Comments by Amaryllis
- "Oh, there will be a day when another heart will trip over the words in your hands and land in your arms and as proud as I wil be of you, a little jealousy will rise to the top for the luck of that woman's draw. I talk fondly of you and your poetic genius to so many in my life that I'm sure anyone who has ever taken a moment to love words now knows and loves you just as I do. Your confessions are art to be framed in the psyche. What a breath taking offering for some starlight soul to be favoured so strongly in your eye and your pen, I hope she is worthy enough to recognize the steel flow and impeccable tone in this."
Posted by Amaryllis on "Our Maritime Moment" by lupus tenebrae
- "This just brought out a long and heavy sigh, not in sadness, but in release. The first line is immaculate and the rest of the piece just settled softly into a place in my mind's spaces where ghosts come and go so often. There's not been much rooted there before, but this filled some gaps and cracks in the walls. Astounding is your talent, Jared."
Posted by Amaryllis on "You Spoke from Beyond the Crosses" by lupus tenebrae
- "October is my favourite, but they all flow very appropriately for the season and time of year they are representative of. What an undertaking and so well accomplished. You will be my most famous friend one day. Don't forget about me when you blow up!"
Posted by Amaryllis on "2012-2013" by lupus tenebrae
- "The end of summer is our rainy season here and it's so symbolic of washing away the sweat, blood, and tears to carry us into carefree, breezy bayou days and crisp, bonfire nights. This is a metaphorical rain. You're ready to fall."
Posted by Amaryllis on "Screen Door Floodgates" by lupus tenebrae
- "You are such a beautiful soul that even your pain brings a smile to my lips, only for the want to reach out and touch, to feel such presence and poetic suffering. Life is good between the bad, otherwise, you'd never know the difference between the two. "
Posted by Amaryllis on "Don't Leave Just Yet" by lupus tenebrae
- "A slippery chance. You have to dig those claws in sometimes and pull the world to a halt for you. Such a full piece. Imagery. Flow. So masterful."
Posted by Amaryllis on "Poet and Painter" by lupus tenebrae
- "I remember this well, too. Much before did I recognize that you are made of poetry, but during that class you finally began to let the world see. You will be taught to children someday, I am sure of it. Until then, my own already know who you are, I want them to know what words can make of a person and you help me with that in every lesson I give them. I can't name a favourite line or stanza in this piece, it flows and engulfs itself over perfectly."
Posted by Amaryllis on "My Serrated Angel" by lupus tenebrae
- "Cream soda...anytime I see, hear about, or drink cream soda (especially the blue kind), I think of my grandfather. When he was in his final days he wrote a request (he died of lung/esophagus cancer and couldn't speak in the last few weeks he was alive) for blue cream soda and we searched high and low to find it for him. We ended up having to drive all the way to New Orleans (an hour and a half drive) to get it for him as the only brand we could find around here that still made blue cream soda was Big Shot, which is made and sold in New Orleans. I remember watching him drink his first sip and I never saw him smile bigger or more beautifully than that in all his life, except when he would look at my grandmother. This could have come straight from my heart. You have such a talent for capturing emotion at its most raw and pure and placing it upon a page in the most penetrating and indenting way. I need to favourite this, but I don't have room. It will happen, though. "
Posted by Amaryllis on "Postcard from my Dreams" by lupus tenebrae
- "It's so hard for me to try to express what he meant to me because my feelings seem so much more complicated than words, yet so dead. He took a lot of the little life I had left in me with him when he went and I find it hard to appreciate love without him since I loved him so very vibrantly and strong. Yet, the memories and the words and the gestures he left behind to us speak so much better than I do and he is ghosting this piece, Jared. And you know what, an Op-bot ghosting in your words is something that can only improve and empower your already present and ever-mounting talent. I know you made him proud, because you make ME proud and there's no way that he didn't feel the same way about you that I do, if not a million times more for the much better human being that he was."
Posted by Amaryllis on "To Miss a Lummox" by lupus tenebrae
- "This is such a vibrating piece. Like echoes of old moments and ancient carnations of you are all speaking to build to the verses that you write. "
Posted by Amaryllis on "A Poem Whisperer" by lupus tenebrae
- "This is quite endearing and shattering for me as my brother is forever fighting this neverending war for a country that is ungrateful and somewhat condemning. It's refreshing and beautiful to see someone that is appreciative of the sacrifices our soldiers in all phases of service make for us and for their families and theirselves. Thank you for this."
Posted by Amaryllis on "Desert Dawn (patrotism)" by lupus tenebrae
- "Oh, those precious moments when the world is not chaotic, but orchestrating the music that every living cell dances to and peace and purpose kiss your eyelashes and give you temporary sight to see the magnificence of the flow we reside in and so often, blindly, walk against...I have those moments when I lay next to the bayou and listen to her speaking and whispering and singing...those moments carry me through every other disjointed moment between. You have managed to suspend that moment in verse for all to see and experience. Thank you. Thank you so much."
Posted by Amaryllis on "Fallen Angel's Empathy" by lupus tenebrae
- "I'll keep the sappy out of this comment, I think I went there enough on your note, but, I am so deeply honoured and as I said...I love you, too, my friend. :)"
Posted by Amaryllis on "Summer Tableau" by lupus tenebrae
