirror perfect situation at that age I realise that there would have been some damaging aspect to one's 'finer feeling' as my psychiatrist aunt termed. On my behalf at that age, I justified the resulting 'moving on' to be 'their' being unable to appreciate and accept my friendship and person and duly learned to live with that freeing truth and the self acceptance that had even at that point already been too late in coming. My takeaway is that most beautiful admonition to "let the deserters walk away. They missed out on the opportunity of growing with you, not the other way around."
Please do so. I think you: Please do so. I think you could make a grocery list sound like a poetic experience. I would say this to only a handful of poets, and you are one of them.
In my opinion, do not change: In my opinion, do not change anything, not a single detail.
I say this because a poem like this has a major, and overriding, spiritual purpose that makes any concern as to form and format a secondary concern at best. The last two lines are an integral part of the poem. You can write other sonnets on almost any other subject; but since this poem was given to you in the form in which you have posted it---do not alter, or tinker with, its integral parts.
To keep the final couplet?: I began this poem as a short story, but it wanted to be a poem so I set it to verse instead. Originally it was the ababcdcdefefgg... English Sonnet, a method I like to employ sometimes, but decided to add an hh rhyme at the end. Not sure whether to keep the last couplet or drop it for the English Sonnet.
I have, in previous comments,: I have, in previous comments, been a little verbose---because your poems and prose are so excellent that I just can't keep my mouth shut.
This poem, however, is so excellent that the only word I can think of to describe it is WOW!
I will leave it at that. Nothing I could say further would be worthy in the face of this magnicient poem.
I'm thinking of sharing My: I'm thinking of sharing My Life's First Breath, The Dawn and She Dances, Possibly my Bukowski Triad if I feel lead to share any more. Let me know what you think!