Your words ask for guidance,: Your words ask for guidance, and then lead this reader to wander through haunting phrases, adorned by beautiful images, manifesting themselves into the rebirth of faith, understanding, and the acceptance of life itself. Thank you for sharing your journey.
It's always a pleasure to visit here, thank you for sharing your talent.
Mighty glad to hear that.: Mighty glad to hear that. Thank you kindly. Physical and visual shapes are quite tricky when words do not always morph happily into the 5 senses.
Thanks pjj! Indeed there: Thanks pjj! Indeed there appear to be more unwritten poems than those that see the light. Perhaps writing them out allows them to be shared and even possibly be immortalized!
Do you recall this song?: Stockings, they are just sheer stockings
Can't forget those stockings
Sheer stockings I love
Crying, I cannot stop crying
Trying to forget those
Sheer stockings I love
Stockings, love those sheer stockings
Why'd you ever take them off?
They really turn me on
Stockings, miss your sheer stockings
I need your stockings
Need them in my life..
I cannot define your style. : I cannot define your style. I can applaud it (and I do); I praise it, admire it, envy it at times, study it closely when I read your poems, and I let its verbal power wash over me like a great and refreshing seabreeze. But I cannot say what exactly it is. So if you have a name for it, or if it follows a particular pattern or school of verse styles, please tell me. But . . . more than anything else I might request here . . . please do not change it.
If I had the academic: If I had the academic qualifications to teach Poetry on an undergrad level---I mean, to teach the practical composition of Poetry (rather than simply doing readings of ancient Poets and such)---I would want to use your texts as examples; yours, and the work of one other Poet on this site, as the primary ways a young, aspiring poet should approach the craft.
This poem makes me wish for: This poem makes me wish for something: it makes me wish for a long volume of poems from you in this form. The understated voice, the powerful imagery, the emotion that speaks through the words without overclouding them . . . wow!!! You are one of the finest Poets on this site, and I have been far too neglectful and careless in failing to say this repeatedly.
I have been reading Poetry: I have been reading Poetry for fifty years, as of this past April, 2023, but I cannot explain either the impressive power for the definite effect of these words that you present in nine short lines. I have fallen behind in my reading again, largely due to my medical situation, but I sure do want to catch up now.
And I always love your subtle references to the stars.
It is a great thing to have: It is a great thing to have grandchildren. My wife and I parented a blendid family (three children from our previous marriages), and they have now blessed us with seven grandchildren. But . . . when the two great-grandchildren arrived, just a couple of years ago, we began to feel old. We thought of ourselves as young grandparents, but "young great grandparents" seems to be a contradiction in terms.
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