Poem Tag

[Poemsapennyeach]

Excellent. Succinct...and excellent.

[ufo8mykat]

Great imagery and delivery. It's nice and open-ended, like such a character as the title suggests.

[dashpoet]

Lovely, succinct; strong choice of poem.. and I loved your video too

[tinySpectacle]

@dashpoet Too kind, Dash. I'm no artists like you, but sometimes I get a bug in me to do it anyway.

[dashpoet]

@tinySpectacle ... such artistry in your poetry can only mean one thing to me..

[Rutle]

Love the images, great poem.

[VisionGhostPoet]

There's something very sweetly sentimental in that. Concise and enjoyable!

[nordicsky]

I liked the poem but it was the drawings that remain in my minds eye, the wolf looks more apologetic than fearsome. Are snow shoes the subject, or can Lina write on anything?

[tinySpectacle]

@nordicsky Thanks. I believe the objective of the tag is just to read a poem that isn't yours. So she doesn't have to stick with snowshoes, but I would be impressed if she did. :o)

[SomebodyIusedtoknow]

lovely ♥

[tinySpectacle]

@SomebodyIusedtoknow Thanks so much. I'm a big fan of your vids.

[SomebodyIusedtoknow]

@tinySpectacle the feelings are mutual. for certain. you are very talented! xo

[PoetLina]

How lovely to hear your voice, "talk to water".

Now you've put me in the s*** and I swear I've never owned a pair of s*** shoes.

Love ya really :-)

[tinySpectacle]

@PoetLina Surely you jest. I know you have a pair of sh*t shoes; I wore them when I was at your house. You will have to try harder than that.

Now, get to work. :o)

Lo

[QualiaSoup]

Beautiful, Lo, and wonderful artwork. I wasn't saddened by your having to take down those videos only because your extraordinary words were gone. It's your delivery that made the poems shine even brighter, and that still shines here with Ron Koertge's poem. ;^>

[tinySpectacle]

@QualiaSoup Thanks for saying that. I just watched your new video yesterday. That kind of clear, sophisticated articulation is so impressive: you must have a very disciplined mind. In juxtaposition, right before I saw your video, a student had come to complain about how hard the reading assignment was and she screwed up her face and got this kind of distant look like she would rather be eating cheesecake and said, "Thinking is hard."

[TheraminTrees]

I knew it would be a good one! Love that end line — and the two different senses that came through it: 1) that as a child school seemed to stretch on forever with no end — really captures that child-like sense of being engulfed — and 2) that the desks changing from school desks to work desks, and evoking this perpetual grind, serving some other interest than your own. Beautiful imagery too — love the words in the rain! Now back to my desk .... ;8)

[tinySpectacle]

@TheraminTrees I liked that about it too. Thanks so much for the comment! :o)

[DavidRandallCurtis]

Jeepers that was good! And it is about time somebody got PoetLina off her bum! :p

[tinySpectacle]

@DavidRandallCurtis Thanks for using an exclamatory word from before I was born. It reminds me how much younger and hipper I am than you. :P

[DavidRandallCurtis]

@tinySpectacle Okay. Okay. I'll admit you ARE younger than me. But just by 2 or 3 decades! :p But if you were hipper you'd repost all those cool videos you took down and record that new one that you are being a total BRAT about!

So there! :P

[liketelevisionsnow]

@tinySpectacle beebop david....reebop!

[notinmyname2050]

oh my...i'm in doodly form, YAY!!!!

Love your choice, I kind of get worried sometimes that i may be tempted to "normalise" my child as she grows up for the sake of an easier ride. But now, I might just go out and buy some snow shoes....no...flippers...no wait...i already have my gorilla feet slippers woot!

[tinySpectacle]

@notinmyname2050

HOW DARE YOU, SIR--calling my beautiful rendition of your face a "doodly!" (But, seriously, I'm glad you have red hair or it would be hard to tell it was you.)

I like that line, "the desks we will occupy for the rest of our lives." Like life is a slow discovery of our prisons. I guess the trick is to do great things within those limitations, and maybe even because of them. Thanks for thinking of me for the tag.

Lo