tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4800938683262569469.post3877638975367593932..comments2024-03-14T01:11:49.757-06:00Comments on chasing the long white cloud: For the Sycamore (Poem)Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08502527563795165435noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4800938683262569469.post-87045437080408558272009-07-08T01:47:17.888-06:002009-07-08T01:47:17.888-06:00.
Luisa---
You should really read Tyler's pr....<br /><br />Luisa---<br /><br />You should really read Tyler's preEliot poetry. Of course, it relies more heavily on properly arranged rhymes and trochees, but it doesn't have any poorly researched fruit metaphors.<br /><br />Really, meeting Eliot was the worst thing that ever could have happened to Tyler IMHO. And not just because of the changes to his poetry. Since then he has stopped Th.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4800938683262569469.post-90902278327634172262009-07-07T10:08:57.752-06:002009-07-07T10:08:57.752-06:00Oh, and there's also this.Oh, and there's also <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=33Ib51MYhCIC&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=fig+tree+%2B+eden&source=bl&ots=VIIaSrNIqL&sig=iWAkVzRKgHyqlWnNe4JIHICPDIE&hl=en&ei=lXJTSpSmNoLKsQPZ0PCKBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6" rel="nofollow">this</a>.Tylerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08502527563795165435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4800938683262569469.post-22041890178071354072009-07-07T10:05:32.676-06:002009-07-07T10:05:32.676-06:00Okay, Michaela and Brillig: color me ashamed for l...Okay, Michaela and Brillig: color me ashamed for lack of proper research and cover my ignorance with fig leaves. Thanks for catching my figgy virgin faux pas. I didn't realize figs weren't so juicy, but I need figs to work here because of what they represent: 1) fertility and reproduction and 2) God's covenant people (<a href="http://deseretbook.com/store/product/4468455" rel="Tylerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08502527563795165435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4800938683262569469.post-21506287825103752022009-07-07T00:16:37.159-06:002009-07-07T00:16:37.159-06:00Well, Luisa, I'm flattered you "love"...Well, Luisa, I'm flattered you "love" my post-Eliot poetry. I've been reading <i>Four Quartets</i> for the first time (though I've read much of his other work before), letting the ideas and the language simmer in my mind. He's definitely been an influence on my writing, so to have myself connected with him (even so loosely as you've done) is, well, an ego boost.<br /Tylerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08502527563795165435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4800938683262569469.post-83403059920308655082009-07-07T00:14:22.937-06:002009-07-07T00:14:22.937-06:00Gorgeous. My eloquence ends there, I'm afraid...Gorgeous. My eloquence ends there, I'm afraid. I don't have Luisa's talent for review. But I read your poem and to me it's beautiful.<br /><br />(But, as someone who spent a great deal of her youth in Jerusalem, and has therefore eaten more than her fair share of figs, I have to agree with Michaela that figs don't drip. I SO wish they did, because I love the way you said Brillighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13694582598855276158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4800938683262569469.post-22788846351320245962009-07-06T23:52:25.158-06:002009-07-06T23:52:25.158-06:00"knowledge dripping from her lips
like the j..."knowledge dripping from her lips<br /><br />like the juice from a thousand figs"<br /><br />Have you ever eaten a fresh fig? Juice does not drip from them like a ripe peach. When I tasted fresh figs, I thought they reminded me a lot of biting into a cream-filled candy because the middle was so...mmmmmmmmm... yummy.. only mildly sweet, but..I loved the texture. But they don't Michaela Stephenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04163084369311708249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4800938683262569469.post-48041839305260116352009-07-06T18:47:57.519-06:002009-07-06T18:47:57.519-06:00The poem:
I should probably gather some more syno...The poem:<br /><br />I should probably gather some more synonyms for "lovely," or my comments on your poetry will all start to sound the same. <br /><br />And I should mention that I'm very picky about any poetry written post-Eliot. But I love yours.<br /><br />I love the parallel you've drawn between Christ calling to Zacchaeus and God calling to Eve. And the last line slaysLuisa Perkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15310698422276446909noreply@blogger.com