tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5766538007498037282.post7400327566960199009..comments2024-01-20T00:00:10.459-08:00Comments on Mudblood Catholic: Poetry: An AntithalamionGabriel Blanchardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17607504369762849930noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5766538007498037282.post-71381117076063320832014-03-07T14:46:20.408-08:002014-03-07T14:46:20.408-08:00This is too beautiful. I can't bear to read t...This is too beautiful. I can't bear to read the footnotes; I hope you don't mind. I just caught most of the allusions as they fell, and even for those I missed, I feel like it would ruin the "joke" to have it explained.<br /><br />This line really shook me: "Seen the ram tangled in the thicket only when my hands were drenched with scarlet."<br /><br />Wow.<br /><br />Sheilahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10853868724554947854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5766538007498037282.post-63507662136028992832014-02-16T10:36:56.937-08:002014-02-16T10:36:56.937-08:00Been lurking for a while, but this sent me flying ...Been lurking for a while, but this sent me flying to the comments box. John Donne! Metaphysical poetry! Footnotes twice as long as the text! *swoons for days*Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5766538007498037282.post-34845636149313069392014-02-14T19:26:29.379-08:002014-02-14T19:26:29.379-08:00Oh, no, the slow blogging was quite sincere. I'...Oh, no, the slow blogging was quite sincere. I've been working on this for several weeks.Gabriel Blanchardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17607504369762849930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5766538007498037282.post-60128180611517107082014-02-14T18:47:49.000-08:002014-02-14T18:47:49.000-08:00So that's what you've been up to during th...So that's what you've been up to during this alleged time of slow blogging. Good stuff - reminds me of T.S. Eliot and perhaps Hammarskjold. I will haveto spend some time pondering it.Gavinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5766538007498037282.post-15953358319300262842014-02-14T18:16:45.000-08:002014-02-14T18:16:45.000-08:00There are no comments because we are speechless. O...There are no comments because we are speechless. Or I am; will re-read with notations. Be in the body of Christ with me and others tonight. We journey together in the valley, he comforts us. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com