Poetic Reviews

Collection of poems I've written as reviews

For Carlos Lorenzo Estrada's poem 'Chason de Choix'

A wordless poet dies
A songless dancer takes a seat
A visionless painter cries
A pure heart beats

Pumping reason into rhyme
Transferring grace in melody
Flowing red in loving time
Drowning hatred in ecstasy

Of self definition
And decisions made
Leading heart's intuition
Within memories that fade

In the mind of a poet
Speaking truth they strive
To choose thoughts we can't forget
Writing words that come alive!

For John the Baptist's poem 'Envy and Greed'

Sins indeed
But the truth of your words are in my mind like a seed
Growing in a garden where darkness does feed
But when both have my hand as I try to weed
From my life that unconscious need
I'll remember your poem, and try to heed.

In Ada's poem 'Pancakes' she asks.....
"If I were syrup what part of your mind would you lick me up with?"

With my temporal tongue I taste...
The essence of your synaptic syrup
The cream of your brainy butter
The soft of your spongy matter.

With my culinary cortex I lick....
The sweet of your flowing desire
The salt of your ephemeral fetish
The milk of your griddled fire.

With my 'liscious lobes I devour...
The amber pool of satisfaction
The blonde pad deliquescing
The golden pan caked in memories...

of magnificent meals made in our minds!

For Cherrie Palmer's...

'Swaying Willow'

The willow swayed in a gust of imagination
Freeing the words caught in a spell
And your fingers fumbled trying to catch the pages
Carried on winds of thought in a brisk embrace

and 'Apocalypse of Puppies'

Kitties
Fuzzy eclipse
Climbing legs of fate
A meowing melee of go
Get 'em

For Julie McCarthy (juliespenhere)'s poem 'Fairie Glows'

I caught a kiss from beyond
Carried on a breeze
Woven brightly with
Fairie glows
So I saw with all my sight
Trapped up top and all afright
By muddy barking guards that left a fairie stuck
So I flew and found and tried
To ease her fears and with me fly
Into a future living way
Hoping it's not done
Blowing feelings written fond!

2022 and 21

Author's Note

I certainly hope you guys don't mind that I do this. I can't help it. I do this with almost every poem I read but usually just find something nice to say and share my thoughts. But Billigami will have his way. If you read my reviews and comments you'll find more. Or get one...

Reviews

[Cherrie Palmer]

I think for those of us who have been reading reviews on our poetry. This is a fun change of pace.
PS I see you finally beat the system and posted your picture. :)

[William Michael Reeves]

It is fun to find those hidden revealed things in other people's poems then get inspired by them. Covert collaboration. I'll call the next one that. I could fill a page with yours.

Not the pic I wanted to use. Gounwah suggested I resize but I didn't have luck with that but the site took an older pic that was taken with a different camera. I'll keep working on it. This pic is 20 years old! But of course I haven't changed a bit!! I should be able to post my older sculptures so watch for those.