https://www.vianegativa.us/2011/07/happiness/ Purveyors of fine poetry since 2003. Thu, 07 Jul 2011 22:48:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.vianegativa.us/2011/07/happiness/#comment-17708 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 22:48:49 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=12563#comment-17708 Did another response to Luisa’s “Happiness”. Check it out.
http://ambitsgambit.blogspot.com/2011/07/happiness-graffiti.html
(:–P)

]]> https://www.vianegativa.us/2011/07/happiness/#comment-17707 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 22:41:10 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=12563#comment-17707 Interesting how your mind flitted on this one. You took the prompt with the idea of change and clarity and gold light on birch, and you stick fairly close for two stanzas. Then you flip it—silence being broken by sound making you notice something, rather than the reverse as in Dave’s lines. “Rueful” then leads to other images still in the same color range as the prompt, with melancholy change and decay—then with that little twist back to the gold of light and paradise. Like it!

]]> https://www.vianegativa.us/2011/07/happiness/#comment-17706 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:29:59 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=12563#comment-17706 Curious. Luisa and I responded to the same prompt in TMP. http://ambitsgambit.blogspot.com/2011/07/cold-morning-tea.html
I realise my kind of blue is weeping blue. Enjoy your blues, Dave.

]]> https://www.vianegativa.us/2011/07/happiness/#comment-17705 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 04:16:41 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=12563#comment-17705 This goes really well with the deepest of deep Delta Blues that I happen to be listening to at the moment (Son House, “Special Rider Blues,” 1941 Alan Lomax field recording). I’m honored to have sparked it.

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