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allets commented on: Towards the Memory Factory by lyrycsyntyme 5 years 2 weeks* ago* Wow: Glad I took the time: "so I travel to the gates if hell to bring a little heaven back" Wow-ed big time. . Lady A . [ go to comment ]
Starward commented on: Windwed Weed by saiom 5 years 2 weeks* ago* My experience, which seems: My experience, which seems ancient now, was like Allets': I broke the pods open and scattered the seeds. During my first grade year, our class was conducted in the basement of one of the oldest buildings on the high school campus, while the new elementary school was being built. Our playground was a grassy slope, with a weedpatch on its far end. At six years old, I was amazed to "discover" that the same milkweeds grew on my paternal grandparents' rural property---and I believed that the sets of the same species were somehow closely related, as my grandparents and I were closely related. And, during recesses on classdays, and in the afternoons at home (we were on half days, then), those playground milkweeds always put me in mind of the rather magical beauty I always found, regardless of the weather, at my grandparents' place. Thank you for reminding me of the memory. [ go to comment ]
Starward commented on: Windwed Weed by saiom 5 years 2 weeks* ago* I wish I could have studied: I wish I could have studied with such a poet when I was a student. The one published poet with whom I studied was, in my experience, somewhat questionable . . . alas! [ go to comment ]
allets commented on: POINTY UMBRELLA by georgeschaefer 5 years 2 weeks* ago* An Umbrella Through The Heart?: I must have missed that movie. . Lady A . [ go to comment ]
allets commented on: Windwed Weed by saiom 5 years 2 weeks* ago* Milkweed Pods: During my great childhood, I tore thenm apart aand blew the seeds away. Odd sense of fun. . Lady A [ go to comment ]
allets commented on: Green eyed blind by Jesster 5 years 2 weeks* ago* Green Perspectived Monster: Sees wrong most often as if envy was water. Lady A [ go to comment ]
Starward commented on: bellfower by Pungus 5 years 2 weeks* ago* This is one of your poems: This is one of your poems that really showcases your talent to imply a huge backstory with just a few lines of a few words, while coyly withholding specific information so that the reader must read---really read---the poem, rather than just skim over it. And then, in the last line you raise a tower that takes its place with other towers in Poetry---the topless towers of Ilium in Marlowe's Faust; the tower in Verlaine's sonnet, "Parsifal"; and Eliot's allusion to Veraline's sonnet in the fifth section of The Waste Land. The moe sinister towers of Castle Dracula, in Stoker's eponymous novel, also come to mind. I like the way you use a single reference, a single line, to resonate through other poems and sources that the reader has visited in the past. This adds a depth to this poem, and other poems of yours in this aspect of your style. [ go to comment ]
lyrycsyntyme commented on: POINTY UMBRELLA by georgeschaefer 5 years 2 weeks* ago* Fantastic bedtime poetry :: Fantastic bedtime poetry : p I do miss the hissings of those steam radiators. It was always a really nice associative sound (when they worked) in my childhood home. [ go to comment ]
lyrycsyntyme commented on: Windwed Weed by saiom 5 years 2 weeks* ago* I will be having my students: I will be having my students attempt to read this out without getting their tongue tied, if that's alright : ) [ go to comment ]
Morningglory commented on: Norwegians by saiom 5 years 2 weeks* ago* I'm Norwegian and I love: I'm Norwegian and I love bacon. :-/ [ go to comment ]
Morningglory commented on: I was wearing a tank top in the desert, and the sun went down by Jesster 5 years 2 weeks* ago* Thank you: I recall Beavis liking this poem a lot. Looking back, I like it too. Thanks for leading me here. [ go to comment ]
saiom commented on: Breaking Out (Response to Allets' Winter to Spring Challenge) by patriciajj 5 years 2 weeks* ago* a beautiful poem It makes me: a beautiful poem It makes me think How cruel the frost to the croci, the advance troops of spring [ go to comment ]
saiom commented on: I was wearing a tank top in the desert, and the sun went down by Jesster 5 years 2 weeks* ago* Seagulls Soar: the brevity is wonderful [ go to comment ]
saiom commented on: I was wearing a tank top in the desert, and the sun went down by Jesster 5 years 2 weeks* ago* question: was it the sun or another lover [ go to comment ]
saiom commented on: Retreat by life_used_to_be... 5 years 2 weeks* ago* (No subject): [ go to comment ]