Thursday, February 7, 2008

I Wrote Of Horses Comments

Rating: 5.0

and the smell of grain, a full-bodied musk
dull as sweaty leather saddles
but tantalizing as the taste of grass, fresh and
sharply saccharine.
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Christine Austin Cole 31 July 2008

Oh, this is fabulous! I absolutely adore its textures, sensory telling, magic. I'm an absolute sucker for poems just like this - when a poet snatches a moment and lies it down on the page as perfectly and precisley as humanly possible. If you get it just right, as you have here, there is no need to do anything more than to slip in a single word or two (if any at all) to convey how you feel about that moment, how that moment made you feel. It's in the telling... as it should be, I think. I'd so much rather 'see' the moment through the poet's eyes than the poet in the moment - in the former, you get both, in the latter, I think, something (the wonder of it all) is missing. The whole of this is excellent... and the ending is absolutely divine. Love this! Christine

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