tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post566190243640043884..comments2023-12-28T13:11:06.666+00:00Comments on Pics and Poems: The Ghost of Our Old SelvesDave Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08430484174826768488noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-58539322573695550632012-03-15T15:50:45.704+00:002012-03-15T15:50:45.704+00:00It feels good to accept and embrace our flaws, mak...It feels good to accept and embrace our flaws, makes us all the more human and humane.Helenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16619199535376925989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-85078963534291094082012-03-15T14:39:57.230+00:002012-03-15T14:39:57.230+00:00A wonderful reflection of how we stage ourselves i...A wonderful reflection of how we stage ourselves in nature - I think I appreciate my world more now too - see beauty I took for granted or never even noticed as a child.<br /><br />Anna :o]hyperCRYPTICalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11967085628384237933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-52406450074665051232012-03-14T13:37:44.598+00:002012-03-14T13:37:44.598+00:00A beautiful poem, sad, too. Strangely, I don'...A beautiful poem, sad, too. Strangely, I don't agree with the sentiments. I feel more in harmony with nature now than I did as a child. But certainly as a child I did not realise I was part of a larger world.Jenny Woolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16881781466502273314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-87797308538419435582012-03-14T09:57:15.246+00:002012-03-14T09:57:15.246+00:00Thanks Everyone
My apologies again for not being...<b>Thanks Everyone</b><br /><br />My apologies again for not being able to get round to you all individually. I fear there may bbe a few more such times in the near future.<br /><br />A special greeting and warm welcome to new visitors. Thank you for your company and a big thank you for comments left.<br /><br />Most of your comments pick up the change in the way lives are lived now to when we were children. Two changes, I suppose: in us and in the world around us, but I wouldn't care to be asked to unpick them.<br /><br />So much thanks once more, I really did appreciate every single comment.Dave Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08430484174826768488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-42350725332139870582012-03-14T04:51:11.261+00:002012-03-14T04:51:11.261+00:00Somedays very soft focus is required. Great poem ...Somedays very soft focus is required. Great poem thanks. I am still thinking about it - always a plus.Elephant's Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06650565833097914052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-57995053013403845962012-03-14T00:36:56.049+00:002012-03-14T00:36:56.049+00:00This is a really great read, even though I know wh...This is a really great read, even though I know what the image looks like, it loses nothing from Blogger being naughty. This poem is really good.Mystic_Momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00099062213372011260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-15027603296185671612012-03-14T00:04:01.189+00:002012-03-14T00:04:01.189+00:00I love that your poem and the thinking are modeled...I love that your poem and the thinking are modeled historically on a Wordsworth sonnet. The focus on our connection with nature is my favorite topic. How we reconnect is becoming more and more critical. Part of the disconnect has led to our longevity. Will we need to sacrifice that to reconnect? Back to more heavy laboring, hunting and less sitting around writing poetry.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03241402645242821612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-87523581658216917182012-03-13T23:36:45.840+00:002012-03-13T23:36:45.840+00:00Unpick a language or a home....do we really "...Unpick a language or a home....do we really "get" to pick them??? Or are we just thrown in, left to fend for ourselves? Thoughtful writing. LaurelLaurel's Quillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11992961037629400452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-89230476180725871792012-03-13T21:10:57.964+00:002012-03-13T21:10:57.964+00:00I reckon our childhoods were real childhoods :-).I reckon our childhoods were real childhoods :-).Windsmoke.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12225394580987872677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-84251602314159656352012-03-13T20:55:57.115+00:002012-03-13T20:55:57.115+00:00I like this alot. I am especially facinated by the...I like this alot. I am especially facinated by the last verse!Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05059957468044601830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-9212564268028872182012-03-13T20:07:29.478+00:002012-03-13T20:07:29.478+00:00I found this so moving and thought provoking.
