tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474566446391728432.post4452176145158488322..comments2023-11-03T05:59:46.763-04:00Comments on Keeping Secrets: In GreenKarenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12003379181294550035noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474566446391728432.post-6490972714566613272010-06-30T21:09:54.596-04:002010-06-30T21:09:54.596-04:00Person whose language I do not know - Glad to know...Person whose language I do not know - Glad to know you, too.<br /><br />SzelsoFa- Thank you! And thanks for being so patient with me, your tardy reader.<br /><br />Kay - Help!Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12003379181294550035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474566446391728432.post-88760185949379574692010-06-29T08:59:53.667-04:002010-06-29T08:59:53.667-04:00are you in there??? haha
I think this is great!are you in there??? haha <br /><br />I think this is great!Kayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17353317664100788614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474566446391728432.post-19460668591882884622010-06-25T05:26:21.158-04:002010-06-25T05:26:21.158-04:00what a lovely poem.
i like your patience and accep...what a lovely poem.<br />i like your patience and acceptance here :)SzélsőFahttp://szelsofa.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474566446391728432.post-27604892476560486182010-06-23T21:40:53.895-04:002010-06-23T21:40:53.895-04:00Dianne - I do like the song! Thanks for the recomm...Dianne - I do like the song! Thanks for the recommendation. And yes, I do feel "asphalt-addled" - too often!<br /><br />Titus - Thanks!<br /><br />Aniket - Thank you. I'll take your one liners and all! I could just bathe in summer!<br /><br />Julie - I seem to obsess about the ivy, but it is really such a perfect metaphor. Thank you for your comments on the musicality. You always say something that makes me feel that sharing my writing is important. You don't know how I appreciate that.<br /><br />Willow - I really love the ivy, but it can be very destructive to the brick, the windows, the shutters, the fences - everything. Beauty and a beast all in one.<br /><br />joaquin - Those are some lovely terms, but the heat and the dust are the realities. I know I'm onto ivy again, but as seasons come, so does this beautiful invasion. I'm surprised and flattered that you recall Ivy Vines. I think it I ever put them in a chapbook, they'll be simply Ivy Parts I, II, and III. Thank you, dear friend!Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12003379181294550035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474566446391728432.post-6956617425930766572010-06-23T13:40:44.293-04:002010-06-23T13:40:44.293-04:00sumptous and sublime - i can feel the heat and dus...sumptous and sublime - i can feel the heat and dust in this, the becoming. <br /><br />it reminded me of another poem of yours - went back and read "ivy vines" - and it struck me how the ruefulness of that one seems to have given way to a wistful resignation in this - where the vines used to overtake the garden, now they are overtaking the gardener. <br /><br />i think i like this one better - even as you're pulling them down, you feel their "tenacious green embrace" - feeling the life of them around you. wonderful work!joaquin carvelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03193680725157157864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474566446391728432.post-63548003249131037542010-06-22T16:07:50.175-04:002010-06-22T16:07:50.175-04:00I love this piece! I feel exactly the same way ab...I love this piece! I feel exactly the same way about the ivy that has practically take over the front of Willow Manor. I need to just give up and say "lover, come!"Tess Kincaidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04889725786678984293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474566446391728432.post-66246897618334403302010-06-21T08:05:33.498-04:002010-06-21T08:05:33.498-04:00An immersion in summer. And everything that it me...An immersion in summer. And everything that it means.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474566446391728432.post-73424093369946821832010-06-21T00:11:04.459-04:002010-06-21T00:11:04.459-04:00Oh, hooray for you for writing such a sinuous, sen...Oh, hooray for you for writing such a sinuous, sensuous canticle to ivy, a much-beset-upon plant. I'm glad I get to follow Julie because I can say: Yes, all that! Well done!Enchanted Oakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14815997287116818456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474566446391728432.post-66729291050202402292010-06-20T23:55:21.181-04:002010-06-20T23:55:21.181-04:00Karen, you have such a wonderful eye for the uniqu...Karen, you have such a wonderful eye for the unique metaphor. Describing ivy on posts and walls as a lover is fantastic. We have a lot of it, and it gets in the garden sometimes. I can't think of a better way to describe it than "tenacious green embrace." <br /><br />As always, I love the music in your work. What wonderful, flowing lines. I can literally feel the movement of green. And ending with the narrator covered in ivy and loving it is perfect. Beautiful poem!Juliehttp://juliebuff.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474566446391728432.post-24598209915137398202010-06-20T02:33:04.961-04:002010-06-20T02:33:04.961-04:00After reading that I'd stay till eternity... o...After reading that I'd stay till eternity... or maybe just till summer. :)<br /><br />There is absolutely nothing poisonous about this ivy. :P<br /><br />Yes, I'm in the throwing-smart-ass-one-liners kinda mood today. My apologies. I agree with Titus, the use of repetitions in not overdone and has just the right effect. In fact they merged in so smoothly that I had to re-read to figure when they appeared in the piece.Aniket Thakkarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18311954967682696734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474566446391728432.post-27307738253478209492010-06-19T17:56:44.045-04:002010-06-19T17:56:44.045-04:00Beautiful use of repetitions, and I love the deepe...Beautiful use of repetitions, and I love the deepening of meaning as the poem progresses.<br /><br />And that final line clings!Titushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16380213493011623153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474566446391728432.post-32687900753054821302010-06-19T11:53:14.901-04:002010-06-19T11:53:14.901-04:00p.s. Thirteenth Crossing has a song you'd like...p.s. Thirteenth Crossing has a song you'd like today, here http://thethirteenthcrossing.blogspot.com/2010/06/song-saturday-keane-somewhere-only-we.html<br /><br />have a great weekend!Diannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18323454057921441274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474566446391728432.post-58743560178092365912010-06-19T11:49:53.893-04:002010-06-19T11:49:53.893-04:00asphalt-addled mind
wear Summer in all his green a...asphalt-addled mind<br />wear Summer in all his green and find new grottos to meet him on long walksDiannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18323454057921441274noreply@blogger.com