Friday, May 23, 2014

Sensing Our Ways Comments

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By sensing our ways
Groping and
Scuffling
Hoarding and
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Emmanuel George Cefai
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Daniel Brick 23 July 2014

TIME is one of our key subjects as lyric poets and your recent poem is a concise and pithy overview of our confrontation. You cities five activities by which we deal, namely, sensing, groping, hoarding, scuffling, hoarding and pondering. Hoarding won't work and groping sounds desperate. But pondering - which is what your poem does - affirms our dignity as thinking animals who can mentally transcend that sardonic smile. As Andrew Marvell advised LET US OUR TIME DEVOUR, THAN LANGUISH IN HIS POWER. We triumph!

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Patti Masterman 24 May 2014

Bruno Schulz coveted time. He said time shared was time wasted, he was like a jealous lover with time. Yes, we trim time, we crop it closely (like a beard) and think that it will behave! well it never will. You have put it succinctly.

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Colleen Courtney 23 May 2014

Ha! Love this poem! Beautiful ending! ! ! ! !

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Emmanuel George Cefai

Emmanuel George Cefai

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