The Night Garden
Cactus lilies rise from a stone urn with thorns leaning like hair pins along their necks and the moon, a lyre’s frame lacking strings, a lament. I wonder if mine would suffice, tendons of memory...
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Powerful writing."..stemmed in fragranceso beautifully toxicit clingsand never relents."Obsession? (I mean the emotion not the perfume)ely
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Wendy,I always know I'm in for a treat whenyou post a new poem and yet, I'm alwaysknocked over by the strength and graceof your pen. "a lyre's frame lacking strings,a lament" my words aren't...
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This is so beautiful and poignant Wendy. We see this figure, not able to sleep, taking a walk in the garden and thinking about past events in her life.
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Wendy. I believe I could go to any art gallery in the world, look at a blank canvas, and with your words in my mind, see the picture you paint as clearly as if I could see the artist's brushstrokes. A...
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Wendy, I see to be noticing the appearance of more . . . Wendy poems (by which I mean, poems from you, not it that Browningesque dramatic narrative mode). As a die-hard, egocentric, lyric poet whose...
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Hi ElyThank you so much for taking time to read my work! I really appreciate it. As to the "long sigh/stemmed in a fragrance/...." that is figurative. Sor of like the garden's exhalation of perfumed...
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This ache called night which draws from sleep a listless shadow Love it although those Cactus lilies make me feel uneasy!
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Definitely my kind of night Wendy, I often wander my local riverside walk at dusk, the sights and sounds there can be delicious wrapped in dark silk...Keith.
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Wendy,The night is an almost lethal stimulant...the deprivation of sleephas enchanted the author, and readers find themselves in anunexpected feast of images where beauty and lamentationhold hands,...
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Hi Rich I am glad you enjoyed this poem and am very grateful for you wonderful and perceptive view of "The Night Garden". You are so right in saying --- "The night is an almost lethal stimulant...the...
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