I felt it all as if every: I felt it all as if every word was my own, only it wasn't I just wish it was because it cam from a greater poetic mind and that is a sign of greatness. So many beautiful and deep lines highly emotional whilst maintaining a coldness or bereft mood that is a very difficult thing to do indeed! My favourite lines :
"I remember being
annihilated by love,
burned to death by beauty.
Life was distilled
to one note:
just you
and that was enough
A reat poem within a great poem! Ah beavis would be proud well as proud as I am surely to know you. What richness and depth distilled so well
I still search for signposts....
Just wow!
When ever fragments of you wash upon the shore or doze in your chair... how well you describe the missing to produce a guttural reaction in the reader...
Just... Wow!
Wow thank you so much, I am: Wow thank you so much, I am always awed by you understandings and appreciation of my poetry because I consider your poetry some of the very best on this site! Warm wishes and hugss
Except for the fifteenth: Except for the fifteenth line, this seems like a profound poem. But to include God with that man's name seems blasphemous. Other than that, a good poem.
I truly wish a poem like this: I truly wish a poem like this had been available in October, 1975, when I first experienced the urge to become a Poet. This Poem, in its shimmering magnificence, is and will be a guiding star to young Poets. I believe that this one of the most important poems on this site.
That would be both a: That would be both a privilege and an honour, if it were to be so: a service to the education of our future generations. Thanks kindly
This is brilliant, and: This is brilliant, and perfect---except for the single use of the word "thee" in a poem where "you/your" dominate. You are so good at Poetry that the "thee" must certainly be an oversight.
Observation: It has been observed that, as soon as we are born, we begin the business of dying. This though gives me a sense of belonging. Very observsnt poem well penned.
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