Query

QUERY

 

For Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot

Who remain dead and indifferent

 

Why must this care

Which is ours only

Why must it live

In such careless places?

 

Our caresses

Under the constant threat

Of growing distance?

 

Why is it only given

These ragged clothes?

These obsolete credentials?

 

Moving through the windswept shelters

Tenants

Under the perpetual suspicion

 

Of the loveless

Landlords

 

24/2/2014

 

Reviews

[Gypsy Warrior Queen]

We were born in the images of bull s**t ....they are subliminal inkblots on physiological highs....they smoked crack and wrote notes .....they are fraudulent imposters.... charging us for survival and our time. Don't ask me and I won't tell you .....I just say what I say and squat where I feel need. I'm invested. Till next time.....

[Brittany Zedalis]

I think this is one of the best poems I have ever read on this site. Amazing!!

[K.N. Lorenzen]

Wow!! I am so overwhelmed and thankful, Brittany :) I am very flattered by your incredibly kind words!!

K.

[Coyote Poetry]

I loved the poem. Both Poets with be content with your statements in the poem. Thank you for sharing the excellent poetry.
Coyote

[K.N. Lorenzen]

My utmost gratitude. Thank you, Coyote :)

K.

[Dayran]

Quite wonderful ... KN ... looks like you stumbled into the poet's graveyard ... in your part of the world. Its an incredibly objective view of the experience of man ... viewed in relation to human passions ... and the inability to complete our sense of want with regard to it. I've no doubt that there's a simple reason for it ... but would depend on how we bring ourselves to view and express the phenomenon ... with no complaints ... and praises none. Nicely done.

[Inda]

This is fantastic, why is it all temporary right? Love the whole thing. Keep it up!

[Pryde Foltz]

Moving through the windswept shelters
Tenants
Under the perpetual suspicion

Of the loveless
Landlords

I blame biology, that drive to procreate, for the inconstancy of love. We are programmed a certain way to up our chances of leaving progeny. Perhaps, we can grow past our programming and find a lasting kind of love. God knows we are pretty adept at leaving progeny.

I was blown away by this write K.N., an abstract piece that leads the reader to understanding rather than veiling it. Hard to do and you did so brilliantly.

a 100 ragged tenants from me.

[K.N. Lorenzen]

I am deeply grateful and flattered by the big words, ascribed to my little poem :)
Thanks a lot, Pryde!! My utmost gratitude.

K.

[Lyn Anderson]

Cleverly constructed and well thought out. I like this a lot from its content to its font and form.

[icelandicblue]

Fabulous tribute you've created here. Your bleak imagery was, for me, quite inspiring:

Moving through the windswept shelters
Tenants
Under the perpetual suspicion

Of the loveless
Landlords

With so few words you bring them to the forefront of our consciousness.

[K.N. Lorenzen]

Thank you, Icelandicblue ! I am deeply honored by your kind words.
Sincerely

K.

[Daydreamer]

This piece is timeless, I could read it again and again, still pondering for answers this poem asks..

[K.N. Lorenzen]

Thanks a lot, Daydreamer !! If you only knew, how much it means to me :)

[Frieda P]

Great tribute pen'd here, you set my mind ablaze. Only thing that would have made it better was music. ha ;-) Seriously great stuff!

[K.N. Lorenzen]

Ha!! Thank you, Frieda. I will definitely consider it. What do you think, Mozart's Requiem ???
Do you think it will be suitable?? ;)

[Frieda P]

Ha perfect, for this one you need the greatest! ;-)

[K.N. Lorenzen]

Once again: Thank you, Frieda :) I really appreciate it!

[KeeD]

Three great poets, both Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot and then theres K.N Lorenzen for this was a thought provoking piece. You write about heavier times, modernist movement seemed like yesterday through this poetic cry. Amen to a poetic deliverance like yourself.

[K.N. Lorenzen]

Wow! Thanks for the overwhelmingly kind words!!
I am sincerely grateful :)

K.