tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8912094816780327975.post4486059051583562736..comments2023-12-05T23:02:28.580-05:00Comments on Excursions and Diversions: Just SeeingSteve Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04818671944215117618noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8912094816780327975.post-82875783902120215672014-03-20T11:21:46.823-04:002014-03-20T11:21:46.823-04:00This is a wonderful look at the reality of ourselv...This is a wonderful look at the reality of ourselves, and how painful and fascinating that observation can be. <br /><br />Love these lines: "captive in a growing horde<br />of disappointed shades—"<br /><br />The whole last stanza really brought it all home perfectly.mrs mediocrityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01021079985184737831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8912094816780327975.post-70712461768135251002014-03-19T16:47:31.625-04:002014-03-19T16:47:31.625-04:00This is extremely cool - an arresting thought that...This is extremely cool - an arresting thought that the image in the mirror remains behind......."and leave that presence lingering". Very cool write!Sherry Blue Skyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10769154286598233146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8912094816780327975.post-73641067434585749752014-03-19T15:09:39.844-04:002014-03-19T15:09:39.844-04:00Hey Steve--I love the idea of getting the "fl...Hey Steve--I love the idea of getting the "flip" side of one's meanings-- though of course, one too often gets those--<br /><br />The cleverness of looking back- and looking backwards is very striking, and the whole otherness of that being before ourselves--<br /><br /><br />there are also so many near double meanings and shades of meaning --I especially like the inability to wonder from behind the glass, which is like the inability to wander away from it--and the shades which are like ghosts but also the darker part of one's selves--or if not darker--those shadowy selves that we cannot quite grasp--as always very elegantly and beautifully rendered. k. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8912094816780327975.post-39395891056556629222014-03-19T12:56:24.500-04:002014-03-19T12:56:24.500-04:00Mirrors and masks are always fascinating, I think-...Mirrors and masks are always fascinating, I think--and what they reveal or conceal says a great deal about our personal reality(the one we only show ourselves, the one we never show ourselves) I love the way this almost seems to waver, like a mirror image in flickering light, as reflections both physical and mental change the viewing. My favorite lines:<br />"... I cannot fathom what the mirror knows —<br />I cannot wonder from behind the glass,<br />can never hope to find myself by looking.."hedgewitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13090696134322515899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8912094816780327975.post-85109598971714973572014-03-18T22:44:42.712-04:002014-03-18T22:44:42.712-04:00We often look at our features and not into our eye...We often look at our features and not into our eyes - this is an interesting take as to why and what might happen if we did. Margarethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00007201357693227614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8912094816780327975.post-52033852604363418382014-03-18T13:43:42.122-04:002014-03-18T13:43:42.122-04:00Such a haunting quality to this piece--and maybe t...Such a haunting quality to this piece--and maybe to the way we see ourselves or look away--thoughty piece for me--and I tend to like them that wayAudrey Howitt aka Divaloungerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06854425983822589062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8912094816780327975.post-49105934642888834382014-03-18T08:46:18.209-04:002014-03-18T08:46:18.209-04:00Hi Jo-hanna,
I had just intended this as a respons...Hi Jo-hanna,<br />I had just intended this as a response to the open link, not a Constanza. Thanks much for the generous comment.<br />Steve K.Steve Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04818671944215117618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8912094816780327975.post-10798752976458144692014-03-18T05:11:21.749-04:002014-03-18T05:11:21.749-04:00Seems like we're both instructed and fooled by...Seems like we're both instructed and fooled by our senses, especially what we see, which perforce inverts and goes upside down beaming from one eye into the opposite lobe of the brain. Tricky stuff ... Egyptians believed the Otherworld was upside down and backwards from this one, a sort of Bizarro World perspective that, like dreams, was hauntingly close to but irretrievably far from this one. Then there is the mind's eye which sees what the naked eye cannot, and sometimes blurs the vision trying to see what it believes. Somehow the poem has to make sense of all that, find a middle way. Nice job, Steve.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8912094816780327975.post-58144520137322731172014-03-18T03:34:56.797-04:002014-03-18T03:34:56.797-04:00Couldn't quite see it in the guise of a Consta...Couldn't quite see it in the guise of a Constanza but it is an exceptional poem. Love the flow of thought and observations.The way the mirror image becomes its own being, stirs dis-ease and the thought could make one uncomfortable with this half-reality.avalonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08051456576217305095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8912094816780327975.post-33617889843684874552014-03-17T21:53:14.730-04:002014-03-17T21:53:14.730-04:00I'm not often given to looking into my eyes - ...I'm not often given to looking into my eyes - the idea is frightening to me. I'm far from deciphering my mystery and I do appreciate you being friends with your inside. <3Kenia Santoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12893148474912410033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8912094816780327975.post-65812455822993990072014-03-17T17:41:43.038-04:002014-03-17T17:41:43.038-04:00great work, Steve! ...so good to see you here :) ...great work, Steve! ...so good to see you here :) xo <br /><br />~jackie~<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8912094816780327975.post-35336577735265384702014-03-17T16:08:27.409-04:002014-03-17T16:08:27.409-04:00why is that? i like this reflection, a chance to p...why is that? i like this reflection, a chance to pause and ponder. very nice.Marianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04030161532713347225noreply@blogger.com