(Note: There plenty to be thankful for this week, including a full week of new work from Co-Editor Dale Williams Barrigar. He is truly an encouraging and talent person, and I’m certain that readers will agree–Leila)
Twirling
around
around
around
like falling
your naked arms
fly down
to your
bare toes
almost as if
you
were
really there.
Saragun Springs 
Dale,
For me this twirls like a dancer, who further reminds me of the ballerina in the jar created by Dr. Protorious in The Bride of Frankenstein. As with all good poetry, the emotions are singular; beauty and sadness here, even longing.
Leila
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Thank you, Leila!
Beauty, sadness and longing sound like good words to sum this up. I wanted the image/s to be crystal clear and the atmosphere and meaning/s to be less so.
The word “longing” made me think of Leonard Cohen’s book The Book of Longing, which is about…well, I guess the title says it all.
In the early 2010s I knew some Buddhists who used to sit around and listen to his album Ten New Songs over and over again. They said it caught the essence of what they meant by Buddhism.
My favorite song from that album is “In My Secret Life.” Actually, probably my favorite Leonard song of all time – if I were forced to choose just one for the desert island.
Thanks again!
Dale
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Hello Dale
Yes that is a great record and songs.
Cohen was great to the end “You Want it Darker” is brilliant, and not for his age or for fighting through illness, but because it is brilliant.
Leila
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Hi Dale
Great picture! it has an air of promiscuity. I really like your photography work. It’s a great bonus to your writing.
Wonderful use of language. Paints a beautiful vision for the reader, so many things said and unsaid.
I like:
“around
around
around”
You tell a haunting story. It reminds me how Carver could pick up the action of a story –immediately.
It’s fun and educational to see and study the poetry on here!
Christopher
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Thank you, Christopher!
Poetry should be fun, educational, and something one can study: all three things rolled into one as well as separate entities. Without the fun, there is no poetry, and without the educational aspect as well, there is also no poetry. (There are many definitions of the term “educational” in this context; spiritual, imaginative, philosophical, historical, satirical, etc etc etc…)
“You tell a haunting story.” That is a brilliant sentence that I will carry around with me, thank you!
I adore trying to turn the simplest possible language into the most poetic thing I can make it into. I can also add that for every “success” I’ve come up with over the years (I started writing poetry in 2013, but prose poetry long before that), there have been many millions of things laying around on the cutting room floor almost all of which will never see the light of day.
You are a great reader of other people’s works as well as a great creator of your own.
D
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