tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post5708234472639283746..comments2024-03-18T23:15:50.606-04:00Comments on Shay's Word Garden (Poetry & Such Like): HarlowFireblossomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-53369652442982370132015-05-12T13:09:12.765-04:002015-05-12T13:09:12.765-04:00Oh, THIS:
"My brother told me I fell out of ...Oh, THIS: <br />"My brother told me I fell out of a cereal box" ;) <br /><br />Yes.<br /><br />Frightening piece, though, especially when steeped in its historic reality. De Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04798544585779003567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-63280138309105267552015-05-12T10:40:04.355-04:002015-05-12T10:40:04.355-04:00Wow! Powerful. I love the last line...the reminder...Wow! Powerful. I love the last line...the reminder that no matter what abuses we suffer in life, there are some things that no one can touch, that no one can take from us....those things that we can always hold dear and keep sacred and safe within ourselves.C.C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16393100446679896378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-43579356955037014722015-05-12T00:22:53.237-04:002015-05-12T00:22:53.237-04:00I think we are all someone's science project. ...I think we are all someone's science project. It depends on the size of the needle they prod us with whether or not pain scars our memory. " My brother told me I fell out of a cereal box, with Harry Harlow's research notes printed on the back." Love that line.Susie Clevengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09239990133754328967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-50435460077501619192015-05-11T11:28:35.130-04:002015-05-11T11:28:35.130-04:00Great poem, but I disagree that Harry Harlow's...Great poem, but I disagree that Harry Harlow's work proved what every imbecile knows: I was raised / socialized as a man, and I did not know "Pick me up, I'm a mess" instinctively, and yes, I was an imbecile. <br /><br />Harlow's work, however cruel it appears, helped to usher in a more compassionate, more humane school of child-rearing when it proved definitively the essential role that love and contact play in human development.<br /><br />Superb poem, as always, Love MoskBuddah Moskowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839068145732552328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-38197223095974622932015-05-11T10:10:28.164-04:002015-05-11T10:10:28.164-04:00This is incomparably phenomenal.
"he probabl...This is incomparably phenomenal.<br /><br />"he probably Titanic-ed his pecker on the iceberg"<br /><br />"Facts are sketchy and suspect when you're the youngest by nine years,<br />but the obvious<br />is the obvious<br />even to a monkey."<br /><br />Oh, forget it. It's the whole thing. Every word-picture is perfect and untoppably inventive. This is painful to read, which I suppose is what sends it to the top of my favorites list.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-85617384147812764442015-05-11T07:04:31.969-04:002015-05-11T07:04:31.969-04:00This is wonderful work, Shay--I won't write he...This is wonderful work, Shay--I won't write here of my own mother, who actually is pretty great, but I can understand this emphasis on the furniture-the linoleum and the gravy boats--which was very moving and resonant, the putting in the sack to protect the furniture--easier than coating it with plastic, I guess--all the images are so strong--I especially like the tree growing around the obstacle--we have some beautiful ones upstate--one from a recent flood--with a plastic bathroom fixture--but an old one grown through a cart wheel--anyway, this is me rambling--very poignant poem. k. Outlawyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15698845661756444061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-57570648231860876372015-05-11T02:19:10.919-04:002015-05-11T02:19:10.919-04:00Wow, this is the most incredibly powerful stuff! N...Wow, this is the most incredibly powerful stuff! Now I want to do very nasty things to Horrible Harry Harlow. But you have already skewered him.Rosemary Nissen-Wadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05913841031559499568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-4991138891215851862015-05-11T00:51:12.982-04:002015-05-11T00:51:12.982-04:00chilling. the darkest side of science ~chilling. the darkest side of science ~grapelinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14929030339206629628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-85309899118912095332015-05-10T16:35:52.725-04:002015-05-10T16:35:52.725-04:00A strange and terrifying story, yikes ~
Thanks ...A strange and terrifying story, yikes ~ <br /><br />Thanks for participating and wishing you happy week ~Gracehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02213172239590722747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-42880183887699207612015-05-10T15:34:28.682-04:002015-05-10T15:34:28.682-04:00Intriguing.
