I agree that it's time to wake up. I like how you used the so-called rhetoric of the apocalypse, the tendency of new communications technology to always evoke a fear that it will result in disaster. And yet, I really do feel, as you express here, that we've reached a level where people's complacency and tacit acceptance of everything that comes to them through a screen makes them truly vulnerable to disastrous thought.
Exactly! It feels good to hear that reflected back by a fellow human being. The tensions of that complication you've hit upon was a real impetus for me feeling like I needed to express something like this.
Truly fantastic. This is one of the most thought-provoking poems I have read in a long time, and you did a great job executing it. I loved your references.
I'm very satisfied to know this landed for you. Sometimes I worry that we've cast away poetry as a general medium for expressing ourselves, as if it could only be the domain of, well it pains me to say it, but stuffy academics. Poetry can be viable for us all, I reckon.
I always learn new words when I read your poems - egregore, ecumene, pleroma - phew! I appreciate your vocabulary, but it does make it harder to get the gist of things. I like the last two stanzas the best, but that’s not to say the rest isn’t good, just harder to grok. :)
As long as you groked it! ;) But I do feel you are right. . . simplicity is better, and I should be able to express as much without leaning on the more arcane of terms. (By the same token, it was in a work of yours I do believe, where I was delighted to learn the word 'unicursal.' I am however, an admitted word-nerd.) In the end though, I will stand by the idea that simplicity is best.
I love this wholeheartedly. You have a very masterful way of weaving thoughts with structure in your poem. It is delightful. I especially liked the line: "The charlatan is in a sense a practitioner / of the black arts."
It's delightful to hear as much! Thank you sincerely. I had been worried about it not connecting, especially those kinds of lines as the one you described. It's like a weight lifting to hear otherwise. Thank you!
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But I do feel you are right. . . simplicity is better, and I should be able to express as much without leaning on the more arcane of terms.
(By the same token, it was in a work of yours I do believe, where I was delighted to learn the word 'unicursal.' I am however, an admitted word-nerd.)
In the end though, I will stand by the idea that simplicity is best.
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I had been worried about it not connecting, especially those kinds of lines as the one you described. It's like a weight lifting to hear otherwise. Thank you!
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