Comments on: In the Mountains of the Lion https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/07/in-the-mountains-of-the-lion/ Purveyors of fine poetry since 2003. Fri, 28 Jul 2006 02:29:37 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dave https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/07/in-the-mountains-of-the-lion/#comment-1517 Fri, 28 Jul 2006 02:29:37 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/07/27/in-the-mountains-of-the-lion/#comment-1517 Thanks for the comments. FYI, this is set in Sierra Leone, and refers to the extreme brutality of the Revolutionary United Front forces under the late Foday Sankoh – picture Charles Manson with an army.

]]> By: MB https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/07/in-the-mountains-of-the-lion/#comment-1516 Fri, 28 Jul 2006 01:57:35 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/07/27/in-the-mountains-of-the-lion/#comment-1516 Painful.

]]> By: robin andrea https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/07/in-the-mountains-of-the-lion/#comment-1515 Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:21:08 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/07/27/in-the-mountains-of-the-lion/#comment-1515 Left with no way to touch, but a million ways to feel, and all of them painful. What a surprisingly stark and dark poem.

]]> By: Peter https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/07/in-the-mountains-of-the-lion/#comment-1514 Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:07:22 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/07/27/in-the-mountains-of-the-lion/#comment-1514 Handsomely worded, and a handsome look on the page. The first stanza is particularly striking and playful (an odd word, I know, considering the subject matter). It’s as if the choice to caress or to shove away depends on the antecedent to “his.”

I’m not sure what, if any, historical or current event the poem may be about, but I think I’m all right to enjoy the poem, even in my ignorance.

Yesterday’s poem was wonderful, too. You’re on a role with these masks! (Sorry…)

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