wow...*speechless* the abstractness of this poem just makes me heart it. beautiful work and great imagery!

WOWZERS! I was saying this under my breath but when i got to the end, it flowed together so well, i wanted to shout it! SO AWESOME!! *bows before the awesomeness*

...WOAH.

This is most definetly one of my favorites. I love the dark tone of this and also how the poem itself isn't really dark at all...or..um. Does that make sense? ARGH. I tried... um. Anyway... I like the part about the gems especially the line "Their worth is that they are free".

There are a million other things I'd like to say, but alas, I have to get off the computer. This IS one of my favorites though and I actually have no c.c. I can give you, so ROCK ON!

Or...something. WOOT.

This was a little more understandable than normal, Arch. ^^ I like it, but it's not one of my faves... I can't quite pinpoint why, either.

I know I've been MIA for a little while now - work and acute bronchitis are my only excuses. I'll try to get my chap for Two Lanes to you soon, k?

Emily is one of my favorites too; my favorite poem by her has to be "Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me", those two lines in itself are ingenious, absolutely beautiful and infinitely sad at the same time.

I can see why this poem (I assume it is this one) might have taken a lot out of you. I will have to come back and read it at another time because it is too much for me to digest; I'm tired as well, though for other reasons. There are so many aspects of this poem I really enjoyed; I sense this dreamy quality surrounding death and life. I like the momentum, it builds up then slowly ebbs away and builds up again (maybe that is because of the way I read it). And I love the last stanza and am glad you didn't insert a word at the end or in those parentheses because maybe it's up to the individual reader to decide what it is or there simply isn't a word to describe what should go there. I will have to read this again.

And I just want to say thanks for remaining such a faithful reader. It really means a lot.