I somehow missed that my poems “Earth Keeps Spinning” and “Awaiting Thunder, He Dreams” were published by Red River Review in August 2018. Thank you, Michelle Hartman, for taking these.
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Congratulations, Bob.
They are a fine matching pair. I could imagine “Awaiting Thunder, He Dreams” as a prologue to “Earth Keeps Spinning.”
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Thanks, Ken. I believe they came from the same impulse.
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Wonderful poems, Robert. The last line of “Awaiting Thunder” lingers.
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Thank you, Merril. I’m glad that line resonates!
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Both are excellent (as usual), Bob. I’d be hard-pressed to choose my favorite of the two, but “Awaiting Thunder, He Dreams” really shook me with how it can be so relatable to our country today, particularly this line: “When we give nothing we have nothing.” (Sidewise with that thought is that if we give hate, that’s pretty much all we have.) Last, I love that your poetry/this poem can be so very subtly political and lyrical, as well as philosophical and metaphysical, at the same time.
In “Earth Keeps Spinning,” I was struck by the diction, particularly “inkling” early on in the poem. Because you’d primed my mind for books and publishing themes, I read “inking” at first; again, I am captivated by how your work constantly surprises and defies any expectations–subconscious or otherwise–the reader might have.
So, bravo, once again, Bob!
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Thanks, as always, Leigh. Politics seems to creep in everywhere these days. Though they have different origins, at least in their genesis, both poems are born of the same impulse.
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And a deserved Pushcart nomination comes in, I see. Woo-hoo! We still have time to make 2018 something positive, as in the Year of the Poet (Robert Okaji)! Many congratulations.
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I don’t know how deserved it is, but I’ll take it! 🙂 It’s always such a surprise!
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The world is full of ghosts.
More congratulations! (K)
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It is indeed, Kerfe. Thank you.
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