to be frank Im not quite sure what you are getting at Orph
Ive read this a few times and its very vague
however Im sure there is an important message here
and I thank you for this attempt

"Naked beauty, moral ethos...
blindness transcending self and false ego"

sounds elaborate but cant catch it
sorry!!!

I love wordy poems that go on but lose myself
of interest if its too vague
this is why I prefer to write short poetry myself

I like this poem as its describing a book I have
purchased from the store still wrapped up
and brand new A gift for my patience and work
elsewhere to myself

I remember the great poets
their egos and how people threw stones at their
glass houses.....How they would not have
climbed to be published
to pursue what they knew was good poetry

and no one is pure or unblemished
I love my poets with verve
that can write
that I can understand
its sweet when I can connect
with poetry
with feeling

Im not here to write technical novels
but raw Poetic works
by a poet (me)
for poets on a Poetry site

amazing isnt this how we (You and I both
poets can converse...I shall return to read
both your poems and comments later again)
Thank You

truth be told Im glad that Barry and you co operate on things
as Do my Bunni and I ......my writings are written with not much
plot line and usually are in the middle of this and that

Its got refrences to books maybe once in the poem
and Frames are glasses The cry of estatic hope
(Like wow! I hope its a good good Or Oh woe is
me I just paid twenty for a real stinker!!)

I could follow Wes principles of writing a poem with a start
a middle and an ending but that would be too easy for
Esker...Orgami did this at times and with long descripts
but I dropped into Esker a more contankerous and vague
poet... I congratulate Orph for putting in as much delving
on this Its pretty difficult.. Vespering was the voice that
mutters "Buy this book" "Read this book" like
Gollum with his "precious" I am still too excited about
it to even unwrap it!!!

Commerce I like Being able to sell onself and work is
important if one is to be published..I sold woodstoves
and was a chimney sweep for a time driving the company
one ton van about setting up stoves with a partner
installing chimney through roofs etc etc
meeting like just about every kind of customer in the
time I was there

Ego is good...the fire that gets the ball rolling and makes
us put the switch to on for the computer to boot up and
create Or roll paper into the t y pewriter of days of old
and sit like Stephen Kings character in the Shinning
waiting for inspiration

Competition....I was in competition with myself
a lot Orgami wrote a lot of int eresting works
that were word pretty But I like Esker pushing
the boundaries of his works till they are sometimes
unrecognizable How are we to know really if we
dont try...There is nothing wrong with making something
that everyone will understand and accept.....but what
am I out if it doesnt work?? Wait twenty four hours and
then create something again!!

I used to write poetry with a mate too
we had the typewriter and we would spend
our time throughout the day writing stories
and poetry arriving from shift work to see what
she had written...I miss that

Thank You!

Head in the oven
reposing in the auto in the garage
shotgun blast
pockets full of stones in a creek

how many died alone in life
poets who suffered the torment
of loves gone bad

alcoholic deaths like Gwen M a canadian
from the sixties whose last name
escapse me Or Dylan Thomas in New York
Jack K

sadness.....

I may still die but No I will not die alone