tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153022829143323463.post5903230972849068103..comments2024-03-27T15:28:05.946+00:00Comments on A Writer's Life: The Tuesday Poem: Horse TradingKathleen Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07645566938871914385noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153022829143323463.post-44989414609359943012010-06-11T11:01:47.657+01:002010-06-11T11:01:47.657+01:00Thanks for your comments, Mary and S.L. The poem ...Thanks for your comments, Mary and S.L. The poem is still a work-in-progress, but I hope to have it finished one of these days! All feedback is welcome.Kathleen Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07645566938871914385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153022829143323463.post-39543548735974436082010-06-09T04:37:06.984+01:002010-06-09T04:37:06.984+01:00I like the segue from the present to the mythology...I like the segue from the present to the mythology/ancestors/shaman part, then back to the present with that picture-perfect scene in the first half of the last stanza. I like it more that you ended the poem with sounds (can be real, can be illusory -- therein lies, sort of, my affinity for the aural in poetry). Cheers.S.L. Corsuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10299376651709536034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153022829143323463.post-60201134063488547472010-06-08T01:03:42.072+01:002010-06-08T01:03:42.072+01:00Welcome to Tuesday Poem Kathleen. A marvellous sen...Welcome to Tuesday Poem Kathleen. A marvellous sense of history and myth in this poem and of the sheer physicality of HORSES - all that lovely language 'jouncing' 'feathered shins' 'hock deep in foaming water'. Lovely.Mary McCallumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07482261103185786111noreply@blogger.com