And Should You Come and Find me Gone

Stunning...


"and palely loiter, loned as night?" - could any better words have been spoken ??

Hey, Gautam,
Thank you, my friend. It's always rewarding to receive praise from you. :wink:

Letty I treasure your word's you have such a gift and we are lucky to have you share it with us.

Joanne, I do appreciate your support, and hope that I can continue to be inspired. Poetry gives me an outlet as well as a purging, and this forum provides both. Thank you.

This is one your best efforts, of the ones I have seen. I like it very much.

Interesting, Edgar. Why, exactly, do you think it the best of my efforts? I value your comments since you, yourself, are a writer.

I don't know; it has universality and is not overly complicated. I value simplicity and incisive turn of phrase.

Simplicity and universality. That's something for me to think on, Edgar. Thank you.

Oh, Dear Letty,

you're not bound to slip away???

Steven Javan wrote:

"Have you ever smiled
And said goodnight
When you were really
Saying goodbye?"

[your poem makes me feel sad- scared that I am supposed to be 'brave' some more] loss does that to people.

Jackie, That is a delicious quote from Javan. I am not familiar with him, but I certainly need to be. Not to worry, if YOU come and find me gone, it will probably be because I'm in Cocoa Beach.

It is sad, however, when all smiles and contacts cease.

Letty, your poem is superb!

And, I love that you may be in Cocoa Beach, soon! You don't know how much I admire you!

Beautiful, Letty, just beautiful ...

Misti and Msolga, Thank you both for the dear words. Certainly does lift my spirits to know that I have friends both here and in the wide world of uncertaintly, especially those who appreciate what I write.

Letty

I've been much absorbed in other things, and only now
went back to see what I've been missing in this forum.

I'm glad I did.

There is a word I find myself using over and over to describe the poems I love . . .

your poem is 'poignant' . . . and lovely too.

Thank you, jjorge.

Do you have any tips on submitting stuff to publishers? No, it's not for me, but for a friend.

Letty, your poem is timeless in its beauty. I would add to jjorge's "poignant," the word "haunting." You have the ability to call up spirits.

Thank you, Lady Di.

and you're correct. There are a lot of ghosts in that poem.

Letty

I haven't a clue. . . but I'd be interested to hear whatever you may find out.

Come and gone... beyond
Hi Letty,

I like this one... a lot!
I tend to reply to poetry in semi-analytical fashion, (usually losing myself in tangential digressions)... I'm not sure if that is the norm for this board, still I'll blunder ahead hoping all and sundry might forgive my novice transgressions.

A lover's last lament for nepenthe?
I think rather this speaks as well of the lover of Life, pondering that inevitable faithless abandonment.
And yet this wonderful poem is also a work of Faith...
asserting that light lingers. Starlight is the perfect metaphor to express this.
Denying ebon eventide,
Grieving in the woe of nova.
A dying star's light lasts
so long beyond it's epitaph.

And as your poem suggests, it lives even beyond such faint illumination, shining so long as memory endures.
I love the way your poem refutes apathy and anonymity, on both a smaller and a larger stage.

Did I mention that I really like this poem?
I'm very glad I read this one.