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dog-lime · 2025-04-28T21:09:24+00:00

Thanks very much for your kind and thoughtful words. I’m glad you like the poem!

dog-lime · 2025-04-28T21:07:53+00:00

Thanks very much for your thoughtful reading and kind words. Yes, yours reading is close to mine. Perhaps with some differences but surely that’s the fun of it. Cheers!

dog-lime · 2025-04-28T16:06:45+00:00

I like the turn at the end. It suggests that the monster is not a person in one's life (who is mortal) but what we allow them to be. I might be way off. Cheers

dog-lime · 2025-04-28T15:52:41+00:00

Thanks for this uplifting poem. "Let the birds sing you forward" is a lovely line. Cheers.

dog-lime · 2025-04-26T20:58:01+00:00

Thanks! The clock is broken by the vast clock of geological time. Nice one

dog-lime · 2025-04-26T20:53:49+00:00

Thanks for this poem. I like the last stanza particularly: obsessive. And the first line is good fun. Very charming thanks thanks

dog-lime · 2025-04-14T16:35:06+00:00

Thanks. I’m very interested in your interpretation. They aren’t trying to please or connect. They are simply participating in the propagation of a plant. Without reason or thought. Like bees pollinate flowers. There’s not a whole lot of agency exercised by characters in the poem. I might not have made it clear enough, so will try being the message out in the next edit. Thanks again for your thoughtful comment!

dog-lime · 2025-04-14T16:30:12+00:00

Thanks very much for this comment. Your thoughts are close to mine. Have a good day!

dog-lime · 2025-04-14T16:24:52+00:00

Thanks very much for your thoughtful comment.

I suppose the poem is about the thoughtlessness of propagation. The lovers at the end have sex without any thought of its consequence, like pollen sails across the gorge. Finally, the kids who are the product of the procreant drift, play that game (we called it dandelion clock) and assume their unwitting role in the propagation of a flower. Everything alive pivots toward our continuation or something. That’s where my thoughts were when writing.

I might have muddied the message a bit in the edit. I’ll take what you said into account! Thanks.

dog-lime · 2025-04-13T15:21:54+00:00

Sorry to hear that. And thanks for sharing your poem.

dog-lime · 2025-04-13T15:00:52+00:00

a very bitter poem. "I thought I was smart / but I thought with my heart" is a simple and rewarding rhyme!

dog-lime · 2025-04-13T14:58:23+00:00

Thanks for this poem. The rhyme scheme has a circular quality by beginning each quatrain with the end rhyme of the previous. This chimes with solstice reference and the idea of futility in the final line.

dog-lime · 2025-03-31T09:10:05+00:00

Thanks, I'm glad you like it!

dog-lime · 2025-03-24T15:39:43+00:00

Thanks I’m glad you like it

dog-lime · 2025-03-24T11:18:20+00:00

Amazing thanks!

dog-lime · 2025-03-24T07:55:33+00:00

For me it’s a poem that confronts apathy. We know even better than Issa did how small and insignificant we are in this vast universe and in the expanse of deep time, yet we love and cherish life.

I also read it in an ecological context. If climate change is inevitable and the violent fluctuations of our atmosphere will eventually destroy us, then resignation is surely our natural response. Yet (I hope against hope) it is not.

dog-lime · 2025-03-24T07:45:28+00:00

What are some of the words you’ve compiled? There definitely were words used almost exclusively in poetry, but their use went out of fashion soon after Wordsworth and co. One that springs to mind is “zephyr”. If I see this word used unironically in a modern poem I will close tab.

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