This is freaking amazing!! I love how you used the lines and how you spaced the words to add emotion to the story, and the last line caught me off guard, leaving me grinning and wishing for more. I am forever going to think about the winding pathways of memory like this.
I've never read a poem about the experience of reincarnation before, and this grabbed me right away. I could picture it, this person tumbling through this abyss, questions racing in their head, their final transformation. That in their last form they seem to find peace and come to an understanding of their true identity makes perfect sense to me.
Wow, what a beautiful representation of the brain's tendency toward compartmentalization -- and the heart's ability to muck up that filing system with all its messy emotions, huh? You took the library metaphor all the way, which I delighted in reading. Your last line expressed your wit and strength of character, and had exactly the impact I'm sure you were hoping it'd have.
"Fairy Tale Children" is being featured this week on vtdigger.org, which you can all check out now (vtdigger.org/life-culture) in their Life & Culture section!
This is the beauty of people-watching, isn't it? I loved this for that reason: You saw the possibilities, the many lives of this stranger... I almost wished you had taken it further, ran with one of those lives and personalities, but I realized describing a fully fleshed-out character is not what this poem is meant to convey!
This is freaking amazing!! I love how you used the lines and how you spaced the words to add emotion to the story, and the last line caught me off guard, leaving me grinning and wishing for more. I am forever going to think about the winding pathways of memory like this.
Wow! Thanks so much for deciding to publish this! It's so cool.
I've never read a poem about the experience of reincarnation before, and this grabbed me right away. I could picture it, this person tumbling through this abyss, questions racing in their head, their final transformation. That in their last form they seem to find peace and come to an understanding of their true identity makes perfect sense to me.
Wow, what a beautiful representation of the brain's tendency toward compartmentalization -- and the heart's ability to muck up that filing system with all its messy emotions, huh? You took the library metaphor all the way, which I delighted in reading. Your last line expressed your wit and strength of character, and had exactly the impact I'm sure you were hoping it'd have.
"Winter Sun" is being featured this week on vtdigger.org, which you can all check out now (vtdigger.org/life-culture) in their Life & Culture section!
"Fairy Tale Children" is being featured this week on vtdigger.org, which you can all check out now (vtdigger.org/life-culture) in their Life & Culture section!
This is the beauty of people-watching, isn't it? I loved this for that reason: You saw the possibilities, the many lives of this stranger... I almost wished you had taken it further, ran with one of those lives and personalities, but I realized describing a fully fleshed-out character is not what this poem is meant to convey!
I remember not being able to put down The Secret History when I read it years ago!
I'll give this a go:
There is so much heart to this. It's one of those photos that just instantly conveys a message and an emotion, and is of course beautiful as well.
This is probably a sight that very few people in the world will ever see! May I ask where you were? Were you on a cruise?