I couldn't resist. But, this mak...Intriguing.<br /><br />I couldn't resist. But, this makes me think of a book I read recently, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. It's about a very dysfunctional fmaily and chimp experiments.Other Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09189646933597252108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-30280972381250569992015-05-10T15:30:47.270-04:002015-05-10T15:30:47.270-04:00This is a strange and wild poem. I love the items...This is a strange and wild poem. I love the items that you chose as being "eternal". Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-57769671971570453752015-05-10T14:58:59.350-04:002015-05-10T14:58:59.350-04:00What they did.. that we already know.. I guess tha...What they did.. that we already know.. I guess that Harry never really liked his mother.. brudberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12563403553536472377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-7505241264972577562015-05-10T14:39:03.283-04:002015-05-10T14:39:03.283-04:00What Hedge says, strength, not a hint of a whine....What Hedge says, strength, not a hint of a whine........oy, for a woman who protected the furniture instead of the children. OMG. Sherry Blue Skyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10769154286598233146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-59032143966907460932015-05-10T14:02:04.826-04:002015-05-10T14:02:04.826-04:00This is fucking terrifying, if I may be blunt.This is fucking terrifying, if I may be blunt.Maude Lynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03669688074743095866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-41079525924434543032015-05-10T13:39:06.495-04:002015-05-10T13:39:06.495-04:00Ok that was strange, interesting, and couldn't...Ok that was strange, interesting, and couldn't stop reading it. Good work :-)<br />ZQZQhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08521836993023109556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-16355986599122521612015-05-10T13:01:36.381-04:002015-05-10T13:01:36.381-04:00Loved this poem.. :D
Specially the lines:
She kne...Loved this poem.. :D<br />Specially the lines:<br /><br />She knew what was truly valuable--<br />chairs,<br />linoleum floors,<br />gravy boats.<br /><br />Wishing you happy mother's day :)<br />xoxoSanaa Rizvihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06681404650477409830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-49572460978660472782015-05-10T12:43:37.724-04:002015-05-10T12:43:37.724-04:00Girl, I don't care what they say, you and your...Girl, I don't care what they say, you and your monkeys can dance like Fred and Ginger(LOVE his spats) This has some mighty hardcore overload in a lot of lines, it slashes and burns and cries, but never whimpers--the image that stays in my mind is not the crazy monkeys, but the tree that grew around the obstacle. And like they say, it don;t mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.hedgewitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13090696134322515899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-26054169243453750292015-05-10T12:39:43.736-04:002015-05-10T12:39:43.736-04:00"She knew what was truly valuable--
chairs,
l..."She knew what was truly valuable--<br />chairs,<br />linoleum floors,<br />gravy boats.<br />These are the eternal things, or should be."<br />See, I like that celebration of the mundane; like inside a beloved coffee shop (Danny's!).<br /><br /><br />"Pulse of percussion" [to that demonic song you shared?] = beatings.....<br /><br />We each are experimental beasts to those we never asked to be subject to....<br /><br /><br />Happy Mother's Day! [a perfect post for our past; Moms Day ALWAYS challenging.....] Thanks, my fellow survivor<br /><br /><br /><br />( '><br />/))<br />//""<br /><br />ALOHA from Honolulu, <br /><a href="http://comfortspiral.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">ComfortSpiral</a><br /> =^..^=<br /><br /><br /><br />Cloudiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05853753108637831069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-8196877327183255412015-05-10T12:13:31.065-04:002015-05-10T12:13:31.065-04:00Upon second read, Benny Goodman cut a rug while I ...Upon second read, Benny Goodman cut a rug while I savored your linoleum floors, chairs &gravy boats. Very messed up maternal deprivation, but for God sake, the crumbs here were fit for a king. Keep singing:)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com