Saturday, December 17, 2005

Alptraum Comments

Rating: 4.1

Under the mistletoe,
a hundred yards below
King Ludwig's castle,
she lay, mortally wounded
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Herbert Nehrlich
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Mahnaz Zardoust-Ahari 17 December 2005

Very intense poem...bad way to go.

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Cj Heck 17 December 2005

Very powerful, Herbert. Wild boars are very mean - what an awful way to die. I enjoyed reading this one. Warmest regards and respect, CJ

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Joseph Daly 17 December 2005

Lovely use of metaphor Herbert. My impression is that this concerns yearning for an image (of a person) and that image turns out to be misreprentative. That you chose to use the mistletoe either as in it's traditional modern day use (a very shrewd move for this time of year) or as the ingredient in a pagan love potion, is very imaginative

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