Comments by Railway_Butterfly
- "Do you know, I kind of abandoned all my notions about leaving any kind of successfully profound comment on any of the works in this place a long time ago. I'm simply no good at it. But sometimes it seems such a shame to walk away from something and to leave absolutely no acknowledgement of the effect that it's had... perhaps that's why there have never been any 'like' buttons here, and why favourites are limited; we're supposed to be writers and I guess that encourages us all to say something of consideration and worth when we do... but then that's probably another reason I'm no longer here. I suck at expressing myself concisely. These days I need the length of a novel to render a journey or idea that some can do in a poem... as you have done here, in so many ways.
I realise I've said a load of stuff here without really saying anything, and sort of made it all about me... I don't know how to not make it about me, really. You didn't write this with any intention or understanding of me personally, as a reader... and yet you've struck this big, thick chord in my heart. I don't know anything about where this piece has come from, nor could I deign to. I don't know anything about you. All I have the scope to do is comment on what it all means to me, for my own reasons... I read this a few nights ago when I was drunk. Then again a few nights later, when I was drunk again, and again tonight when I'm... sort of recovering from a few solid months of drunkeness. What can I say, other than that you've reeled me in? I loved this, not just because it resonated with where I find myself these days, but because I feel it so deeply, that I can only imagine (Or romanticise - if I'm choosing to be cynical, which I generally don't...) everything that precedes the creation of this piece. I can't help but fall in love with that.
It's odd actually that I don't recall receiving an email from the site notifying me of a new post from one of my favourites, for years now... perhaps none of them are posting anymore. Perhaps it's some other sort of fluke that I can draw some neat, self-serving conclusion of.
For all the nothing I've said here, I can be clear on the fact that I'm really pleased to see you posting again. To know that you're still writing. It's... exciting. Encouraging. And ultimately just bloody lovely. In all of these years, almost nothing has transcended one stage of my life into the next, and so... finding a weight and meaning here again in the form of another's writing is just so... unexpected, and yet, so ultimately wonderful.
I feel like I should end that with a 'thank you' but it sounds kind of wanky. I trust that my underlying thanks will emerge somehow, beneath the ramble."
Posted by Railway_Butterfly on "lovesick" by Jonas
- "I've found myself rifling through DP a bit more again, recently.. and I naughtily borrowed the company iPad at work today on my break, thinking that it'd been so long since i'd visited to yours. I fell head first into this and found it tinted the rest of my day with it's images.. you know i've always been a big fan of the gritty city-esque backdrops that often accompany your work, but I loved reading this.. it was quite refreshing and actually really relevant to me now, in a way that I doubt I could articulate into this little box. Actually I felt like I really noticed how long it's been since I first found your work, reading this. Perhaps it's my imagination but I felt like I could see a real mind-shift and maybe that's where i'm drawing the relevance from.."
Posted by Railway_Butterfly on "Until Those Last Lost Beach Sequences" by jonLyndon
- "ah, this is excellent.. read like a dream, I could feel the bitter curve of my lips deepening with every line. You may not understand why people like this so much, but I feel that I do.. it's just so relatable. How many of us have been there, having this conversation and feel that angry burn on our fingers ? There was a line in this.. 'my hands moves then..' and I thought, I *hoped* for a second, that it was moving to punch him in the face. Perhaps this piece did that enough without you needing to.. "
Posted by Railway_Butterfly on "Cigarette" by Carmina Gitana
- "'m.o.m.e.nt.s before her hands relieve me of my spine.' i've read a few of your works now, all this evening.. and i rarely read much outside my already years-old fave list these days.. you're truly astounding. so very pleased I was pointed your way. will read more. don't bank on me having much more to say of any insight, i'm afraid i've always sucked at commenting. but you are definitely astounding. mmmm. lovely."
Posted by Railway_Butterfly on "deus [ex] machina" by past tense
- "I keep re-reading it to try and mention bits that I really loved, but again - I begin, and it slips through my hands like a wish fish.. it's undeniably beautiful, anyway. And there are plenty more reasons for me enjoying this, that I don't think i'm really equipped to articulate. I hope it doesn't sound wanky, but 'thanks for sharing' anyway. I very much enjoyed the half hour it took for me to read, contemplate and comment on this.
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Posted by Railway_Butterfly on "Pearl projector eyes" by King_Crazy_Dave
- "I feel like every word connected to and complimented every other one so perfectly.. but the way you often structure and punctuate your pieces always leaves me in two minds. With this, I feel like it becomes this tumbling wave of words and images that kind of overrun eachother as I read them, because they all fit together so well.. but then it's all over so quickly and I feel like I don't quite know what i've read.. so I go back, read it again, the same thing happens.. it's quite surreal, kind of frustrating because I want to grasp hold of it, but in a sense it's so clever simply because I can't.. the harder you try to grab for it, the more it slips and the more you just want to be able to seize it.. on the other hand, as a writer I get how restrictive punctuation can feel when you're trying to create something, so I can reason with myself as to where you might be coming from. Though, thinking that really makes me want to hear you read it aloud."
Posted by Railway_Butterfly on "Pearl projector eyes" by King_Crazy_Dave
- "I do relate to this, very much. As, again.. I imagine that many of us can. I once heard somebody say that a parent doesn't deal with the loss of their child, they simply learn to continue living with their grief.. i'd never heard any pain described in this way before, always hearing the age old sentiment that it all gets easier with time. I found the idea of the former more of a comfort because it allowed me to accept that maybe this pain won't ever go away, instead of waiting for the magical day when I wake up and it's all gone away. When you realise and accept that it could always be a part of you it becomes a thousand times lighter to carry. I hope this makes sense and sounds hopeful, as it's meant to.. "
Posted by Railway_Butterfly on "on time and mothers and lies" by Rachel
- "Rachel I love this. My instant thought actually went to the 7/7 terrorist attacks on the London underground of about 6 years ago, for some reason.. you've written this in such a way that it's relateable for so many of us I think.. really, I got something from reading this. And it's important, which I envy. I don't seem to be able to write about important things. well done :)"
Posted by Railway_Butterfly on "Ambient noise in Joplin, the new normal." by Rachel
- "I like this a lot.. but i'm also a big sucker for it too. I'm certainly not naieve but perhaps blindly optimistic that there can be some truth in it all.."
Posted by Railway_Butterfly on "Cinema Chivalry" by elisa
- "i must have read this many more times than i'd realised.. it's certainly been a while, but as i was reading this again it literally felt so familiar i could've sworn i'd written it myself if i didn't know better. i hope you realise how beautiful this piece is, i can honestly say i will never forget it."
Posted by Railway_Butterfly on "no.wings" by slow.burn.star
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