Wow! Double: Wow! Double WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is one of the finest---and I do mean the FINEST---poems I have ever read on this site! The skill with which you deploy the parish metaphor is breathtakingly EXCELLENT. I am overwhelmed by your accomplishment. This one of the most important poems on this whole site.
Thank you very much for: Thank you very much for visiting the poem and for commenting. I realize you are pressed for time right now, and I am very grateful that you made a time in your busy day to stop by.
Excellent metaphor, presented: Excellent metaphor, presented in the most succinct and powerful format. This, to me, hearkens back to the greatest of the Greek epigrammatists.
You should try it more than: You should try it more than once. It works! The way you slipped the rhyme and rhythm into this little ember of playful seduction was sly and elegant. It a delight to read you after all this time. Rest assured that my absence is due to pressing obligations and not for lack of interest in this crucial series.
Keep penning artistry and the magnificence of love.
Addendums, Annotations, Footnotes... :
quotes that I actually remember the sources of or which book I read them in or where I might have heard it or who may have said it...
"The difference between the almost-right word & the right word is the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning" - Mark Twain
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"No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren" - Henry Taylor
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"Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God" - Lenny Bruce... if you will permit me Lenny to add in "& turning their backs on the government"... that wall we've built between "Church&State" doesn't really exist... ya'll go ahead and keep trying though, I'll watch from here... no I will not hand you that brick...
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"Let me remember that I look on the past to prevent the present from dawning on my mind" - ACIM #52:8
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"If I should die in my sleep tonight I don't want to have wasted today worrying about the tomorrow that will never come" - Author Unknown (just gonna file that under Words-To-Live-By)
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"Democracy is Anarchy mixed with Polity" - Terence McKenna
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