Cranfields Holy Well Comments

I have encountered atmospheres like this, for instance on Cape Perpetua in Yachats, Oregon. There is a memorial to a blind native woman who suffered greatly in her lifetime. The memorial is reachable by Amanda's Trail. Your phrases votive tinsel, plastic knots and cotton strips would make a good description for the decorations left around Amanda's stature. Now you have me wanting to write a poem about this. I'm rating your poem a 10, Your poem uncannily reminds me of mine: The Tank at the End of Sanskrit Street, Gokarna. Both poems are about the special atmosphere around a small body of water. In my way I express a thought similar to yours: to scan and frame this place of pilgrimage/ takes more sense than the eye.

Hello Barney i love this poem there are quite a few holy wells in my area.The last seven lines of your poem are absolutely beautiful i felt i had taken a dander to stand at the holy well [lovely word dander] i give this a ten