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	An epigram of heartless love, ever ever seasonally cold; colder than the dead of Winter. Beautifully done in Sapphic style. 2 months ago	View
	Beautifully written, and beautifully received. As readers of this poem, you’ve brightened the spirits of us all. Thank you for this gift 2 months ago	View
	Oh, I enjoyed reading this poem. Habitually, for more than fifty years or so, I’ve had the persistent habit of writing backwards deliberately, and also writing from right to left; perhaps to have a better sense of time and space, especially since, for me, I find normal street directions a challenge, and get easily lost, both in my physical waking moments; and even more so in my dreams. Approaching 90 years soon, this habit continues to remain with me. So, I clearly see myself in this poem. Thank you, Luciana, for writing it. more » 2 months ago	View
	A festering wound. Let us pray for healing. 2 months ago	View
	A festering would requiring much more time for healing of body, mind, soul and spirit. Let us pray together communally for that cause to occur. 2 months ago	View
	Comparing the bullet flight of the train with the fanciful flight of the mind; the former transversing physical time and space, from the ‘old’ year to the ‘new’ year; the latter traversing mental time and space within the psychological framework of an Einstein model in which time and space are both relative. more » 2 months ago	View
	A thoughtful message. 2 months ago	View
	So nicely woven together are the threads of this poem linking desire with the absence of mindfulness and the consequence of pain and suffering. 2 months ago	View
	Sorry, Luciana. An old fogey like me obviously missed the poetic intent of your composition which is cleverly crafted and demonstrative of much talent. All the best for 2025. Happy New Year! 2 months ago	View
	Your poem exhibits two voices: the protagonist “why not me” self; and the thoughtful introspective parenthetical self urging the yet cautious protagonist to let loose of the self-imposed chains. It is a poem with a built-in self-empowerment theme. I would like to have seen in your poem a dialogue of “spoken words “between the two selves. Thank you for this message. more » 2 months ago	View
	A poem with a lovely metrical rhythm of trees dancing in the Autumn breeze. 2 months ago	View
	The ‘key’ to understanding this poem lies partially in the author’s use of two rabbinical Hebrew terms, employed to explicate and to contrast the human experience of inhabiting two distinctly different worlds of existence: (1), the experience of “olam ha-zeh” or to the material or physical world of flesh.” And, (2), the experience of “olam ha’ba” or to the immaterial or metaphorical world of spirit. In Christian theology, the divine Christ is said to exhibit this twin phenomena by being both “fully man” and “fully God.” more » 2 months ago	View
	The ‘key’ to this poem lies partially in the use of the Hebrew rabbinical phrase, “olam ha-zeh” (referring to “this world” or to the material or physical world of flesh); and in the Hebrew rabbinical phrase, “olam ha’ba” (referring “the next world “ or to the other non material, non physical world of Spirit.) This metaphysical argument suggests that, as mortals, we inhabit two dimensions; one physical and the other spiritual; as can be demonstrated psychologically by the composition of the human psyche of the ‘conscious self’ and ‘collective unconscious Self’ or, in Christian theological language, by the composition of the divine Christ as being “fully Man” and “fully God.” more » 2 months ago	View
	This is a classical case of the false application and employment of empirical argument, governing the physical, the material, to argue against and dismiss metaphysical phenomena. 2 months ago	View
	A poem for the Advent Season and the beckoning of our redemptive rebirth. 2 months ago	View
	Here’s my SELF laughing at my Ego. 2 months ago	View
	En verdad el amor sagrado no debe ser una conquista sino una celebración de la libertad compartida entre ellos que tienen mucho en común. Muchísimas gracias compadre por este mensaje. 2 months ago	View
	To paraphrase the bard, Sir William Shakespeare: “To our own selves be true. And it must follow, as the night, the day. We cannot then be false to any other man.” 2 months ago	View
	This poem is based on Murasaki Shikibu’s classical eleventh century masterpiece called “The Tale of Genji” composed during the Heian period of Japanese culture, literature and poetry. 2 months ago	View
	Thank you, Bella, for your courage, your strength, your emotional determination, and for maintaining a positive self-awareness, enough to be able to no longer remain silent, but to share with others a very traumatic early childhood experience. I give you a grandfather’s blessings. more » 2 months ago	View
	Dear Bella, John, and other readers of this poem, I wish to heartily thank you all for your supportive comments, and to share with you that there is a lovely word that provides much helpful insight into the nature of a mother’s love. The Biblical Hebrew word “racham” (רחם), suggesting “motherly love” or a mother’s love, is intimately related to the Hebrew word that is used for “womb” and is rendered sometimes as “mercy” as “compassion” or as “tender love” as specifically the love a parent (father or mother) has for a child. Again, my heartfelt thanks. more » 2 months ago	View
	“A voice for the lost, a keeper of light.” This last line of your poem provides a powerful ending that encapsulates the sentiments of your tender loving care for your departed wife. Those deep sentiments resonate strongly with a message of our Good Samaritan moral and ethical responsibilities we have and should display towards our family members and towards all others. more » 2 months ago	View
	Bella, thank you so much. 2 months ago	View
	Such is the course of our lives, pulled by the tide of time when, towards our ending, we can happily declare: “I fought the good fight. I won the race.” 2 months ago	View
	The yin-yang sentiments of human relationships. 2 months ago	View