re:Virals 546
Uma Padmanabhan - loosening the strings: commentaries on " puppet theater/someone calls me by/my childhood nickname" by Cezar Ciobica
Uma Padmanabhan - loosening the strings: commentaries on " puppet theater/someone calls me by/my childhood nickname" by Cezar Ciobica
Dan Campbell—wisdom without ceremony, with a smile: commentaries on "Show me the sutra / In which the Buddha praises / The colors of beer." by Barry Foy
Ashoka Weerakkody —haunting us in cyberspace: commentaries on "the box to check / that I'm not a robot— / winter rain by Cherie Hunter Day
Shalini Pattabiraman and language games: commentaries on "her child answers / in the nanny's tongue / end of summer" by Roland Packer
Ashoka Weerakkody—that unfulfilled desire: commentaries on "sailboats / or just seagulls / far away" by Mirela Brailean
Sean Murphy—the tone of the piece: commentaries on "a bit of Mozart / among beeps and buzzes / of the MRI" by Tim Dwyer
Scott Mason—a reader's poem: commentaries on "turning down the sheets — / outside Perseids fall / without a sound" by kei andersen
Dan Campbell—if we truly listened: commentaries on "garden party / between conversations / dusk chorus" by Tuyet Van Do.
Ashoka Weerakkody is tangentially mesmerized by "he plays the piano / before and after / I say yes..." by Sharon Ferrante
Linda Ludwig—the senses that bring enjoyment: commentaries on "gardener's gloves / soaked with robin song / and sage" by Marilyn Ashbaugh
Dan Campbell—alive and dead, seen and unseen, always on the edge...commentaries on "autumn dusk Schrödinger's cat on the fence" by Colleen M. Farrelly
Jo McInerney—obeisance to the whale: commentaries on "midsummer— / the boat tips / toward the whale" by Johnette Downing
Sandip Chauhan — isolation, and the search for connection: commentaries on two verses by the late Deborah P. Kolodji.
Melissa Dennison—moonlight does not exist behind barriers: commentaries on "deep night window light lonelier than moonlight" by John Zheng
Amoolya Kamalnath--poverty in plenitude: commentaries on "without a bed.../a river wanders/city streets" by Marilyn Ashbaugh
Maurice Nevile—a mantra for walking the beach: commentaries on "beach walk/billions of years/between our toes" by Carly Siegel Thorp
Alan Harvey—death jars the senses, the emotions: commentaries on "the mother my summer died" by Susan Antolin
Vidya Premkumar—the power of poetic brevity: commentaries on "empty bird’s nest the span of a pianist’s hand" by Richard Tindall
Joshua Gage—tapping into a long poetic history: commentaries on "rainy day -/only one umbrella stops/by the forsythia" by Tomislav Maretic
Amoolya Kamalnath —metaphors in the sea and boats: commentaries on two poems, by Chen Xiaoou and by Jonathan Moskaluk