Echoes No.7: The Island Comments
The Island you desire
is neither near nor far.
It is both accessible and
completely out of reach.
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Ain't that just the way that life goes down, up, round...moving way too fast or much too slow... Daniel...you always get to the point of the circle...its in the echo of sound that truth is found and resounds.
Wonderful comment, Dawn! I appreciate how you don't just read a poem, but live through the experience of it. That shows the poetic spirit within you. Octavio Paz said the purpose of poetry - reading and writing it - is to turn people into living poems! !
lines got bigger and bigger then suddenly stopped, like Ravel's Bolero.
Wow! Douglas, that's a startling comment on the impact of my poem. I admit the poem went in a direction I had not planned in the first draft. But I believe the art of writing a poem involves an intelligence other than my own. (BTW I too like that collapse at the end of BOLERO.)
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My life can really begin! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.