tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post8283973002736277630..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Waning Crescent MoonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-73079802316310457212012-12-09T03:33:30.505-08:002012-12-09T03:33:30.505-08:00Hi Loretta, and thanks for letting me know.
I can...Hi Loretta, and thanks for letting me know.<br /><br />I can't access Facebook so alas I won't be able to join your lunar adoration society (other than in spirit!).<br /><br />The poem should be presented as "copyright Tom Clark, 2011".<br /><br />And it would be swell if you could put a link to my blog on that page, so that others can look.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-31034809096857753712012-12-08T18:26:35.496-08:002012-12-08T18:26:35.496-08:00I just discovered your blog and it's a wondrou...I just discovered your blog and it's a wondrous place. I borrowed one of your poems and a picture of the waning crescent moon to post on my facebook page called luna adoration society. I hope this is not a problem. If it is just let me know and I will delete. Loretta Markellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04411123116369869175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-66747890646960652011-11-01T09:21:44.580-07:002011-11-01T09:21:44.580-07:00..Robbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12312524900784740898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-76860079630449113592011-11-01T09:21:33.196-07:002011-11-01T09:21:33.196-07:00Beautiful
"tereavi"Beautiful<br /><br />"tereavi"Robbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12312524900784740898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-5333140864062386442011-10-25T05:41:22.390-07:002011-10-25T05:41:22.390-07:00Thank you, Merrill. You may disturb us in thus wis...Thank you, Merrill. You may disturb us in thus wise any time.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-52439148771995601882011-10-24T13:10:02.198-07:002011-10-24T13:10:02.198-07:00Such posts... even the praise seems a disturbance....Such posts... even the praise seems a disturbance. Entering the silence I hear the music still. In gratitude, Merrillsnowbirdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15316143918251372333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-69723087360354518592011-10-24T06:10:30.060-07:002011-10-24T06:10:30.060-07:00Thanks, everyone, for these sips of moonlight.
(G...Thanks, everyone, for these sips of moonlight.<br /><br />(Gideon's Bible, what a great song.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-84591221521275155182011-10-24T04:27:43.053-07:002011-10-24T04:27:43.053-07:00Flawless, yes.
The perfect way to start the morn...Flawless, yes. <br />The perfect way to start the morning, a trip over to this blog.Nin Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12643167108589844026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-25438103627350601642011-10-23T10:51:07.520-07:002011-10-23T10:51:07.520-07:00Tom,
"Later the light
spike heel hoof
clic...Tom,<br /><br />"Later the light<br /> spike heel hoof<br /> click. . ."<br /><br />"Bird flying with faint crescent moon in background: artist unknown. . ."<br /><br />10.23<br /><br />light coming into sky above still black<br />ridge, waning white moon next to branch<br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> left at this point, so that<br /> those that remain are<br /><br /> things called that, variant<br /> form, element defined<br /><br />blinding silver edge of sun above ridge,<br />curved whiteness of moon across from itSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-61293263149187572532011-10-23T08:58:08.563-07:002011-10-23T08:58:08.563-07:00I can only echo Don's praise. I've been en...I can only echo Don's praise. I've been engaged in what can loosely be called "bird research" over the past day, and seeing these images at the close of that effort is fascinating. Like Conrad, the unknown Japanese artist makes his mirroring work look easy. Whenever I think of the geniuses who learned to write beautifully in a language that wasn't their native tongue, I recall the line in that John Cale song, Gideon's Bible, describing, I believe, his own transition from Welsh to English: "Moving up the golden ropes of a foreign language/Stretching out verbs and nouns together in a greeting." The Conrad passage is breathtaking. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-21598537311732815702011-10-23T07:21:53.616-07:002011-10-23T07:21:53.616-07:00Don,
Many thanks, my friend.
I could imagine Nab...Don,<br /><br />Many thanks, my friend.<br /><br />I could imagine Nabokov writing those sentences. <br /><br />Learned English in both cases results in a product that is perceptibly "made".TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-10886259986223418892011-10-23T05:28:34.935-07:002011-10-23T05:28:34.935-07:00Another beauty, Tom, the cadence of the first stan...Another beauty, Tom, the cadence of the first stanza is sublime ... fantastic visuals and ...<br /><br />Can it really be that Conrad learned English as a third language? This prose is positively transcendent - perhaps even Mr. Nabokov would find (I first wrote fine, a Freudian slip if ever there was one) it flawless.<br /><br />DonIssa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.com