tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10059313.post767773726013011760..comments2023-10-22T04:53:10.706-07:00Comments on LIVING THE WRITER'S LIFE: AH, ADONIS!Wynn Bextonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08606284153866696343noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10059313.post-66558587868393510172007-02-18T16:13:00.000-08:002007-02-18T16:13:00.000-08:00How many 'meadow' moments have you had? (hey, may...How many 'meadow' moments have you had? (hey, maybe we should start that as a new meme??)Wynn Bextonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08606284153866696343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10059313.post-74940984029490639682007-02-18T13:38:00.000-08:002007-02-18T13:38:00.000-08:00Hehe, since you've read through my Snippet Blog, y...Hehe, since you've read through my Snippet Blog, you know what meadow. *grin*<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the compliment re. the poem.Gabriele Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17205770868139083575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10059313.post-31398647152218997302007-02-18T11:02:00.000-08:002007-02-18T11:02:00.000-08:00Meadow? What meadow? (lol)Nice Artemis poem. Yo...Meadow? What meadow? (lol)<BR/><BR/>Nice Artemis poem. You write well.<BR/><BR/>AdrianAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10059313.post-46528367451753240752007-02-12T15:10:00.000-08:002007-02-12T15:10:00.000-08:00I wonder it it's telling something about my 'roman...I wonder it it's telling something about my 'romantic' life that one of the few poems I ever wrote is about <I>Artemis</I>. <BR/><BR/>Death is my arrow,<BR/>Death is my curse.<BR/><BR/>The silvan Huntress,<BR/>Walking unseen<BR/>The shade of the firs.<BR/><BR/>The sacred well<BR/>Has been defiled<BR/>By human desire.<BR/><BR/>Aktaion will die,<BR/>But still be alive.<BR/>A new tree has grown.<BR/><BR/>Death is my arrow,<BR/>Death is my curse.<BR/><BR/>The virgin Godess,<BR/>Walking alone,<BR/>To rest at the well.<BR/><BR/>I have problems with romance, in life and in writing, but I can definitely appreciate beauty in all its forms, the human included. I do have a collection of actor pics worth drooling over in my files. And we won't talk about two of my male characters and what they did in that meadow - though I should point Adrian to the scene. :)Gabriele Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17205770868139083575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10059313.post-8771647627227733192007-02-12T14:21:00.000-08:002007-02-12T14:21:00.000-08:00Sound like your romantic life is swinging Wynn. I...Sound like your romantic life is swinging Wynn. Inspiration and connection with others, not matter how brief is the essence of love. These men sound divine. Your romance, sounds to me like, is in the novels, and your love is in the words.<BR/><BR/>I woke up jaded and torn, after reading this I can smile, for the truth is, it is just point of view.<BR/><BR/>The Gibran quote is lovely.<BR/><BR/>Fussy sunflowerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10059313.post-18173102099226197512007-02-12T09:54:00.000-08:002007-02-12T09:54:00.000-08:00Beautiful thoughts, Adrian. Yes...I have met many ...Beautiful thoughts, Adrian. Yes...I have met many "Adonises". I tend to be attracted to the exotic which inspires me. "I can dream, can't I?" seems to be my motto now I'm older. Now I have men as friends, not lovers. Still, there are some 'romantic' moments in my life.<BR/>Here's something a friend just sent me:<BR/>It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and perservering courtship.<BR/>Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.<BR/>- Khalil GibranWynn Bextonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08606284153866696343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10059313.post-38028674426914981562007-02-12T07:00:00.000-08:002007-02-12T07:00:00.000-08:00Wynn, nice poem!I liked your take on Adonis. As a...Wynn, nice poem!<BR/><BR/>I liked your take on Adonis. As a gay man, I appreciate the Adonises of this world, too. As a fiction writer, I can imagine an Adonis for this world, and for each of many other worlds, too. They each have one thing in common: they inspire us.<BR/><BR/>Goethe, at the end of FAUST, says the "Eternal Feminine draws us on."<BR/><BR/>For me, it's the Eternal Masculine.<BR/><BR/>Whatever it is, we each have (hopefully) a romantic bone in our bodies and the ability to draw inspiration from beauty, whatever that might mean for each of us.<BR/><BR/>As writers, we seek that beauty, that inspiration, to savor it for ourselves, and to pass it along for our Readers to share and delight in.<BR/><BR/>A toast this week of Valentines, to the beauty that draws each of us on, to the hope that springs eternal.Adrian Swifthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03531355795873701197noreply@blogger.com