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afishamongmany said: ↑ Is it a 'good' thing to be blown away? So ewq - will any old wind do? Psalm 1 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the of the Lord, and on his law he...

Yep :). The point I'm making still stands. Form - Content - Intent! In any engagement with art (communication), what exactly are we responding to? Is the cause of our response 'good'? Is our response to it 'good'? What exactly is blowing us away? Is it a 'good' thing to be blown away? Where...

Hi ewq - Emily D was a great poetess and she's written some very good poetry. Maybe I'm just an insensitive clod :) but no that's not what 'good' poetry does for me. For me there may be a warming, an awakening, maybe a tingle, a touch, a vivifying, maybe a smile, maybe sorrow. I'm not even sure...

Hello WildCBG - Welcome to CF. Nearly missed this. Nothing shallow about this piece of work cobber :). Nicely done, to the point, readable. I'm wondering what kind of reaction it would get in the Christian Apologetics' sub-forum? Anyway hope we see more from you. Go Well ><>

Hello Eugene - Welcome to CF. I quite enjoyed reading your piece but for me it was a description of someone's dream rather than a story. A dream filled with interesting imagery and probably filled with lots of significance for the person having the dream but no story or characters to follow...

Hello @forlovingHim - Welcome to CF. I've read through (quickly) your #20. You've obviously care and have given a lot of thought to this. I'd like to take time and give what you say more detailed scrutiny. But for now just to say I think that on some points you over complicate and fudge...

Hi Jack - I hear what you're saying but come on, is everything that is memorable also good, true, just, virtuous? Go well ><>

Hello acf - Welcome to CF. Who are some of your go to poets? Yes 'touches the heart' but to what effect? 'Speaks' yes but what does it says good or bad, true or false, or just cardboard? Go well ><>

Hi Hammster - No, your confusion is clear enough (if clear confusion is possible :)). Firstly, John 12:39,40 is John quoting Isaiah 6. They are not the words of Jesus. Secondly, the Isaiah 6 verses are different in Isaiah 6 KJV - Isaiah 6 Septuagint - John 12 KJV. The differences are...

Yes ewq I do. But the problem (I think) is with the word 'religious'. Many (maybe most) people confuse and elide 'religion' and spiritual realities. Frost's superb apple picking poem is not about 'religion' but it is packed to bursting with spiritual realities. In God we live and move and have...

Good one ewq! but Said Zebedi nonchalantly sipping his tea Rhyme can be sublime but sometime a chime a chant a twisting slant that ignores you can't can be the plant that bears the rarest fragrantest flower that rears the shining climbing tower that awakens sleeping weeping cowards to see and...

Hello Daniël - A small poem that speaks much. Go well, ><>

Good to see you again Princess - A good from the heart poem. He is in mighty rushing wind. He is in the gentlest of breezes. Go well, ><> Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may...

Hi Ttalkugjil - I took too long and they wuz gone. But next time! :) Is your name korean? Does it mean something? Your avatar, what is it? Go well ><>

Yo Crossnotes! Better stay in your shell then? :) Bedtime for me, go well brother. ><>

Ding! Dong! Who's that ringing my doorbell? That ding-dong-dinging's hard to ignore. Better get out of my shell. Have they got nice stuff to sell? Or are they collecting for the poor? Who's that ringing my doorbell? Someone with a tale to tell? Or my needy neighbour needing more? Better get...

Salut Starry - Non je ne suis pas un Français. Je suis britannique. But we have live here many years. No-one is born 'skilled' at anything :). A villanelle poem is probably one of the easier ones to become skilled at. Once you've got the first three lines, because of the repeats, it means that...

Hello starryshadows - Welcome to CF. A good poem evoking evening to night transformation. Thank you also for prompting/inciting more quality poetry to be posted from more different people than we have had for many a month. Looking forward to seeing more of your stuff. ewq's plastic flowers...

Home is … ? A poem in three parts Part I Is that our home, there where we hang our hats? There, where we boil our eggs and stroke the cat? Knowing each cranny of our ingle nook We turn the pages of our well thumbed book. Home, sweet home! yet, there is still an unease. Cat-like it comes, our...

Hi TMC - Only read a few of the opening posts so sorry if this has already been put on the table. But as to time being a measurement of motion/change - If we close our eyes, count to ten in our heads then open our eyes and everything is exactly the same, that is, nothing has moved or changed...