Thank you so much! I'm glad it carries a bit of the same raw emotion that I felt when taking this (kinda impressed with myself honestly), and makes a good impact :)
This is freaking amazing!! I love how you used the lines and how you spaced the words to add emotion to the story, and the last line caught me off guard, leaving me grinning and wishing for more. I am forever going to think about the winding pathways of memory like this.
I've never read a poem about the experience of reincarnation before, and this grabbed me right away. I could picture it, this person tumbling through this abyss, questions racing in their head, their final transformation. That in their last form they seem to find peace and come to an understanding of their true identity makes perfect sense to me.
Wow, what a beautiful representation of the brain's tendency toward compartmentalization -- and the heart's ability to muck up that filing system with all its messy emotions, huh? You took the library metaphor all the way, which I delighted in reading. Your last line expressed your wit and strength of character, and had exactly the impact I'm sure you were hoping it'd have.
"Fairy Tale Children" is being featured this week on vtdigger.org, which you can all check out now (vtdigger.org/life-culture) in their Life & Culture section!
This is the beauty of people-watching, isn't it? I loved this for that reason: You saw the possibilities, the many lives of this stranger... I almost wished you had taken it further, ran with one of those lives and personalities, but I realized describing a fully fleshed-out character is not what this poem is meant to convey!
Thank you so much! I'm glad it carries a bit of the same raw emotion that I felt when taking this (kinda impressed with myself honestly), and makes a good impact :)
I hope you know how much this means to me! I'm so glad it had a lasting impact on you, it's the kind of thing I hope for as a writer <3
Thank you so much!! It's always so helpful and really validating to see when someone gets what I was trying to say, and enjoys it <3
This is freaking amazing!! I love how you used the lines and how you spaced the words to add emotion to the story, and the last line caught me off guard, leaving me grinning and wishing for more. I am forever going to think about the winding pathways of memory like this.
Wow! Thanks so much for deciding to publish this! It's so cool.
I've never read a poem about the experience of reincarnation before, and this grabbed me right away. I could picture it, this person tumbling through this abyss, questions racing in their head, their final transformation. That in their last form they seem to find peace and come to an understanding of their true identity makes perfect sense to me.
Wow, what a beautiful representation of the brain's tendency toward compartmentalization -- and the heart's ability to muck up that filing system with all its messy emotions, huh? You took the library metaphor all the way, which I delighted in reading. Your last line expressed your wit and strength of character, and had exactly the impact I'm sure you were hoping it'd have.
"Winter Sun" is being featured this week on vtdigger.org, which you can all check out now (vtdigger.org/life-culture) in their Life & Culture section!
"Fairy Tale Children" is being featured this week on vtdigger.org, which you can all check out now (vtdigger.org/life-culture) in their Life & Culture section!
This is the beauty of people-watching, isn't it? I loved this for that reason: You saw the possibilities, the many lives of this stranger... I almost wished you had taken it further, ran with one of those lives and personalities, but I realized describing a fully fleshed-out character is not what this poem is meant to convey!