04-25-2015, 04:31 PM
The poems above...
I could just attribute them to a good topic (which it is);
and, contrary to my usual self, I seemed to have read them all (all)
so many times. They're like an album of music you can't stop
listening to. A poem-a-day means compromise in most places,
but not here. I've NEVER seen such consistently excellent writing.
Though just to comment on 'writing' is like commenting on the quality
of the paints, the brush-strokes, even the use of color in some sublime
painting. Those are just the mechanics. The places these poems take me,
the feeling, the experience; some sort of living exists in them...
I could just attribute them to a good topic (which it is);
and, contrary to my usual self, I seemed to have read them all (all)
so many times. They're like an album of music you can't stop
listening to. A poem-a-day means compromise in most places,
but not here. I've NEVER seen such consistently excellent writing.
Though just to comment on 'writing' is like commenting on the quality
of the paints, the brush-strokes, even the use of color in some sublime
painting. Those are just the mechanics. The places these poems take me,
the feeling, the experience; some sort of living exists in them...
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions