PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

I love how your variety of: I love how your variety of settings is as boundless as your imagination: here you set the stage in a museum where only the works of great masters are displayed, and here, enshrined on canvas and playing many parts (not unlike the figures in your plethora of poetic depictions), is the epitome of inner and outer beauty, gentle dignity, self-assured elegance and earthy playfulness right down to the unshod feet.   With a stroke of brilliance, you found a way to make your character so electrifying and, well, real, that he almost jumped off the canvas (as he, in many costumes and roles, jumps off the screen in your poems) :   ". . . The paintings sometimes seemed to move, being full of the most provocative vivacity."   Your subtle handling of eroticism erupts with far more power than explicit "telling" could ever do.   As in many of your Ad Astra poems, venomous, irrational judgement from society slithers on the fringes, but never manages to defile what is, in its essence, sacred and pure, because, what else can love be?   Love, being one of the many names of God.   And here's where we get to the lasting impact, the legacy, the intention of this series. In an age of censorship when neo-fascists want to erase an entire subculture (or anyone that doesn't look or think like them), you make the marginalized and too often silenced shine in their own resplendent truth. In your deft and compassionate hands, you make them feel seen.   As I glided through your supple, fine-crafted and stirring story (the pacing is always perfection) I was delighted by your cunning reveal: the old man was the model! Bravo!   Then you ended on such a heart-clutching note that I'm still impacted as I write this. Like all great poetry, one still feels it long after the last line is read.   Another success. 

Oscar Wilde, Moliere,: Oscar Wilde, Moliere, Appolonaire, Edith Piaf, Balzac, Gertrude Stein, Collette, Paul Eluard, Delacroix, Camille Pissarro, Victor Hugo, Marcel Duchamp and many others are also buried at Pere Lachaise.  It is an interesting and solemn way to pass a couple hours if you ever find yourself idling in Paris and need something to do.

thank you for reading and: thank you for reading and commenting.  The crazies do make life more interesting

powerful!: powerful!

most welcome: most welcome

interesting. different from: interesting. different from what I at first expected