This is gut-wrenchingly real and visceral, Dawn, while yet allowing the reader the privacy of space to read through the metaphor and analogy: perhaps that's what makes it just so powerful, allowing its impact to have full force. Facing the truth is never without consequences and risk, and hence, so many lives spiral on out of kilter and unbalanced by a reality that is forever denied. Tender, penetrating - and heartbreaking! And, to boot, your poetry is of its usual high standards of tightness, skill and considered make-up. TY and bless you, Kate xx
this poem vibrates with an internal energy, captivating the mind & soul with the essence of a probing heart ... the alliteration, meter and metaphor are meticulously empowering, questioning what is and what may have been if only love would take the time to listen to itself ...
Your use of metaphor mingles through the verse taking what could easily be read at face value and adding a deeper layer that strikes deep into the heart. Your ability to blend both in such a cohesive manner shows your amazing talents as a writer.
Take care,
Sherry
Reviewed by Andy Turner (Reader)
Reviewed on November 5, 2005
Such great intelligent metaphors. The fifth stanza says so much.
Good question at the end...
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
Using Calgary as a backdrop the author satirizes the self-serving nature of the public as it continues to fatten itself, not only physically, but egotistically as well.
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Take care,
Sherry
Good question at the end...
tune our last dance tribute to past"
Oh how I can relate to this and it's so well captured.
Love Tinka
Carmen :-)
peace,
Carolyn
you have brightened this with colors of wisdom and creativity. Excellent poem
Abdi-Noor
Love,
Eileen