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Bruce Johnson
29 Apr 2020, 15:09
Keats and Frost and song
Your post on Keats's "Bright Star" only slightly preceded the 2009 film of that name, which tells the story of Fanny Brawne, his true love, who inspired the poem

(I actually came here for more on…
uo_xo_xo
1 Mar 2020, 09:44
Well what do you know?
Thank you for "If I Had to Say", it's really powerful. I've come across your journal in search for interesting posts on Shakespeare (whose works I really love and translate into my native Russian)…
Tricia Stohr-Hunt
4 Aug 2019, 17:18
As the crows fly—an ekphrastic poem for Poetry Friday
I love that you moved from crows to phoenixes to doves. I can see them all in way you've described them here and in relation to the image. What a lovely poem.
mlyearofreading
2 Aug 2019, 23:54
As the crows fly—an ekphrastic poem for Poetry Friday
It's like looking, then blinking and looking again, then another blink and another look. LOVE it!
tanita_s_davis
2 Aug 2019, 18:43
As the crows fly—an ekphrastic poem for Poetry Friday
Ash phoenixes and doves?! Wow. This is perfect, grappling delicately with both a history of rising from ashes and the carrion crows of violence, adding at the end a subtle song of peace. Beautifully…