The Black-Wit Reveller

Words will fall like leaves on a windy autumn day. It's a party.

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Audio at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4NqmOvVZXQ

Published in Strays. Available on Amazon.

Strays is a collection of two extended narratives and more than forty love-themed poems, exploring the meaning of romantic love while we have it and attempting to find the healing after its loss. Found within these pages is the short story Gutter Dog, the novelette Ginni, and the poems False Skin, the Boy Who Wore Clothes, and the Black-Wit Reveller.

Reviews

[Clara]

So lovely, and gosh! I love your voice!

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Clara:)

[Lyn Anderson]

I love the end to this musical piece. It just adds an unexpected punch.

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, KL. This is an older one that I wrote last fall but I thought Spring would be a good time for a reappearance.

[Einstein Noodle]

oh geez .. what a wonderment of suspicion you have placed on me ... i thought i could trust the spring and fall ... all four now in an eternal cycle of destruction of each other ... damn girl! this is one for the books ... so appreciate your creative edge and unique presentation of the seasons ... really good job says i ..
E.

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you E.

[L. Edward Neale]

Wow-wee what a clincher. That last paragraph just mesmerizing! Just one small grammar Nazi comment though. "An crespuscular."

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Lee. 'An' where did that come from?

[Sami Khalil]

"Nature stands upon the wreckage, naked, unabashed and demanding
of death, her beloved bearded Winter, way past last call
ice and snow; snow and ice ... to fill a forlorn and empty tumbler

They await out the night under a blanket of ivory, silent, bereft, and wondering
wrapped in an crepuscular, cold embrace, somehow still inviting"

Simply amazing...:).................

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Sami.

[Sami Khalil]

You are welcome muchly...:)..........................

[ANTO]

Captivating writing Pryde. I was surprised you made me feel sorry for MN but realised that the cycle is what it is - it must come to pass or its GAME OVER. The colour palette you painted was exquisite.
X

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, ANTO. I have a soft spot in my heart for MN too.

[TL Boehm]

I loved this. The party of the seasons. Bedding down with bearded winter to await the crocus. Lovely lovely lovely. I did one of these I think in 2009 but yours is so much livelier.

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, TL. With ones like these, they sort of take over. I glad you liked it. It is one of my favourites too.

[Tam Warink]

It's a date! I rather liked this one, Pryde. I think it was the richness of the vocabulary and the good use that it was put to. Well, that and the daffodil... I'm a sucker for daffodils.

[Pryde Foltz]

Daffodils let you look up their frilled skirts. Thank you, Tam.

[ANTO]

Daffadildoeswat???

[Pryde Foltz]

Dirty........

[p.kuhl]

Love love love the last stanza here especially, as well as the rest. I also really enjoy the couplet right before it. I would like to see a stronger conceit and a stronger presence of the speaker, but of course I am being picky. Nice write.

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, PKuhl.