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Times Like This

At times like this-- (the petting of moonlight) (awakens in me a deeper stillness) reaching for a treasured formless place I recall guiltless floating-- relieved of all sharp corners (my reason for retreat) seaside I enter a radiant eye... (translucent wave with center washes over me a safe wade from the splattered shore) fresh with renewed buoyancy I reclaim a fluid nest....

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Phillip Garcia

Date: 8/16/2016 9:12:00 AM

That's beautiful. Deep - I'm not claiming to know exactly what it represents but the feeling from it is tingling. Which I love. Well done

Joe Dimino
Date: 8/20/2016 6:56:00 PM

Joe DiMino Date: 8/17/2016 8:07:00 AM Block poet from commenting on your poetry Your comment made my day, Phillip; though he or she may think so, no writer knows entirely what is being said (as for truth--a figment of intellectual imagination); but, to create a tingle in the reader (a living word...)--ah! That is nearer Divine.

Joe Dimino
Date: 8/17/2016 8:07:00 AM

Your comment made my day, Phillip; though he or she may think so, no writer knows entirely what is being said (as for truth--a figment of intellectual imagination); but, to create a tingle in the reader (a living word...)--ah! That is nearer Divine.