tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13326268.post113682949617753506..comments2024-03-11T13:06:54.859-07:00Comments on Esther's Writing Works : Esther’s Classes, Trigger poem by Cathy Song, Week of Jan. 9, '06Esther Altshul Helfgotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17197997357138853342noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13326268.post-40577435546170874512010-04-22T10:37:07.909-07:002010-04-22T10:37:07.909-07:00Those lines are written in such a way to set up th...Those lines are written in such a way to set up the importance of her work. Poetry is being compared to house cleaning, but house keeping is being down played. Those line make the suggestion that her poetry was more important than keeping up the house, but she was not arrogant about the importance of the poetry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13326268.post-1136950880154178322006-01-10T19:41:00.000-08:002006-01-10T19:41:00.000-08:00Esther,Thank you for beginning the New Year with t...Esther,<BR/><BR/>Thank you for beginning the New Year with this wonderful poem!<BR/><BR/>Trigger poem: “A Poet in the House” by Cathy Song, presented January 9th, 2006, inspired me to write:<BR/><BR/><BR/> Poet’s room<BR/><BR/>Carpe diem…<BR/>moments in my life change,<BR/>in shape, sound and memories,<BR/>The “consummate” closet thinker…<BR/>“Poet” of a free world,<BR/>striving for some sign or<BR/>song…<BR/>that brings forth a flood of emotion,<BR/>spilling over and bubbling like a brook…<BR/>streaming words together,<BR/>woven, enter twined -- enmeshed<BR/>in the darkest recess<BR/>of my mind, time and space,<BR/>taking the air from one room,<BR/>thrusting it into my study…<BR/>where books, ideas and thoughts abound,<BR/>in circles, spinning, a cacophony of notes a round,<BR/>swatting cobwebs revealing mysteries,<BR/>into the light where,<BR/>even the “White Glove” can not separate --<BR/>The dirt from the dream. <BR/><BR/><BR/> Jannat Bey<BR/> January 9, 2006Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com