Beyond - Legends A Still, Small Voice - A poem for the disenfranchised (Timeframe - VP) 9/26 Illustrations

I didn't see this the first time around.

Uh, I'm going to do what I usually do as a response to your poems here, and make no specific comments about it, because I know that if I tried to sit down and give a complete reply, one that can partly appreciate the richness of your writing, I would end up doing nothing else for the next three days, and I can't afford that long of a break from the real world.

All I can say is that it's beautiful. I love it.

 

Hey there, [b[CrazyRodian[/b].

Thanks again for the feedback - always much appreciated. I'm just glad you enjoyed it. Words are such fun to play around with - which is why I like poetry. One has more scope in poems than in prose.

Yup - the real world IS demanding. I would be nice to escape for a few days . . . But then in my case I'd ome back to piles of washing and people braying for food. LOL

 

Thanks so much for nominating this poem in the latest awards round. Very sweet of you.

 

You know I love poetry, can't write a lick of it though. I'm always grateful when awards time comes around because then I see the poems I missed through the noms process. As always your poetic voice is lovely and lyrical. Nominations well deserved here.

through mauve stipple and rose stripe
of countless dawns, the tiny plant clung

I don't know why by that was my favorite part.

 

And we will hear
no trumpet call
to mourn its passing,
only a still, small voice
on gossamer solar winds
crying into the infinite void:

Save us we are . . .

This is a brilliant stanza-plus of poetry. Absolutely brilliant.

I guess I should say something here: I always say that your poems just blow me away, shock me to no end. It's not that I'm surprised you're a good writer--on the contrary, I've always considered you the most talented writer I've read on the boards--it's that I never thought of the Star Wars universe as conducive to poetry. I've never been able to write a poem about something in the GFFA, because I've never looked at it as more than a silly make-believe world. So when I read a poem like this one, which is deep and true and beautiful and sad all at the same time, I am humbled. I mean, technically, you are a wonderful writer, but what pushes me over the edge is that you are so keenly aware of the depth behind things in the GFFA.

So bravo, and I hope that this poem wins in the awards, because it deserves it. Too bad all your poems can't win simultaneously.

 

TKL
Hi there and thanks for reading. Glad you enjoy poetry. A lot of people don't - which always makes me sad as I think it's such a rich form of communication. Poetry and song are, after all, the preferred medium of the ancients.

Glad also that that dawn image struck you as noteworthy. It's great to get feedback like that. The imagery is very important to me.

CrazyRodian
Shush, shush - danger of head swelling! LOL Seriously - that's very kind of you. Don't quite know what to say - except thanks.

It is true that my dad was really into admiring and preserving nature. He used to make 8mm movies of local flora and fauna, and I used to get dragged along to help. I still have the films - and they're surprisingly good. I guess the movies WERE his way of preserving things.