Comments by Carmina Gitana

"YEEEHAWW, you still write. And you're still stupendous at it. Every time I do my semi-annual login to DP, I hope and hope to see something from you and it's amazing when I do :) This is so beautiful. Your language has become even more stripped-down and evocative than before, I think. The repetitiveness of the last stanza feels like a heartbeat. I've just re-read it like 5 times and I have no plans to stop anytime soon. "
Posted by Carmina Gitana on "You are Still Here" by Stranger

"This is so beautiful, a modern myth full of the most divine images. It felt like watching a weather map that had been enchanted by faeries. . . yes, faeries who had been listening to a lot of Tom Waits. Wonderful piece!"
Posted by Carmina Gitana on "When She Reads His Literary Tone, She Gains Stars in Her Eyes." by soul_versing

"Thank you for still posting once in a while. That third stanza is one of the most perfectly stripped-down poetic truths I've read in a very long time. It's like one of Rodin's hand sculptures, real as flesh but bite-sharp to the touch. Wonderful."
Posted by Carmina Gitana on "Real and Unreal" by Stranger

"I came by your page on the off chance you'd been back here in the years since I last visited . . . this was like finding the last piece of chocolate at the bottom of the basket. This was deliciously vicious. Love, love. It's like, I knew all these words before, but when you use them, you paint them into life. "
Posted by Carmina Gitana on "Burn" by purr_verse

"You have the rare gift of being able to write poetry. There is no line here that I feel the need to quote. I just find, when I read your works, I fall into them. I can't tell why, but reading your poems just hits the right note every freaking time. Predictably fantastic. This happens with precious few poets I've read. You are marvelous, truly. I look forward to your next work, whenever it might appear. "
Posted by Carmina Gitana on "the distance between the two" by past tense

"So goddamn many writes about writing, and so goddamn few are as good as this one. Frantic, frustrating, strangely sensual. The muse is a wicked mistress."
Posted by Carmina Gitana on "8.42" by past tense

"Reading this felt like sitting alone in your favorite bar after closing time, and hearing the perfect song coming on . . . loved the first stanza, and the repetition of it. A beautiful diagram of the thinking man's addiction. "
Posted by Carmina Gitana on "tearing down the destructionist" by past tense

"You write like every word has a damn good reason to be there. I love it."
Posted by Carmina Gitana on "50%" by past tense

"This is . . . phenomenal. I really don't want to quote lines or critique it intelligently. It's just really, really fucking good, and I am simply glad to have found your work here."
Posted by Carmina Gitana on "casting wishes on molten stars [never did us any good]" by past tense

"You know they got one hell of a band . . . and this is a hell of a poem :) Love the line about "gods shit out broken dreams" - crude, but perfect here. "
Posted by Carmina Gitana on "Midnight's End" by Sean Mc Shane

"Ahhhh, lovely . . . I just adore seeing a non-dysfunctional love poem :) "
Posted by Carmina Gitana on "Outlaw" by DarkDruidess

"You got a fast car, I want a ticket to anywhere . . . :) Very cool ride, got me thinking of a modern-day kind of Bonnie and Clyde, crazed and speeding into hyperreal oblivion to the soundtrack of an electric guitar confessing its darkest sins. Nice :) Some of my favorite inspirations come from music."
Posted by Carmina Gitana on "Me, Hendrix, Gloria and You" by Sean Mc Shane

"Very cool perspective . . . the last two lines are perfect. It's a good poem overall, but those last two lines belong on bumper stickers and T-shirts."
Posted by Carmina Gitana on "Not Equal to the Task" by daiglepoems

"I have to say, I really, REALLY enjoyed this . . . even though the title made Duran Duran play in my head for a second :) All kidding aside, great, great piece of erotic writing, and I appreciate the restraint when it it comes to "naughty" words - makes it so much more subtle and pervasive."
Posted by Carmina Gitana on "Fucking on Film" by Six-Out

". . . maybe I am not supposed to say this, but I've never understood why people like this particular piece so much. But thank you for this, and your other kind comments :)"
Posted by Carmina Gitana on "Cigarette" by Carmina Gitana

"This actually moved me . . . in the region where I'm supposed to have a heart. Beautiful poem. Beautiful sentiment. Its subject is, indeed, a lucky woman."
Posted by Carmina Gitana on "not "beautiful"" by FadedBlues

"Paid in full, I'd say. You have a delightful way of exploring archetypes . . ."
Posted by Carmina Gitana on "Queen of Goodbye" by FadedBlues

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