Light & Dragonflies: Nature Poems/Love Poems - 10. At your feet

Many emotions at play in this, @AC Benus.  Beautiful, the evocations of happiness, a misty woods morning, of sorrows changing happiness; yet with a beauty of expressiveness.

I love that the primal woods host the poet’s joy, that Wild can split and stagger sorrow; and that stars whisper to him in the calm at the end. This is evocative and beautiful.

On 10/2/2023 at 8:30 AM, ReaderPaul said:

Many emotions at play in this, @AC Benus.  Beautiful, the evocations of happiness, a misty woods morning, of sorrows changing happiness; yet with a beauty of expressiveness.

Thank you, ReaderPaul. I like your turn of phrase with beauty of expressiveness. If a person ever thinks about Expressionistic poetry, and its many offshoots like Dadaism and Futurism, they may not associate 'beauty' with the movement at all. But, just as we can have bad dreams and nightmares, we can have happy (and even wet) dreams. Runge uniquely, as far as I've encountered, explores the beauty of such lovely dreams.

And as I mentioned in a previous entry -- in regards to the one I think of as the handjob poem -- the poem above is the one I think of as the blowjob poem

On 10/2/2023 at 9:39 AM, Parker Owens said:

I love that the primal woods host the poet’s joy, that Wild can split and stagger sorrow; and that stars whisper to him in the calm at the end. This is evocative and beautiful.

Thank you, Parker. Your comments here make me think about language, and how new turns of phrase are introduced. Our mother tongue is infused so beautifully (and spicily peppered too) with new words and ideas of analogy intro'd by Shakespeare. But here, Runge seems to suggest that we need to re-spice up our ways of thinking, and such phrases as you mentioned are as equally valuable as ones penned 400 years ago