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Selected poetry by Ariana Rink and John Williamson:

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Baron

Another enjoyable read with some powerful images. I was expecting something inspired by Tmothy Leary when I read the title and was pleasantly disappointed.

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apple

Some of your poetry pulls such an unexplainable deep level of "knowing" from me. Very powerful stuff.

SadLuckDame

A beauty Mirror, loved this piece~

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Well, it was a nice check, Kitty, and really I might have won, if it hadn't been for that nasty Knight, that came wriggling down among my pieces. Kitty, dear, let's pretend -- -" And here I wish I could tell you half the things Alice used to say, beginning with her favorite phrase "Let's pretend."
written by Lewis Carroll

MisterJack

No crits from me on this one Mirror. Nicely executed, smooth pace, good structure. Wonderful visuals as usual.

Beautiful poem

Jack

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NotSoTypical

Beautiful poetry! Very evocative.

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Mirror

Thank you, Baron (no Leary for me, just personal life as inspiration), apple, Sad, Jack, NotSo. I'm glad it worked for you.

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Selected poetry by Ariana Rink and John Williamson:

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Eiji Tunsinagi

This poem is so fascinating. Poems styled like this always are. It's like each word is a piece of something, like something on a forest floor. Any it's all very earthy and - I wouldn't say abstract (though I just did) - but actually create a feeling. It was deep, but not self conscious. Hmm...

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"nothing is perfect, nothing lasts, and nothing is finished."

"how will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?"

Ilasir Maroa

It reads and sounds quite wonderful(ly), but I have no idea what the hell it's supposed to be about... I would definitely use "abstract" to describe it.

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DavidBetzer

woman, thy name is economy, and in the spending of your selected currency, their is no inflation, only gain in the value of your coinage

dannyboy

hate the opening line

but then I love the rest so that ain't too bad.

on skins that world
sheds each morning
to become perfect
sphere.

to me, this bit is more than good, this is breathtaking.

Mirror

I like that. Economy.

Eiji, Ilasir, thanks for commenting. It's about predestined departure from earthly vanity (see world shedding skins).

dannyboy, thanks. I'll look at the opening line.

Mirror

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FollowingShadow

The first stanza is a poem in and of itself. That was incredible. There's something to captivating about the male character-- I don't quite understand him and therefore I want to study him. I've read and reread the poem about half a dozen times now.

How is the speaker relevant to the poem? Why the 1st person self-references?

Mirror

Shadow, are you following me? =)

To answer questions - As I pointed out to Eiji and Ilasir, it concerns predestined departure from earthly vanity, to put it laconically. The title should hint at that first portion of the phrase. Yes, the speaker is a male child whose fate lies beyond this earth, its changing skins. He unifies with the heavenly, the ethereal, combing the wind, giving earth feet color. Of course, he dies, dissolving in fog milk - yet another unification. Ironically, it is the cities (dirty, vain, polluted) that pay him homage. As for the first person reference, he is mine; thus, all his actions boomerang to me.

Thanks for commenting on my pieces. Much appreciated.

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Selected poetry by Ariana Rink and John Williamson:

http://www.lulu.com/content/2956099