tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3178437599315653605.post5002837426364131010..comments2023-10-12T08:21:27.253-07:00Comments on Gerry Boyd's Poetry: when I turned on Wyoming I got the Lackawanna bluesgerry boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08404762839765626232noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3178437599315653605.post-74954596696236791162009-09-06T16:27:07.953-07:002009-09-06T16:27:07.953-07:00Searching for answers, looking for questions and u...Searching for answers, looking for questions and understanding nothing yet enlightened with what you find or don't findWalkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15129182819187055533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3178437599315653605.post-954498750127975032009-08-26T08:08:34.357-07:002009-08-26T08:08:34.357-07:00erm, gerry... can i call you gary?erm, gerry... can i call you gary?katyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07329161994664435636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3178437599315653605.post-31555588017600550642009-08-26T08:07:53.419-07:002009-08-26T08:07:53.419-07:00gary, have i ever posted a comment on one of you p...gary, have i ever posted a comment on one of you poems? don't remember. <br /><br />anyway, this one begs for a comment.<br /><br />ahem ;)<br /><br />i love what you did with the ahems in part i.<br /><br />it's like someone said, you have to really pay attention, to focus, but the ahem just sort of drops it all out of focus, which then forces you back in.<br /><br />it reminded me a reading i went to where the poet, can't remember his name at the mo but someone like kenneth koch except not, an old gentlemen anyway, wich some stuff in the New American Anthology of Poetry (with washington on the cover, right?)... he'd had a sore throat so he took a cough drop before he went on to read. except the cough drop was still in his mouth as he read, and he had to stop between stanzas to swirl it around his mouth. he commented on it and it was humourous, but also very very very surreal in a way. you've done the same thing with ahems here. where you're really into the poem and the tone and the colors and then the poet reminds you he's human, ahem.<br /><br /><br />(yeah, so i could have written a whole blog post about your ahems)katyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07329161994664435636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3178437599315653605.post-56514940675880108302009-08-25T08:29:01.173-07:002009-08-25T08:29:01.173-07:00romance consecrated in neon never really dies
oh,...romance consecrated in neon never really dies<br /><br />oh, yeah.jack senderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08935449260703670377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3178437599315653605.post-54973975507333268232009-08-18T16:23:57.552-07:002009-08-18T16:23:57.552-07:00unto: I want to get biblical, biblical; apologies ...unto: I want to get biblical, biblical; apologies to Olivia Newton John.<br /><br />Thanks on the "kept". Typo. My bad. No comma required after correction.gerry boydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08404762839765626232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3178437599315653605.post-45606264872410704542009-08-18T06:20:47.842-07:002009-08-18T06:20:47.842-07:00Too bloody long!
You knew I would say that, right?...Too bloody long!<br />You knew I would say that, right? Ha! <br />Why have you used 'unto'? How I read such it reads 'into' or 'onto'; but that's just me Gerry and you know me *sigh*<br />'that kept keeping that me, from finding that you.' I put a comma in after 'me' Hey? Just how my ears hear; you.<br />Fantastic use of language as always and thought provoking images, that my poor brain will contemplate for some time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3178437599315653605.post-33896745589141029802009-08-17T17:48:05.995-07:002009-08-17T17:48:05.995-07:00(applause)
amazing work - love how languid and el...(applause)<br /><br />amazing work - love how languid and elastic it feels - with room to wander and wonder and think.joaquin carvelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03193680725157157864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3178437599315653605.post-57158557787176612042009-08-17T16:57:06.915-07:002009-08-17T16:57:06.915-07:00I love how you have created the neon scene in the ...I love how you have created the neon scene in the unexpected colour words linked to such mundane and lovely seashores... I was then delighted to see the line: romance consecrated in neon never really dies.... and the poignancy of the search for " that you " ( as opposed to ...) <br /><br />I liked how the descriptive language was as sweet as the story.Harlequinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04964772119118368322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3178437599315653605.post-64501626967775583532009-08-17T11:18:38.379-07:002009-08-17T11:18:38.379-07:00WOW...
My favorite was 'hush, hush, you said,
...WOW...<br />My favorite was 'hush, hush, you said,<br />go into the reeds and be rabbit still<br />and wake me in the morning.'<br />Nice one...Long and learned a whole bunch of new words..:))<br />Beautiful..keep writing..!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3178437599315653605.post-37895546053286199772009-08-16T16:44:24.679-07:002009-08-16T16:44:24.679-07:00Wow. I had to focus on that one. It took me places...Wow. I had to focus on that one. It took me places in my memory that I didn't know existed. Beautiful places. Childhood places, and Seaside places, where I walked last week. Amazing. I'll have to reread it--and reread--and reread...don't be emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12610909211896466990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3178437599315653605.post-71420677887047045442009-08-16T15:16:41.349-07:002009-08-16T15:16:41.349-07:00Nostalgic and quirky... I like it a lot... the way...Nostalgic and quirky... I like it a lot... the way we journey through the narrator's memory :)CathMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14143141734424055810noreply@blogger.com