Sunday, March 10, 2019

The Gloaming Comments

Rating: 5.0

For a long time I've wanted to go into the gloaming
Let me go with it, right to the threshold of seeing.
I've been wondering why it has a tinge of blueness,
Is it a balm against the day's blood-soaked passions?
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Denis Mair
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jim hogg 17 April 2020

How much do they tell us about us, their creators/users? Or the actual thing/phenomenon they're supposed to represent? Or the borders where meanings merge, where maybe we blend into them, where maybe there's a harmonising effect at work, or where, more simply, minds may meet, however oddly. Glad I met this work of yours, Denis. Was a pleasure to read, and rattled the grey matter. Thank you.

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jim hogg 17 April 2020

But " gloaming" ? I think that deserves a bigger tent; is in fact (?) a big tent. But then, the gloamin' isn't a small thing! It steers our imagination towards the sizable dimensions of the thing itself, and because it's a little opaque or maybe even a lot, it possibly has the power to evoke mystery perhaps, if not possibilities. How much power do words have over us?

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jim hogg 17 April 2020

Words, meanings, emotions and the portals that lead from each of those into the other, or all, in some cases. Is there something infinite contained in the word " infinite" ? Sometimes I think of words as tents. " Break" would normally have/be a small tent imv as it doesn't seem to me to enclose (in itself) any great mysteries, though we ourselves can tie a web of allusions - with branches no doubt - to it.

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Laurie Van Der Hart 13 April 2019

I love that time of day, the light is very special. You might like to take a look at my poem “Beauty in the Bronx”.

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Laurie Van Der Hart 13 April 2019

Lovely poem and interesting. Yes, why is it called “the gloaming” when it’s not a place, but a time of day? I think I’ve asked myself the same question. ‘Roaming in the gloaming, on the bonny banks of Clyde...’ You’ve made it into a mysterious, enticing place. I read that ‘gloaming’ comes from the verb ‘to glow.’

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Me Poet Yeps Poet 25 March 2019

o GREAT poet CHIINESE POETRY IS OUT COMING FROM OUR HOT OVEN would you care to read my MOMS SMILES PLEASE.

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Martin Winter 23 March 2019

I like the roadside plants. Thank you

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Me Poet Yeps Poet 14 March 2019

very philosophical poetry lovely Chinese now would you like to read my poem MOMS SMILES KINDLY DO

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Bharati Nayak 10 March 2019

A highly philosopical write that ruminates into the meaning of the word 'the gloaming', its special significance of associating always with the word 'the'- - -'t' trails off you can not pinpoint its ending moment- - Like sun light, life's gloaming moment comes- -it goes out of sight, but again reappears in a new sun.

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