Across Time Part One For Liza Comments

Thank you Daniel. I was very happy after reading this poem.and many lines were dedicated to you after this.

She greets certainty everyday and this achieves grace and peace. Very nice and thoughtful poem shared here in this context. Wise sharing definitely....10

I loved this poem due to its amazing diction, the narrative technique (particularly the use of enjambments, which for some reason I found enchanting perhaps because it gives the subject matter of the poem a structural support, i.e. helps the sentences continue like Time) . The elipsis before the final couplet is a masterstroke because, for me, it leaves an interesting space for interpretation of this poem from two (or maybe many more) point of views: a) I assume any reader will need a 'willing suspension of disbelief' to read this poem and thus the first interpretation of this marvellous poem will be in the lines of fantasy and mysticism perhaps.. b) One can however, because of those small three dots take a different approach - maybe the speaker was dreaming all along, and woke up only to fall asleep once again... I don't know which one I would like to choose, both seem fascinating to me.. Another thing which I found interesting is that (and correct if I am wrong, my understanding of History is not always very sharp) the poem begins in the Greek Classical age and then follows into Renaissance (a reference to the Crusades? ?) and, while, speaking from a 'intellectual' point of view both those eras provided some of the greatest philosophers, and artists, the 'dark' side of those eras remained mostly ignored, which I feel this poem attempts to unveil... So, again, does this poem too, like the 'Old Astronomer' and 'Port Trakl' poems hints at how we actually fail to look underneath the surface? ? The 'deep' and 'hidden' truth(s) of what we consider 'civilisation' and 'knowledge' and everything else? ? I feel like it... A brilliant poem Daniel sir.. Loved it for the goosebumps...