This is wonderful, I think it's my favourite poem of yours. Just magical, everything that poetry should be. I really love this format for your work, video and spoken word, your voice carries the words like the waves of the sea.
Eliza, Thank you for ‘dropping by’ here on Substack to share your thoughts on ‘Rolling Waves’.
I’m particularly happy to know that you enjoyed having the spoken-word version of the poem alongside the written form of the poem, together with my thoughts on writing it.
John, Thank you for this meditative and sweetly powerful piece. It is like a lullaby, or a practice to acknowledge and liberate attachment, loss, hope, fear… And I can absolutely sense a song in this (as I do in almost all of your pieces). The cadence, the repetitions, the flow. And of course, I already happen to know that you are a fantastic musician.
Thank you for “effing the ineffable” — so perfectly apt!
There’s a roadrunner strolling by my window in the sunshine and the edge of winter in the breeze—may we all be replenished, may we all be comforted, may we all be nurtured—just and completely ineffable—
A simple powerful poem. Gives me a yearning and the sound of your voice is fabulous.
This is wonderful, I think it's my favourite poem of yours. Just magical, everything that poetry should be. I really love this format for your work, video and spoken word, your voice carries the words like the waves of the sea.
Eliza, Thank you for ‘dropping by’ here on Substack to share your thoughts on ‘Rolling Waves’.
I’m particularly happy to know that you enjoyed having the spoken-word version of the poem alongside the written form of the poem, together with my thoughts on writing it.
John, Thank you for this meditative and sweetly powerful piece. It is like a lullaby, or a practice to acknowledge and liberate attachment, loss, hope, fear… And I can absolutely sense a song in this (as I do in almost all of your pieces). The cadence, the repetitions, the flow. And of course, I already happen to know that you are a fantastic musician.
Thank you for “effing the ineffable” — so perfectly apt!
There’s a roadrunner strolling by my window in the sunshine and the edge of winter in the breeze—may we all be replenished, may we all be comforted, may we all be nurtured—just and completely ineffable—
Thank you so much for your kind words of appreciation from the other side of the world, Anastasia…!!
It’s good to see you here on Substack….
Lucky you for your encounter with a roadrunner…!!