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Starward commented on: @ 27.055 MHz: Ad Astra; At The Mastaba Of Khnumhotep & Niankhkhnum by Starward-Led 3 years 50 weeks* ago* I am: I am horribly---HORRIBLY---embarrassed that I failed to acknowledge this comment in a timely manner. Thank you very much for commenting, and please forgive my incompetence in keeping up. And yes, when I was writing it, I could hear the humming and chanting as well. I have loved the film, The Egyptian (1954) and Mika Waltari's novel of the same name that inspired it, since my viewing of it on the Sunday of our Memorial Day holiday in 1974 (while eating my father's rotiserrie chicken---it doesn't get better than that). As I have grown older, I have become particularly impressed, even emotional, about, the film's musical setting of what, I suppose, is the movie's version of the Pharaoh Akhenaten's Hymn To Aten---which, in the film, we hear beginning with the words, "How beautiful art thou . . ." (although they do not appear in the translation I have read of the actual ancient poem, and I am not sufficiently a scholar to know the difference). But the beauty of that music is, to me, ancient Egypt. Thanks again for the comment, and please forgive my inexcusable incompetence in failing to reply timely. [ go to comment ]
Starward commented on: benefit of the drought by redbrick 3 years 50 weeks* ago* Awkward and clumsy? I: Awkward and clumsy? I disagree. It may have seemed so in the writing, but the result, and the effect of reading it, is far different. This poem reads like a glimpse of the stream of consciousness---which, in my opinion, is more difficult than the usual approach (I cannot imagine how James Joyce wrote, and wrote so well, Molly's great soliloquy at the end of Ulysses). The awkward and clumsy that you may have felt while writing it do not cross over into the reading of it. [ go to comment ]
georgeschaefer commented on: NEW MILLENNIAL NIGHTMARE by georgeschaefer 3 years 50 weeks* ago* still waiting on the time: still waiting on the time bombs to go off [ go to comment ]
crypticbard commented on: a child's thanksgiving by redbrick 3 years 50 weeks* ago* Thanks Patricia. I hope that: Thanks Patricia. I hope that you are having an awesome Thanksgiving week/weekend. [ go to comment ]
crypticbard commented on: benefit of the drought by redbrick 3 years 50 weeks* ago* Thanks kindly. Most: Thanks kindly. Most appreciative as this was a tad awkward and clumsy. [ go to comment ]
Starward commented on: To ALL Of Postpoems' Poets, For Thanksgiving Day by Starward-Led 3 years 50 weeks* ago* And thank you, Sir.: And thank you, Sir. [ go to comment ]
patriciajj commented on: a child's thanksgiving by redbrick 3 years 50 weeks* ago* There is something so: There is something so nostalgic, enchanting and charming about this delightful flood of pure gratitude for the things that matter most. The world seen through the eyes of a child is suddenly so clear. Heartwarming and inspiring work. [ go to comment ]
lyrycsyntyme commented on: To ALL Of Postpoems' Poets, For Thanksgiving Day by Starward-Led 3 years 50 weeks* ago* Thank you, sir. The very same: Thank you, sir. The very same to you. [ go to comment ]
Starward commented on: To ALL Of Postpoems' Poets, For Thanksgiving Day by Starward-Led 3 years 50 weeks* ago* Thank you, Sir.: Thank you, Sir. [ go to comment ]
Starward commented on: Footnote: On Writing Haiku Or Tanka, 1 by Starward-Led 3 years 50 weeks* ago* Thank you, and you need never: Thank you, and you need never apologize to me for any comment; and a Poet of your calibre will never ruffle these feathers. Your comments have extended my understanding of the issue, and for that I am grateful. [ go to comment ]
Starward commented on: benefit of the drought by redbrick 3 years 50 weeks* ago* I really like the pun in your: I really like the pun in your title, and I applaud your Shakespearian sonnet! [ go to comment ]
crypticbard commented on: Footnote: On Writing Haiku Or Tanka, 1 by Starward-Led 3 years 50 weeks* ago* Most kindly so. And that: Most kindly so. And that comment was only to validate both, whereas without what's been referred to as the great heretics (a word I don't particularly rejoice in, mind: heresy) the world would not have evolved or advanced ( another 2 words that have turned into triggers ). And that is the challenge, how to uphold and cherish one without dishonouring or missing out on the possibilities and potential pleasure of the other. On the street we can witness an anology of this, albeit an insufficient one: automobiles running alongside each other on the same thoroughfare but having left or right hand steering; different bodies with the same engines, and strikingly similar ones with different engines under the bonnet. In saying so, this is to lay it out there without motivation to persuade or dissuade but to acknowledge the variations and the validities of all based on their individual merits and distinctions. Apologies if expression could ruffle feathers, so to speak. [ go to comment ]
Starward commented on: Footnote: On Writing Haiku Or Tanka, 1 by Starward-Led 3 years 50 weeks* ago* Thank you very much. You: Thank you very much. You know---I most dearly hope you know---that I have the utmost respect for your poetry, and your comments; and I respect this comment no less. I think, however, that the respect for the formal rules of certain forms (sonnets, Haiku and Tanka, blank verse as iambic pentameter) is too much ingrained in the very fabric of my soul to become comfortable with variations on those rules. Some time ago, I read a very intensely moving, unrhymed poem of thirteen lines; and in the notes to the poem, the Poet called it a sonnet (and I cringed). Formalism was part of my literary upbringing: such that, immediately after my undergrad years, I found Eliot's free verse (even in the Quartets, and especially in the plays) inferior to Wallace Stevens' more regular iambic pentameter. Most likely this preference for the formal rules makes me a fossil, but, after all, fossils are sought by collectors and can remind us of the ancient, even mysterious, past. Thank you for the comment; I am always grateful for your words. [ go to comment ]
crypticbard commented on: To ALL Of Postpoems' Poets, For Thanksgiving Day by Starward-Led 3 years 50 weeks* ago* Decanted is one of those: Decanted is one of those magical words and not just for bibbing. A blessed thanksgiving and gratitude all around; and to poets both present, past and emerging. [ go to comment ]
crypticbard commented on: Footnote: On Writing Haiku Or Tanka, 1 by Starward-Led 3 years 50 weeks* ago* The contention that arises: The contention that arises and also that brings most tension in these adaptations are the occasional dilemma that presents itself in the form of individual languages' differences in structure and employment. Languages don't always behave in the same manner and fashion at all times and when subjecting words and lines to structures that on that specific occasion the adapting grammar and syntax won't allow, then the resulting line proves forced and stilted. So when that happens what is the author to do but go to the heart and purpose of these structures and guides, the intent and soul of the form. Form should be the vehicle, the means of displaying the soul and not the other way around. It took many years to warm to this understanding before I could face and begin to enjoy e.g. haiku that is outside the 5-7-5 format, etc. And in so doing gained a better appreciation and respect for 5-7-5 in English that does conform and exemplify the source genre, in other languages other than the original. But that's probably much said in this space. [ go to comment ]