tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post7913153945669638418..comments2024-03-22T10:51:23.567-05:00Comments on Faith, Fiction, Friends: The Arrow ShotGlynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802111972232088511noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-3183609902457221582010-12-20T09:55:54.436-06:002010-12-20T09:55:54.436-06:00Truly, playing up on this sense of being trapped, ...Truly, playing up on this sense of being trapped, like a prison or an asylum, I felt, throughout the early progression of the piece...encroaching danger, encroaching horror, eerie to the final stanza but then...this melancholy sort of hope, that never breaks the flow nor the voice of the work. I like it. It is a horror of a thing throughout much of the progression, but I like it, for it progresses and expresses very nicely.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-42843724124009234142010-12-19T20:58:36.748-06:002010-12-19T20:58:36.748-06:00I appreciate what you found, though it is a rather...I appreciate what you found, though it is a rather eerie image, sir. <br /><br />I actually woke up to the prompt through reading your post. *laugh* I rarely skip your posts unless there are a couple hundred articles in my in-box due to the slowing of poor health or distractions.<br /><br />Thank you, also, for letting me know that the words I wrote translated so well into your mind.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02241614773022487007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-59716405471026688242010-12-19T18:19:01.164-06:002010-12-19T18:19:01.164-06:00oooh darker yet..holocaust, death camps, Argentine...oooh darker yet..holocaust, death camps, Argentine killing centers. Our minds went many directions today and all with such force and fine poetry. The songs of love, of death, of freedom. What a prompt! Thank you for this fine precise piece. Well written! Gay @beachannyBeachannyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08638256396472533685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-24452141822672274922010-12-19T17:15:21.685-06:002010-12-19T17:15:21.685-06:00I heard the cruelty and pain in the back round and...I heard the cruelty and pain in the back round and it reminded me of death camps and hiding from that threat. Death can certainly be the ultimate threat or release<br /><br />Nicely penned my friendmoondustwriterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09848554806751678968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-70529844979339210222010-12-19T15:35:35.925-06:002010-12-19T15:35:35.925-06:00loved your opening two lines...just fitted so well...loved your opening two lines...just fitted so well...great write my friend...cheers peteMarshyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08029232967141290634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-33734984308007536212010-12-19T14:41:44.967-06:002010-12-19T14:41:44.967-06:00This reminds me of the Bob Dylan lyric that goes &...This reminds me of the Bob Dylan lyric that goes "it is not poison, you will not die."Fireblossomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-54647715616695470312010-12-19T14:11:23.269-06:002010-12-19T14:11:23.269-06:00oh glynn this gave me shivers - such a lot of dept...oh glynn this gave me shivers - such a lot of depth in your poem - loved esp. ..lose yourself for a time in the gray line of my words..Claudiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03011763027311966186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-29215082158892078172010-12-19T13:57:37.279-06:002010-12-19T13:57:37.279-06:00Your last stanza is especially striking. I keep re...Your last stanza is especially striking. I keep returning to "in the gray line of my words".Maureenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13290283101378474845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-28842112903924544152010-12-19T13:30:01.172-06:002010-12-19T13:30:01.172-06:00The true asylum of pain. Excellent darkness here G...The true asylum of pain. Excellent darkness here Glynn, you thoroughly caught the moment!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-67364742788987910422010-12-19T12:40:59.530-06:002010-12-19T12:40:59.530-06:00Out of the darkness and into the light...a poem th...Out of the darkness and into the light...a poem that almost gives a meaning to suffering and fear, very difficult to both name them so clearly and resolve them as well, but your strong conclusion works, I think. Well done.hedgewitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13090696134322515899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-84947508688100720962010-12-19T11:45:49.787-06:002010-12-19T11:45:49.787-06:00love the last stanza Glynn...lost in the words...t...love the last stanza Glynn...lost in the words...thank you...blessings...bkmsigned...bkmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03558304976280070986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-57344863373411015772010-12-19T10:59:47.138-06:002010-12-19T10:59:47.138-06:00take me to Your garden, Lord
down the golden path ...take me to Your garden, Lord<br />down the golden path of your word<br />into the light of your GloryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-9195888415145284732010-12-19T10:28:31.801-06:002010-12-19T10:28:31.801-06:00Night (Wiesel) comes to mind, as does paranoia or ...Night (Wiesel) comes to mind, as does paranoia or someone dealing with PTSD. Very powerful poem, Glynn.dustushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07796500077556153584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-50661997986646835462010-12-19T09:43:25.476-06:002010-12-19T09:43:25.476-06:00Powerful imagery Glynn.
"lose yourself for a...Powerful imagery Glynn.<br /><br />"lose yourself for a time<br />in the gray line of my words<br />you will not die"<br /><br />Wow!Louise Gallagherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13522775693728655487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-19988726486887444232010-12-19T09:02:35.230-06:002010-12-19T09:02:35.230-06:00Excellent interpretation of photo. I have been re...Excellent interpretation of photo. I have been reading "Night" by Elie Wiesel the past few days and your words sychorinized with the images that had been rolling around my mind.Jerryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04874006676004790578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-8147832602771185412010-12-19T09:00:54.177-06:002010-12-19T09:00:54.177-06:00So sad, death... I took the other route... love.
...So sad, death... I took the other route... love. <br /><br />Thanks for the visit and nice comment. Gigi Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08092019687497845746noreply@blogger.com