tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post3377104593930707143..comments2024-03-28T05:18:54.680-04:00Comments on Shay's Word Garden (Poetry & Such Like): Knife & BasketFireblossomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-20642588598393696632015-08-13T18:15:09.594-04:002015-08-13T18:15:09.594-04:00Sitting on a porch swing overlooking the Great Smo...Sitting on a porch swing overlooking the Great Smoke Mtns. Rest of family is hiking but my youngest son needed a rare nap so I volunteered to stay behind. just read 30 minutes of reading Seamus Heaney (whom i adore) and now am "in the Garden" and this poem thrills me with its style and content just as much. !! Thank you. Margarethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00007201357693227614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-47757367827279578352015-08-10T18:46:32.326-04:002015-08-10T18:46:32.326-04:00"lift melancholy..move the moon" We ask..."lift melancholy..move the moon" We ask so much of something when grief comes, but if there is the slightest hope pain will lessen we must try. BeautifulSusie Clevengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09239990133754328967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-88254770558160462072015-08-09T16:28:54.686-04:002015-08-09T16:28:54.686-04:00Ah! Lovely rhyming.Ah! Lovely rhyming.Mystichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02694933319719914988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-42784043317680692012015-08-09T05:54:59.607-04:002015-08-09T05:54:59.607-04:00Your two verses are just so perfect in and of them...Your two verses are just so perfect in and of themselves - the balance you create rests on the hair's breadth of rhyme, rhythm and content. This is stylish poetry.Kerry O'Connorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00720862912375945249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-26936665278116341762015-08-09T05:25:39.960-04:002015-08-09T05:25:39.960-04:00stunning, SP! beautiful but it makes my heart ache...stunning, SP! beautiful but it makes my heart ache with longing....<br /><br />that's one of my favorite flowers and favorite paintings.<br /><br />♥my heart's love songshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13629303520695044479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-18585750757313656062015-08-08T12:34:46.483-04:002015-08-08T12:34:46.483-04:00Love the melancholic tone, smooth rhymes and peace...Love the melancholic tone, smooth rhymes and peace in the poem.humbirdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00106270909713851811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-65584296982777183952015-08-07T22:39:05.209-04:002015-08-07T22:39:05.209-04:00Shay, "move the moon," along with the &q...Shay, "move the moon," along with the "fool to love you, fool to miss you," wonderful wordcraft here. The addition of process notes, about the purple irises, only made me like it more. Thanks, AmyAmy Barlow Liberatore/Sharp Little Pencilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00546103899091072370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-60775363965540692322015-08-07T21:12:30.596-04:002015-08-07T21:12:30.596-04:00I love the mood and alliteration in this piece, Sh...I love the mood and alliteration in this piece, Shay. :)Hannahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10124956200834969600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-34390584578026205202015-08-07T16:17:23.762-04:002015-08-07T16:17:23.762-04:00This poem has a lovely lyrical quality to it. You ...This poem has a lovely lyrical quality to it. You change forms so easily it seems! And I even learned a bit about flowers!Lolamousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12508347229501155001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-43763918906063608582015-08-07T14:22:21.782-04:002015-08-07T14:22:21.782-04:00Terrific--wonderful use of some kind of form. k. Terrific--wonderful use of some kind of form. k. Outlawyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15698845661756444061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-54529929330199069422015-08-07T11:10:34.880-04:002015-08-07T11:10:34.880-04:00To me, the title and some of the language in the p...To me, the title and some of the language in the poem makes it sound sexual. By the end, I gather that a relationship, perhaps a marriage, has been dissolved. (This is a symbolic funeral.) But you are still longing for its repair. I see you mulling over the possibility of inviting in a sexual relationship (maybe even with your "dearly departed"), but you know even before it begins that it will not replace all that has been lost or fill the hole inside you. You become the empty vase. But your partner has destroyed the roots you once planted together. So any "filling" would only be skin deep.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-67165492472439558232015-08-07T09:16:28.321-04:002015-08-07T09:16:28.321-04:00An enchanting and lovely piece. An enchanting and lovely piece. Blogorattihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12821621371176285384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-7773163816220417192015-08-07T09:00:19.199-04:002015-08-07T09:00:19.199-04:00So beautiful and tender. Really lovely.So beautiful and tender. Really lovely.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-86723670508528714152015-08-07T07:30:35.836-04:002015-08-07T07:30:35.836-04:00Gorgeous. This is breathtaking (and not Seinfeld &...Gorgeous. This is breathtaking (and not Seinfeld "breathtaking," either).Sioux Roslawskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17924021828536277618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-65864725830351308692015-08-07T03:51:22.631-04:002015-08-07T03:51:22.631-04:00Oh I really love the end hear, how can the best of...Oh I really love the end hear, how can the best of vases ever replace the root? brudberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12563403553536472377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-21963418511740310662015-08-07T00:12:42.849-04:002015-08-07T00:12:42.849-04:00Wow. It is always a small gesture for such a large...Wow. It is always a small gesture for such a large space and meaning. Such a lifting! You have captured it and goddesses too.Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05723639294340760325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-14863857456504919572015-08-06T19:29:12.318-04:002015-08-06T19:29:12.318-04:00This form is like a flawless vase itself, that hol...This form is like a flawless vase itself, that holds the uplifted flowers of your words, to let them breathe to us their fragrance of sweetness and hope, despite the severed root, despite the fruitless end of a cut flower--though your words can never be fruitless, but carry the seeds of so much that is renewing and beautiful. Very soothing to read this today in my tiredness. I am glad you met up with Ms Millay.hedgewitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13090696134322515899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-81893960720592840032015-08-06T14:37:07.211-04:002015-08-06T14:37:07.211-04:00Damn it, girl! This is outstanding!Damn it, girl! This is outstanding!Maude Lynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03669688074743095866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-49378624879229482642015-08-06T12:39:14.539-04:002015-08-06T12:39:14.539-04:00Absolutely impeccable. Sigh. "Move the moon.....Absolutely impeccable. Sigh. "Move the moon...."Sherry Blue Skyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10769154286598233146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-33685674105868868912015-08-06T12:10:52.132-04:002015-08-06T12:10:52.132-04:00Interesting rhymes!Interesting rhymes!Cloudiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05853753108637831069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-71724672809481718142015-08-06T11:43:18.026-04:002015-08-06T11:43:18.026-04:00i just love how you can change techniques so well!...i just love how you can change techniques so well! truly impressive!TexWisGirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13641962051044162710noreply@blogger.com