tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post4877666726450973570..comments2024-03-28T19:48:05.247-04:00Comments on Shay's Word Garden (Poetry & Such Like): The Girl With The Arrow Through Her HeadFireblossomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-31299581007485505102013-12-05T09:26:46.677-05:002013-12-05T09:26:46.677-05:00This is so cool and trippy. Love this, girl!This is so cool and trippy. Love this, girl!Maude Lynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03669688074743095866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-69636488666759289012013-12-03T05:06:54.135-05:002013-12-03T05:06:54.135-05:00I want to grab the sleeves of everyone I know and ...I want to grab the sleeves of everyone I know and say "Read this! I know her (sort of a lie, but...) and this is just one example of her brilliance!" They would ask me where you are from. I would answer, "A place none of us has even heard of."<br /><br />Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11135393270656573516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-52703152047527975702013-12-02T21:53:13.363-05:002013-12-02T21:53:13.363-05:00Amazing!Amazing!Lynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13984802196897920610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-15876793574230393002013-12-02T15:28:00.289-05:002013-12-02T15:28:00.289-05:00I was intrigued by the same lines as Kerry - (one...I was intrigued by the same lines as Kerry - (one to many likes? in that last line, though? - and I feel just like…<br /><br />Each stanza is a bit different approach - indignant, practical, thankful, reminiscent, questioning, explanatory, dreamer, upbeat.<br /><br />…and everyone - creative.Margarethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00007201357693227614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-51395246174830506702013-12-02T15:16:47.198-05:002013-12-02T15:16:47.198-05:00Didn't Steve Martin start out with an arrow th...Didn't Steve Martin start out with an arrow through his head?<br /><br />But he's not near as eloquent as you!G-Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14968807697181554781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-46259267074439836902013-12-02T11:24:11.967-05:002013-12-02T11:24:11.967-05:00And yet, when you sleep, only the arrow sings to y...And yet, when you sleep, only the arrow sings to you.The Sentinelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09813396729517656270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-21928790367895585522013-12-02T10:44:16.739-05:002013-12-02T10:44:16.739-05:00Vivid and surreal, what seems to be a dream become...Vivid and surreal, what seems to be a dream becomes real, what seems real becomes a history lesson,tossed away, and the goblin fruit are, as always, most delicious of all, in a place where time turns on an arrow sundial and pretty much everything else becomes irrelevant. Pain is both defining and absolving here, Shay--excellent transmutation of Rossetti's penchant for writing out what makes memory pierce.hedgewitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13090696134322515899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-12376119838691338432013-12-02T04:59:22.144-05:002013-12-02T04:59:22.144-05:00
love the storyline and details...<br />love the storyline and details...Sumana Royhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17333363799083094084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-50619967137246835572013-12-02T01:16:49.126-05:002013-12-02T01:16:49.126-05:00she makes her dreams real. how many of us can do t...she makes her dreams real. how many of us can do that? then again, maybe most of us do - we just dream poorly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-22840940748440707002013-12-02T00:50:17.306-05:002013-12-02T00:50:17.306-05:00Captivating read. Dark and sad, riding on dark win...Captivating read. Dark and sad, riding on dark wings of history. Yet some awesome dark humor.. Indeed it's hard to wear a hat with an arrow through your headbrudberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12563403553536472377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-39523735717749806492013-12-02T00:24:05.248-05:002013-12-02T00:24:05.248-05:00This is so extraordinarily imaginative, Shay. I do...This is so extraordinarily imaginative, Shay. I don't know why but this section really appeals to me:<br /><br />I have to sleep on my back<br />because of the arrow.<br />I lie down in my yard at night and look at the stars.<br />They turn,<br />and I turn,<br />which makes the arrow turn, too<br /><br />So much seems possible within these lines; I read them as a metaphor for life. I think we collect a lot of arrows in the course of living, some in the head, some in the heart, some in the limbs...Kerry O'Connorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00720862912375945249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-15808354333793590472013-12-01T23:41:28.761-05:002013-12-01T23:41:28.761-05:00OMGosh, Shay... this is fabulous.
"...telling...OMGosh, Shay... this is fabulous.<br />"...telling me I should have ducked..." I love how your mind works.<br />xo jjJoanna Jenkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10836376588710862173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-10535495360942317612013-12-01T23:05:11.876-05:002013-12-01T23:05:11.876-05:00Oh my goodness. When you write, you never run out ...Oh my goodness. When you write, you never run out of words. When I read, there are simply no words good enough.Sherry Blue Skyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10769154286598233146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-11787635552654593262013-12-01T22:15:53.147-05:002013-12-01T22:15:53.147-05:00Such varied voices come from your pen, Shay.Such varied voices come from your pen, Shay.Sioux Roslawskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17924021828536277618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-21873592514747313772013-12-01T21:58:59.242-05:002013-12-01T21:58:59.242-05:00I'd like a ticket to the inside of your mind.....I'd like a ticket to the inside of your mind...<br /><br />So many sections I love but if I had to pick a favorite it would be:<br /><br />"the Indian women tossed me aside like a dandelion flower<br />and I had to walk home."<br /><br />And I love how vivid your fruit section of this poem is...I could nearly see the juice running.<br /><br />Great read, Shay...you're on fire blossom. :)Hannahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10124956200834969600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-69854346089750160672013-12-01T21:58:04.030-05:002013-12-01T21:58:04.030-05:00Your arrow feels like the crutch of time. We all a...Your arrow feels like the crutch of time. We all are indebted to it~<br />Remembering the sweet sections makes me smile~ I think I know Bob n' John ;D (Bob Seger and John Denver)<br />How odd we both did go to the plains?! I love your story like poems-they transcend time! YOU do grow a lovely word garden~ Ellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06070952447277684613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-64269129034468765802013-12-01T21:27:23.735-05:002013-12-01T21:27:23.735-05:00Free? Not you Shay. You are in thrall to words.
A...Free? Not you Shay. You are in thrall to words.<br /><br />ALOHA from Honolulu<br /><a href="http://comfortspiral.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Comfort Spiral</a><br /> =^..^= <br /><br /><br />Cloudiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05853753108637831069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-13902096918780883752013-12-01T21:03:23.743-05:002013-12-01T21:03:23.743-05:00Wow. Shock, humor, epiphanies; this piece had it ...Wow. Shock, humor, epiphanies; this piece had it all. I can picture someone like del Toro turning this into a movie (or at least a short).HermanTurniphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15448138758753193112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-82737852174931989342013-12-01T20:49:59.801-05:002013-12-01T20:49:59.801-05:00you 'see' things (and make us see them, to...you 'see' things (and make us see them, too) like no one i've ever 'met'. :)TexWisGirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13641962051044162710noreply@blogger.com