All outstanding questions - together, asking "Are you willing to be truly alive and real .... or not?"
I think it works better as manifesto than poem, but thanks for sharing that with us, Gillian!
richard
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- Wed Jun 14, 2006 1:35 pm
- Forum: In Tribute
- Topic: "The Invitation"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2670
- Sat Jun 10, 2006 10:40 pm
- Forum: In Tribute
- Topic: About a Boy, About a Girl, About a Man, About a World
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4258
- Sat Jun 10, 2006 10:32 pm
- Forum: Form in Poetry, Classical and New
- Topic: A Fan Letter to Shakespeare (sonnet)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7605
- Wed Jun 07, 2006 2:05 pm
- Forum: The Ravyn's Wings
- Topic: ...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7950
Juko, I'm so deeply saddened by your experience. I'm even more saddened by your tangle of feelings - longings, self-doubts, recriminations, confusions, frustrations .... There's not a lot I can say. I'm glad that you're dealing with it, and trying to work through everything rather than keeping it in...
- Sun Jun 04, 2006 7:46 pm
- Forum: Community Favorites, Poem of the Week and Poet of the Month
- Topic: Poem of the Week: June 4, 2006
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2866
- Fri Jun 02, 2006 8:24 am
- Forum: Community Favorites, Poem of the Week and Poet of the Month
- Topic: Poet of the Month: June 2006... AlluraD
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5767
- Sat May 27, 2006 10:44 pm
- Forum: Love and Romance
- Topic: **Miranda's End** Forum Award 2008.06.08
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7489
Interesting you should say that, deborah... I never heard tenderness in the voice (or saw it on the face) of my crabby, quiet, old german grandfather until he tried to explain, unbidden by us, that he had to put his wife of 40 years in extended care because she no longer knew him, and would repeated...
- Sat May 27, 2006 3:35 pm
- Forum: Community Favorites, Poem of the Week and Poet of the Month
- Topic: Poet of the Month: June 2006
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6950
- Sun May 21, 2006 8:02 pm
- Forum: Briefs:
- Topic: 'tight squeeze'
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5189
- Wed May 17, 2006 5:14 am
- Forum: Briefs:
- Topic: WHAT IS HAIKU ANYWAY ? ? ?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 29576
Yes - for me, there's a moment of freefall as the haiku shifts and opens my perceptions. The better the haiku, the longer the freefall. And true - the vast majority here is senryu - also lovely in its own right. richard a true haiku can indeed be breathtaking and can make you stop in your tracks and...
- Wed May 10, 2006 1:20 pm
- Forum: Community Favorites, Poem of the Week and Poet of the Month
- Topic: Poem of the Week: May 7, 2006
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4792
- Wed May 10, 2006 7:07 am
- Forum: In Tribute
- Topic: **Her Blue Shoes** Forum Award: 5.31.05
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6324
- Thu May 04, 2006 5:09 am
- Forum: In Tribute
- Topic: Abandoned Treasure~ For Joan
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4258
- Sun Apr 23, 2006 5:44 am
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: Rainer Maria Rilke
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8066
... a few additional Rilke samples for folks - some that also don't get much "air-time" [you who never arrived] You who never arrived in my arms, Beloved, who were lost from the start, I don't even know what songs would please you. I have given up trying to recognize you in the surging wave of the ...
- Sun Apr 23, 2006 4:03 am
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: Rainer Maria Rilke
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8066
I agree, Heinz - Walter Arndt does a poor job of rendering Rilke. Though he is also a bit flat and loses some nuance, I usually trust Stephen Mitchell the most, particularly for something like "Letters to Young Poet" or "The Notebooks of Malte Laurdis Brigge". Spot on for the prose, but drifts a bit...