You&...I found this so moving and thought provoking.<br />You've helped me to see with new eyes here!<br />Thank you Dave :)Ygrainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00300519608303898969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-54840637340014275942012-03-13T19:55:56.314+00:002012-03-13T19:55:56.314+00:00How was it the world pressing in was so comforting...How was it the world pressing in was so comforting back then? Wonderful write Dave...Tess Kincaidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04889725786678984293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-41149751574556857662012-03-13T19:02:30.811+00:002012-03-13T19:02:30.811+00:00Splendid echoes from "Intimations of immortal...Splendid echoes from "Intimations of immortality..." I feel, it's actually that atmosphere brought powerfully and sincerely in our day and age.<br />Great poem.Tommaso Gervasuttihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17137499390434949734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-64446093299647057402012-03-13T17:48:44.286+00:002012-03-13T17:48:44.286+00:00I really like how you used quotes and used notatio...I really like how you used quotes and used notations. That is really neat!<br /><br />"Soft focus would be great -<br />anything but this close-in confusion." <br /><br />This is my favourite line. I often wonder what the t.v. people who now appear in HD feel like when they see themselves on camera. Every little detail and flaw is exposed.<br /><br />I prefer obscurity.Kat Mortensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16877694888419628533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-55204071272051512352012-03-13T15:41:45.162+00:002012-03-13T15:41:45.162+00:00If only we could...this is lovely and true Dave!! ...If only we could...this is lovely and true Dave!! :-)Carrie Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11715648073882529202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-33490660903529159442012-03-13T15:39:07.273+00:002012-03-13T15:39:07.273+00:00When we're kids I think we're more accepti...When we're kids I think we're more accepting of everything in nature, something you get at here - we know its terrors or potential terrors and also its beauties. As adults we try to put wallpaper over all of that. I see it in the way adults try to assuage a child's fears. Denial, distance, the pretense that our lives are perfectly ordered, that we are not growing older and nearing death. And with that we also shut out the beauty, the fresh air.HKatzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17653570160517335758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-32536548442132758712012-03-13T13:57:18.679+00:002012-03-13T13:57:18.679+00:00Soft focus is what we all need, every now and then...Soft focus is what we all need, every now and then.Hannah Stephensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15792203070774504501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-76473901089558020422012-03-13T13:50:02.610+00:002012-03-13T13:50:02.610+00:00nice dave...the rediscovery of our face was the pa...nice dave...the rediscovery of our face was the part that moved me...how true...and nature...Brian Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722940075884718007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-70943378566946724572012-03-13T12:34:23.439+00:002012-03-13T12:34:23.439+00:00The world has changed drastically, even more so ov...The world has changed drastically, even more so over the past 20 years. Since we've entered the technological world of virtual reality, we maybe connected across the world but, it has caused us all to become isolated and, disconnected from our real world too. We are not changing for the better, either. <br />This says it all, in a nutshell.<br />Well written Dave, even without the image the prose is powerful enough and speaks for itself.Daydreamertoohttp://daydreamertoo.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-77067442515951100672012-03-13T11:16:40.270+00:002012-03-13T11:16:40.270+00:00Great poem for the prompt. I don't know if it...Great poem for the prompt. I don't know if it's language that we lack, or language that we have that stops us. Or just the body. Plus the drudge/rush of making a living. <br /><br />What's so strange is to read Wordsworth and Blake and their complaints and think of how natural their life seems to us now! They walked!!!!! In Nature!!!!<br /><br />Thanks for your kind comment re silly video. I have my OLN poem up now, but had been writing a lot--k.Manicddailyhttp://manicddaily.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-53028107010726040332012-03-13T11:16:39.766+00:002012-03-13T11:16:39.766+00:00Great poem for the prompt. I don't know if it...Great poem for the prompt. I don't know if it's language that we lack, or language that we have that stops us. Or just the body. Plus the drudge/rush of making a living. <br /><br />What's so strange is to read Wordsworth and Blake and their complaints and think of how natural their life seems to us now! They walked!!!!! In Nature!!!!<br /><br />Thanks for your kind comment re silly video. I have my OLN poem up now, but had been writing a lot--k.Manicddailyhttp://manicddaily.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-78323128597359422342012-03-13T10:16:01.082+00:002012-03-13T10:16:01.082+00:00"The ghost of our old selves,
the natural man..."The ghost of our old selves,<br />the natural man, is snagged<br />the other side of nature.<br />What's seen and what is known don't match."<br />Wonderful words, Dave. Love that stanza :)Rachna Chhabriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16900999965919504282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-66034072527296242842012-03-13T09:34:17.539+00:002012-03-13T09:34:17.539+00:00Are you being censored Dave?
Thoughful response t...Are you being censored Dave?<br /><br />Thoughful response to this weeks prompt.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com