Comments by All Members
- "beauty is skin deep and your words cut right to the marrow...you make me crave this role.well done ;)"
Posted by Unknown on "Perfect Slave" by Stranger
- ""Is This What You Wanted" was one of my favorite songs. I lost the CD years ago. Thank you for reminding me of it. "
Posted by Stranger on "This is Longing" by Stranger
- "Came back to this for some reason. (I like to re-read your stuff.) It just totally reminded me of Cohen's "Is This What You Wanted." You ever hear that one? It's pretty amazing. "
Posted by Carmina Gitana on "This is Longing" by Stranger
- "Did you by any chance see/read The Watchmen recently? This reminds me very much of a scene/character from it. (Won't spoil it for you if you haven't seen/read it; if you have, you'll know what I mean.) Love the imagery, in any case. And "plotting an overthrow of destiny" - something about that line really appeals to me. It's the mix of the heroic and the desperate, I think. But then, I suppose they always mix together, one way or another. "
Posted by Carmina Gitana on "Through the Singularity" by Stranger
- "This is beautiful and terrifying, and more terrifying for its beauty. Brings to mind Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, but far darker and richer. Agree with Aurora_Light about the quietLOUDquiet of that stanza, it works very well. I've re-read this a number of times and am not done yet. This is very powerful. You navigate the darkness like few others can. "
Posted by Carmina Gitana on "Table for Two, Dinner for One" by Stranger
- "The idea of supernova eyes really instills the sense of terror. The unimaginable fear is made more real for me with this metaphor. And the piece as a whole, well, it speaks volumes to my inner most revenge seeking animal. I want to dine at this restaurant, sounds right up my alley"
Posted by wilted on "Table for Two, Dinner for One" by Stranger
- "a marshal and captain of words your horde laying siege to my mind as i try to interpret all the possible lines of attack that an army so arrayed could be capable of and i am set firmly on my back foot as it becomes more and more clear with each and every word that walls long in the building will fall (i will use the fallen stones to make new paths to understanding) we parley in the courtyard of yesterday with a fountain flowing spilling its water on thirsty ground, after long deliberation it seems that though hostilities will end there can be no more than the shakiest illusion of peace."
Posted by Jonas on "I Told Me So" by Stranger
- "Every time I see your name pop up here, I get such a frisson of delight and anticipation and you never disappoint. This is a strong, bold poem, richly flavoured with the near-tangible images that are your specialty. The fourth stanza is especially memorable. As for the content, I think most of us could say something similar, but only you can say it like THAT. "
Posted by Carmina Gitana on "I Told Me So" by Stranger
- "could not agree more. These lines are quite unique and stunningly real. It really expresses the fragile aspect."
Posted by Leith Plunkett on "Mea Culpa " by Stranger
- "/that a hammer can love a pane of glass/ only once/ .. that line really got me. well written piece."
Posted by Unknown on "Mea Culpa " by Stranger
- "Aren't they all like this. Here one day than gone the next and here we are left to love them, miss them, and perhaps hate them for it...Excellent piece."
Posted by Narcissa on "Contract with a Muse" by Stranger
- "Dark my friend, and so much like you. "A hunger, that so very like death, will last forever" just wow, it's so true that when you long for a love that hungry doesn't fade, just as death can never be reversed. well writen *bows*"
Posted by Aurora_Light on "Contract with a Muse" by Stranger
- "Tense, brittle, delicately and precariously balanced. Beautiful, as always. Heavy as a paperweight in my hand. The middle stanza almost brought me to tears by the second time I read it. Don't you know Muses are just the misplaced shadows of exhausted Poets?"
Posted by Carmina Gitana on "Contract with a Muse" by Stranger
- "I looked for one line that stood out to me the most, but to come away with only one favorite line would be like dismembering a child and leaving with only a portion of a masterpiece. You cannot take one line from this piece and see this work of art as a whole. It is all wonderful and you...You are amazing with the talent that you express with..."
Posted by Lavenia on "Contract with a Muse" by Stranger
- "a sense of life slipping away as it will naturally tend to do with we little human animals always grabbing at it and insisting we are not a part of it. loneliness is that we are not the mattress. which was the dream? hi!, by the way. good to hear from you!"
Posted by Jonas on "The Woman Who Wasn’t There" by Stranger
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