My favorite stanza is the first. That is a perfect example of how I view the love of my husband because to me, love is also safety, and I feel safe in the crook of his arm/heart. It is just too hard to imagine someone hurting someone who they carry safe and sleeping... Thanks for the beautiful mental picture.
Kate, love at a level, from a view perhaps not considered by many. What you have exposed, expressed is the psycho-sensual plain too often summarily dismissed yet the vital roots of where secure love dwells most of the time. "an inner circus tent where, nightly we feast wide-eyed on wonder's sequined acrobats", the sensual. This work is unmistakably, Kate. And cherish it I do. May peace and love be always with you my dear friend. Jon Michael
Not only have you captured the essence of love between two people, but you have managed to articulate it - making it clear what love really is. Magnificent!
through the looking glasses love finds a way to reveal itself ...
Reviewed by Darkest Angel (Reader)
Reviewed on June 19, 2010
I love you--um um...what you write--yes, I love what you write. Kate this one is so perfect to me--very well written. I wish I could possess the words that my heart felt--spirit felt while falling all over yours.
Kate, You capture "love" in a very special way..Hey what's wrong with sequined acrobats, I probably designed them..lol
Anyway, I have this love deeply within my soul that cannot be touched but by only that "special" soul...I am still waiting for him to come to grips with destiny...So dreaming is my option at the moment just like you said inventiveness of dreams...that is a beautiful place for right now. I will find the patience and fortitude to hang in there, and wait for "love"...I LOVE This poem, it brings the tenderness out of me...xo :)
You must have better reception than I do. Circ De Solei was on for quite a few nights but was canceled and now it's reruns of mutiny on the bounty. Patrick
Reviewed by Chantilly Lace (Reader)
Reviewed on June 18, 2010
Wonderful writing sweet lady..very well done indeed..stay safe and well..Hugss
Excellent, evocative and inventive description of what could be love. I particularly liked the penultimate strophe. If this review is minimal assume that I don't have too many words; since I actually don't have. Speechless!
A MARVELOUS OFFERING...LIFTING ONE HIGH ON WELL CHOSEN, DELICATE PHRASES WHICH GIFTS THE READER'S IMAGINATION WITH AN IMPRESSIVE, ARTISTICAL LOOK AT...LOVE. WELL DONE, KATE! THANKS FOR SHARING AND GOD BLESS. LOVE, JOYCE * HIS INSPIRATIONS
Gene's just written my review for me, Kate...this does make the heart stir...not too much, I pray, I'm still recovering from being alive yesterday.
"...safe in the crook.." and "...blue whale dark.." are beyond perfect
and those 'tightrope-walking spectacles' well, way to go!
Life should always be open to inventive ways even if it's only in our dreams. Could be surfing the waves of your mind coincides with what shrinks bring to bear when you lie on their couch but it would be a three ring circus to go any further.
You started so slow and dreamy, slowly escalating to the grace and fantasma of acrobats. It made me think of the excitement I felt from our anniversary, floating for days afterward. A wondrous write!
(whether fantasma is a word or not, I don't know, but it seems to fit!)
Connie
I just so love the way you brought us from the outside in, and it felt like I was getting to look inside that Easter egg, or a magical kaleidescope. Fabulous poem!!!
Blessings,
Christine
Early Works is an exhaustive compilation of the first decade of the poems and stories of Z.B.McClure. Included are family photos, rare personal photos, photos of 1st draft manuscripts of many of his early poems. Also some biography and memoir materia
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Cryssa
Lovely. :)
Axilea
Sheila
God bless you,
Kathy
Regis
Anyway, I have this love deeply within my soul that cannot be touched but by only that "special" soul...I am still waiting for him to come to grips with destiny...So dreaming is my option at the moment just like you said inventiveness of dreams...that is a beautiful place for right now. I will find the patience and fortitude to hang in there, and wait for "love"...I LOVE This poem, it brings the tenderness out of me...xo :)
Peace, love and light,
Amber "V"
(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.
"my dulcet mind the
soft-glow lamp
that lights your
blue whale dark"...Amazing word play, as is your entire poem..A M A Z I N G !!!
May you find the love you write about
Chels xx
Georg
Love,
Sage
"...safe in the crook.." and "...blue whale dark.." are beyond perfect
and those 'tightrope-walking spectacles' well, way to go!
John
Be always safe,
Karen
Cheers,
Dan
fee
(((HUGS))) and much love, your friend in America, Karen Lynn in Texas. :D
You got me old heart jumping. I epecially like the imagery
of these lines:
the tidal seas of my
moon-lit breath surfing
the moods of your soul?
-gene.
(whether fantasma is a word or not, I don't know, but it seems to fit!)
Connie
Blessings,
Christine
Love is tough...and very hard to handle at times...like an acrobat losing its balance....do or die!!
Love Tinka