Comments on: How to Be

By: ordinarylifelessordinary

ordinarylifelessordinary — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 20:30:31 +0000

Thank you Becky, really glad you could connect with this xx

By: Becky

Becky — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 20:10:02 +0000

Love that line — I don’t know how to be.
Me too.
Wonderful my friend.

By: hobgoblin2011

hobgoblin2011 — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 08:01:58 +0000

I like this a lot. Although together as one piece unbroken, I love how there are distinct stanzas within, easy to identify as you read it. really cool lines in here as well. I don’t know how to be–what a statement, perfectly apt for the poetic mindset and expanded upon through poetry. Great write. Thanks

By: wayside word garden

wayside word garden — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 07:16:18 +0000

Enjoyed this piece; the last two lines are thought-provoking.

By: henryclemmons

henryclemmons — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 05:26:52 +0000

I know of what you write. Very nice.

By: Dylan Quinnell

Dylan Quinnell — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 03:45:28 +0000

I enjoyed that Vanessa, especially the alliteration in the line “causes ripples through my ribs’

A real sense of emotion captured in the words, which is always good.

By: Gay Reiser Cannon

Gay Reiser Cannon — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 03:09:10 +0000

The mystery of “beingness” takes center stage. So fragile, like seeing a baby’s heart beat, its lungs move – knowing that life and its infinity dwells there within. This continues with mounting tension, the feeling of entrapment, the imagination clawing for release, the mind encouraging, the body trapping. I think this poem has great depth, and resilience. The shattered bits are just debris from the soul’s persistence to be free.

By: ManicDdaily

ManicDdaily — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 02:10:33 +0000

Containing my salt and earth is a lovely way to put it. K.

By: rosemary mint

rosemary mint — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:18:48 +0000

Excellent. Loved the whole thing. Know the feeling quite well.

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:47:03 +0000

“I am blown to tiny particles
the light a subtle diffusion
that reflects in shadow
my cast of other selves”

Is it through the glass and shattered, and then caged once the glass itself shatters? Then how can any one win? Tell your speaker not to be frightened–neither a mirror nor a fantasy is necessary. SImply say once again “I don’t know how to be,” make peace with the question, and live into the answer.