A Wish Comments

sadness is what feeds our souls to remind us to appreciate all else.

Your poems are perfumed with pleasure, grains of salt, and a bit of pepper which all together make them more delectible. It's that lingering-on question of what exactly is not said that interests me. I have been reading Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier and the question is brought up about contrasts and opposites. Is it always a question of only opposites or is it more like the opposite banks of a river with the flowing waters in between? This book revolves around William Blake the famous poet. Jem, one of the characters says, 'The World... what lies between two opposites is us.' We are in the middle of the river. Mr Blake then says, 'Yes, my boy....The tensions between contraries is what makes us ourselves. We have not just one, but the other too, mixing and slashing and sparking inside us. Not just light, but dark. Not just at peace, but at war. Not just innocent, but experienced....It is a lesson we could all do well to learn, to see all the world in a flower.'

We have to live between pairs of opposites-good and bad, sadness and happiness, hot and cold and so on-then only thrill exists in our day to day lives. Your poem is found excellent in its content.

Oh...you hit that one on the head.....something to look forward too when I get out of bed: O)