Comments by cadymae
- "Thank you for your kind comment. I have others you can see if you click on my name up there under the headline. I love your profile pic. That's striking!"
Posted by cadymae on "Tagore is right, still." by cadymae
- "Wittgenstein!?!? Qapla Dybbuk! My school days studying philosophy under the oak trees on Wellesley's campus came back full force as I read that. I'll go find my old textbooks and study up. I need to revisit him with my adult mind anyway... Dunno if dybbukim do shalom on shabbatim but if so... I wish you peace."
Posted by cadymae on "Tagore is right, still." by cadymae
- "I've been thinking about this comment all morning long and finally decided that all of my poems are based on my reactions to outside events, be they words I read or hear or events I watch happening. I might have some original conclusions about things but I certainly do not think I have a lock on all ways of seeing. Since I was going to use his name in my poem, and I didn't think his name would be too familiar to many US readers, I thought I'd include the quote I was agreeing with, to give my readers and my poem some bearings."
Posted by cadymae on "Tagore is right, still." by cadymae
- "Mite not be anything sweet inside that one. Just a picture of an old spent lady committing suicide by pills to complement my piece on an old spent man killing himself with a gun. "Nothing to see here. Move along... " Even a sad life deserves a witness at its end."
Posted by cadymae on "Unrepentant but defeated" by cadymae
- "I liked your ramblings. I've been staring at the screen wondering why I'm doing that 3 lines then 1 then 3 again thing. Every now and again the words or message seems to want that shape. but I don't think about that when I write. I just write. I think all the rest of the time. :)"
Posted by cadymae on "Grammar Lesson #1" by cadymae
- "tnx lady! the rest was written around that specific line. sometimes they land in my head fully-formed. "
Posted by cadymae on "Grammar Lesson #1" by cadymae
- ">and you go to see... and to leave unseen
nah. I don't go. It was a mental snapshot I was trying to capture after listening to the song Wharf Rat while pondering why a dumb-ass girlfriend of mine keeps going back to a man the treats her like crap."
Posted by cadymae on "Wharfside bar light" by cadymae
- "...from the perspective of the people among the humans... those who walk upright. leading with their minds. instead of scuttling, led by their appetites."
Posted by cadymae on "The Pretty Time" by cadymae
- ""the tragedy of an attentive mind." I once asked an ex-DEA agent why he gets high now. He replied: "I woke up." Waking up is hard to do.... (N that sounds like the beginning of a poem there... :)"
Posted by cadymae on "Listening to dust fall" by cadymae
- ""what will be even as we must let it become what was. " We,too, become what was. I think it is helpful to let that thought inform my days. Balancing on the cusp of non-being with your eyes open allows you to look at life more sweetly. "
Posted by cadymae on "Nothingness, Something, Nothingness" by cadymae
- "There might be something there after your body dies, but since your wetware, that that is your brain, which holds all your memories and your personality will be rotting in the grave, you won't be aware of what's there. Similar to the way there is a nothingness for a dementia patient when they see what used to be their beloved child."
Posted by cadymae on "Nothingness, Something, Nothingness" by cadymae
- "ya to yer "maybe" regrets are slippery things. and what we base our judgements on as we decide *what* to regret is slippery as well. "
Posted by cadymae on "Yet I'll still regret" by cadymae
- "you're right. the last line misses. I'm still chewing on it. Was playing with the "e" and s" of gladness and sadnesses. The idea and cadence and the "yets/regrets" are all there though. I'll come back to it. tnx fer reading."
Posted by cadymae on "Yet I'll still regret" by cadymae
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