Soul Serenade Comments

Nika, I am stunned by your poem - it is a poem in which truth and beauty are in perfect balance, which is not always possible to achieve when you are wrestling with words as we poets are always doing. But here the two highest qualities of literature, namely, truth and beauty, are pitch-perfect. I will have to re-read this several times before I can write my customary commentary, so that's yet to come, but let me add right now a parallel - John Keats (one of my masters I realize clearly now) wrote BEAUTY IS TRUTH, TRUTH IS BEAUTY - THAT IS ALL YE KNOW ON EARTH, AND ALL YE NEED TO KNOW. I've always had trouble with that blanket statement, but your poem gives me a genuine poem that illustrates its accuracy. Now I can wrap my mind around it, with your SOUL SERENADE providing the convincing, no, PERSUASIVE proof.