Comments on: Rain https://www.vianegativa.us/2009/09/rain/ Purveyors of fine poetry since 2003. Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:28:14 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dave https://www.vianegativa.us/2009/09/rain/#comment-11921 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:28:14 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=5466#comment-11921 Thanks, all.

]]> By: lucas https://www.vianegativa.us/2009/09/rain/#comment-11920 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:05:56 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=5466#comment-11920 A love poem, and a very beautiful one too.

]]> By: Therese Broderick https://www.vianegativa.us/2009/09/rain/#comment-11919 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:59:31 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=5466#comment-11919 So lovely. A poem about facing the elements — both the outer weather and its coupled inner weather. Readers wonder: are the glasses wet from rain (outer weather), or from tears (inner weather)?

(P.S. I thought of the phrase “facing the elements” after reading DV’s most recent RWP poem.)

]]> By: beth https://www.vianegativa.us/2009/09/rain/#comment-11918 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:58:29 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=5466#comment-11918 Like Deb, I hardly know what to say about this very poignant poem – the second statement stops me dead in my urban, people-filled tracks, like some of Merton’s utterances out of his own solitude – and then you bring it all to such an equally-poignant conclusion, saying a great deal in very few words.

]]> By: leslee https://www.vianegativa.us/2009/09/rain/#comment-11917 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:08:55 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=5466#comment-11917 But a pretty amazing thing to have, all in all. And then the words to capture it, too.

]]> By: Deb https://www.vianegativa.us/2009/09/rain/#comment-11916 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:31:05 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=5466#comment-11916 No words, only a held breath.

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