Hi Maryann,
Prolific or what?
This is canny, this is dizzyingly good! A fine (loosely shaped) (but tightly
written/controlled) sonnet! I have a feeling the feeling it's got to will
stay with me in the words you've caught it with. I've a feeling the last
(sonnet-sort-of) couplet bit (you use three lines for it, but that adds to
it!) will stay in my head for so long (re-emerge so many times). I find I
can repeat the lines without looking at them. That's what poems do - stay
there. As well as feeling praise, I feel envy!
Bob


>From: Maryann Hazen-Stearns <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: New Sub: Voices From The Edge
>Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 07:08:30 -0800
>
>Hi All,
>
>Here's another one for today.
>
>~*~
>
>Voices From The Edge
>
>
>We are often on the verge of communication.
>We wonder if there is anything left to say.
>We hear words well up from our throats,
>see the expressions voiced by the gesticulations
>of our hands and crossed legs but we want more
>or less, depending. We pretend we give a shit.
>
>We feel we deserve the truth as we touch the edge
>of each others ears but never go further than that.
>We worry what the other will think. We cry
>about the lack of understanding, we understand
>nothing about misunderstanding and we cannot
>comprehend why we do not understand.
>
>We dream of connections, try to connect,
>and hope the wire that hangs from the socket
>is still alive.
>
>~*~
>
>Cheerwell, Mary :O)
>
>=====
>Good Cheer & Be Well,
>Maryann Hazen-Stearns
>"Under The Limbo Stick"
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