[stylist] Desert Ghost attached here

[Lynda Lambert]

Eve, I have read this several times, over a couple of days now and I just 
love it.  You know how I love a good Sestina! When it is GOOD, it is so 
moving.  I love to read a Sestina aloud to get the effect of it's flow from 
one place to the next, effortlessly.

this work  leaves me with such a feeling of  suspension - like I am there, 
waiting in the darkness of the night, watching, breathing,  and listening 
for "something."  It just feels RIGHT to me, to be standing here in this 
place.

There is an overall color to this poem - grey.  I associated grey with the 
Netherworld - a place where there is a repetition of movements over an 
eternal and non-linear sense of time.  Timelessness and stillness, though 
there is movement in the sky overhead, and on the earth where we stand. And, 
yet, I have the sense of being under the earth and looking around in the 
place where I stand, too.  In this place things are shifting and moving, 
quietly, and yet, nothing has changed at all.  This space is larger than 
North, South, East, and West - beyond boundaries that hold us here.

There is a feeling of being part of the natural world - an animal or a night 
flying bird. Something that is hunting for prey in the darkness. Danger 
lurking in the shadows. I feel a nervousness yet I am excited and delighted 
to SEE this nocturnal performance.

And, the eyes that are looking! They are all-seeing eyes.

Just the sense of "ghost" makes us know that there is a merging of spirit 
and matter.  The suprnatural has merged with the natural order of things in 
this poem.

I am sure there is more, if I go back to that place again and have another 
look. For now, this is what I have seen in your poem. Very well done!

Lynda who is busy pricing things for the Christmas Markets for the new 
couple of days - wishing I could write, but knowing I cannot - yet.


Lynda Lambert






----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eve Sanchez" <3rdeyeonly at gmail.com>
To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 4:00 PM
Subject: [stylist] Desert Ghost attached here


> For those who know not what this is, I was asked to attach a poem I
> recently posted. Whether you like it or not, it brought up some great
> conversation. Here it is in attachment form. Enjoy. Eve
>


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