The thing I love about good poetry is that you can see the authors experince in the verse. While still feeling your own. For one I resonated with the verse where you spoke about sleeping with the words at the edges of your mind. As well with the feeling of the writting carrying into how you see day to day life. All around the poem is nice! It was a joy to read
Whoa. This is something ELSE! Been taking in your vids -- all wonderful by the way -- but this is the first time I've opened one of your substack posts and read something you wrote. I reread it many times. feel deeply humbled and inspired. Thank-you.
I don't get modern English poetry at all. Edgar Allan Poe has both rhyme and meter; modern English poetry has neither. Watching YouTube readings is a joke—the readers pretentiously start singing whatever words are in front of them, pretending that's what makes it poetry. WTF?
I grew up in Russia reading Pushkin, Nekrasov, and Lermontov. Even Gorky's poetry is good without rhyme because it relies on meter.
Some searching tells me this modern English "poetry" is called Free Verse. It pointed me to Blank Verse instead, used by classic masters like John Milton. That's not bad. It has meter, at least.
“At night I slept with words I had written
on the edges of my mind and they bled
into my dreams, made them strange and
beautiful and unbearably unfamiliar.”
I feel this. I’ve been writing lately and some of my stories are finding their way into my dreams and vice versa.
It feels a bit cosmic when dreams and stories mingle, like the story was meant to be written.
Oh this is very good. Requires a few more readings.
Thank you!
The thing I love about good poetry is that you can see the authors experince in the verse. While still feeling your own. For one I resonated with the verse where you spoke about sleeping with the words at the edges of your mind. As well with the feeling of the writting carrying into how you see day to day life. All around the poem is nice! It was a joy to read
Thank you!
Wow! Thank you, Hilary.
Whoa. This is something ELSE! Been taking in your vids -- all wonderful by the way -- but this is the first time I've opened one of your substack posts and read something you wrote. I reread it many times. feel deeply humbled and inspired. Thank-you.
Nice
I don't get modern English poetry at all. Edgar Allan Poe has both rhyme and meter; modern English poetry has neither. Watching YouTube readings is a joke—the readers pretentiously start singing whatever words are in front of them, pretending that's what makes it poetry. WTF?
I grew up in Russia reading Pushkin, Nekrasov, and Lermontov. Even Gorky's poetry is good without rhyme because it relies on meter.
Some searching tells me this modern English "poetry" is called Free Verse. It pointed me to Blank Verse instead, used by classic masters like John Milton. That's not bad. It has meter, at least.
The poem reminds me of letters from Ablelard to Helios.
H.L.- are you religious?