Amazing, and beautiful.  I don't expect much less, though.

It's getting harder and harder for me to give any useful commentary on your poems, because they seem more and more like little miracles themselves.  If there's one thing I loved more than anything else in this poem, it's the gentle tone that solemnly declares things like "a most extraordinary feat," and "yes, strong enough to get along."

The meter is especially brilliant, because it is supersubtle.  It flows magically but without being sung, just spoken.

This is my favourite stanza:

quote:

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I wish your choices to be hard ones
your walls and doors most difficult to build
the value of the space and time around you,
strong enough to open what you've filled

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That's the kind of poetry that makes me want to crawl out of obscurity and speak up more often on piptalk.

This is really, really amazing poetry.  It's the kind of poetry that makes me want to become a famous literary critic just so I can sing your praises as the poet of our times.  You deserve a lot of recognition for this kind of writing.

Thanks for sharing this with us.  The pictures are wonderful, as well.  

Brian

"To me, the thing that art does for life is to clean it, to strip it to form."
~Robert Frost

"To me, the thing that art does for life is to clean it, to strip it to form."
~Robert Frost

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