(............31aug) Stamps Comments

Hi Max, I just read this and you are a thinking-man's poet. Your words hold meaning and insight into something everyone using everyday....except for those bound to emails :) I wanted to thank you also for commenting on my poem Jaguar, and yes I was inspired to write that poem from the poem The Panther and by Blake's Tiger.

Max - Can owning a stamp, feel like having tasted and swallowed little bits of the world without standing on their soil? The internet now opens those doors for the travel-averse. Sadly, very few now pen a letter to communicate, and attach an inexpensive 'stamp' to safely fly it into unseen lands. This poem took me back, back, back. Thanks Max

Those last two lines put an entirely different, further perspective on what was already a piece of vibrance and complexity. t x

Sounds like you are not just an excellent writer but a stamp collector as well. Just bought on 8/31 new ones that say celebrate that I won't be doing as I post them on this months bills, but, at least they're colorful. Great write, certainly different than mine of ~~8~~31~~07. marci. :)

i totally agree with Daniel Tyler... that is exactly how i respond to this poem, Max... strange, but i hv just the same words for this one! Asma...

It's said that a good poem is one that readers recreate in themselves...I've dusted off my mental album stamped with memories...that first Woolworth red album with four or so spaces each for states that no longed existed even then...why did I have so many stamps from Bayern/Bavaria...? Thanks, Max...

i had totally forgotten about all the colourful stamps i used to have as a kid.. thank you for reminding me!

(comment from yesterday) : Daniel Tyler (8/31/2007 3: 22: 00 PM) Haha a marvellous poem about stamp-collecting, Max. In a way this says so much about history too, of the colonies and the Second World War. You select the quirkiest memories and present them beautifully.