The First Three Lines Comments
The first line is written on a blank page,
and the second line follows without any strain.
I have completed what must happen first,
and the rest will come forth with a kind of ease.
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The third line is the first step toward abundance. It is the synthesis after the thesis and antithesis. It is also the move toward concreteness after the posing of two complementary principles. From an abstract or metaphysical tension we move toward the texture of a real-world resolution. The resolution can never happen the same way twice, because as you say, the poetic space is filled with possibilities.
This is wonderful, Denis: IT IS AN INTELLECTUAL GRASP OF THE POEM'S DEVELOPMENT.Emotions are the flesh of the poem, but intellect provides the skeleton. A poem is thus both soft and hard, part of it is rigid and part malleable. Your paragraph articulates this intellectual component which is often sadly neglected.
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8/5/2025 5:42:25 AM # 1.0.0
I have never been terribly fond of poems whose theme is the writing of poems. Then along comes Daniel Brick. I swear I'm going to give up preferences because sooner or later along comes Daniel Brick. He oughta come on a Harley motorcycle, wearing jeans and a black leather jacket and have a theme music. Daniel, I surrender. I enjoyed and savored and nodded my head in agreement throughout and now I must admit liking a poem about the writing of a poem. Now I think I will go thud-thud-thud my head against the wall cuz sure as shooting you will write your next poem about basketball and guess what sport I have exactly zero fondness for hearing about much less reading about... and soon I'll be having to say I like a poem about basketball..... As usual, Daniel, your poem breathes life into poetry. 10's upon 10's
Thanks much for your really in=depth encounter with my poem.. I hope I can continue to surprise and delight you, because that means my poem has worked its proper magic. Every poem should be a journey of self discovery, as Shakespeare put it in his last play, ALL OF US (FOUND) OURSELVES WHEN NO MAN WAS HIS OWN. And as you put it so wonderfully, each poem should breathe life into poetry. That's how we should measure our success.