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The work you do here is incredible! Your poem is so great.

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Awwww thank you so much - really appreciate the kind words 🖤 And so glad you enjoyed my offering. Means a lot.

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I love how you crafted this:

not not not

becomes

knots

becomes

knits

becomes

nets

becomes

nest

becomes

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Cheers Kerry - I was quite pleased with that moment. It was the last section of the poem to arrive, and sort of examples some theories I have about language and creation as well :-)

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this image!

"the violent sea,

with its white fangs"

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Yeah it’s so vivid! Wonderful stuff.

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Thank you for this refresher on Edward Storer, and the context of his work. Your poem is fabulous.

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Cheers Zivah - you are very welcome. :-) Awww thank you - I really appreciate it, and am so glad you enjoyed my verse.

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"From the Mountains" really moved me in a nice way. I think I like the Imagist movement!

Your poem captured some of this beautifully. My inner experience of the bird is very vivid and unruly.

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Yeah, the various iterations of the Imagists are all really interesting. I mean, pretty much the greater portion of free-verse after about 1915 was "imagistic" in nature, rather than "narrativistic". But, the two groups known as "imagists" produced some really great poets.

Aw cheers - that matches with how I see the bird as well. 🖤

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Glad to be learning something new!

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Happiest of holidays, Dick! What a great selection on this morning of Eve.

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Cheers Kim! Happiest of holidays to you too 🖤

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Love your work Dick. Magic! Your poem is really cool. Love 'Fragment' and 'Image' too!

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Thanks so much Síodhna - I really appreciate it. 🖤

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Your poetry never ceases to amaze me, Dick. Thank you. 🖤

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Aw thanks Fotini 🖤 Sending lots of warm thoughts.

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Love them all, and yours, Dick. Merry Christmas!

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Aw thanks Portia - appreciate it! Merry Christmas to you and yours too 🖤

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