I submit most months to Visual Verse, and have had many poems published (thank you!). But some I like better than others. This month’s poem, “Night Journey”, is one of them. You can read it here.
My poem “passages”, written to Jo Zider’s artwork, is also up at The Ekphrastic Review. My thanks to guest editor Sandi Stromberg, and to Lorette C. Luzajic for her continued support. You can read it here.
I think the poems complement each other. Which only highlights how I return to the same themes again and again…
K. 
these are both so very lovely… and with you, Kerfe, I find that there is always
more after all
❤
David
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Aww…thanks David.
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Congratulations! Both of these are beautiful!!
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Thanks Muri.
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Oh, wow. I’m particularly in love with your “Night Journey” poem. Bravo!
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Thanks Alethea. I was pleased with that one.
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Congratulations, Kerfe! You’re right the poems do compliment each other.
I liked both images, but I just never got a chance to respond, so I’m glad you did. Lovely poems.
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Thanks Merril. They were good images. It’s hard to keep track of everything. And all the days blur into one another.
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You’re welcome. So true.
I ended up having various appointments and work assignments due. . .
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Lovely poems, Kerfe! Congrats!
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Thanks Charlotte.
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Well gosh. Both good poems. More than good. Especially “passages”, yes, me says Wow. Somehow feels in phrasing like a different animal than I’ve usually read of yours. Don’t know if that’s you or just me. But I like this creature – a lot. I think “leopard” while reading this poem. Why? Paws and muscles. Teeth.
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Thanks Neil. I’m not sure where that phrasing came from myself.
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And no, it’s not cause of the leopard image at top of post.
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Well done getting into both selections! I like the dream-like quality of the VV poem. The image is a gift for drifting off into dreamworld. The Ekphrastic poem follows the tangles of the tree limbs, across so many planes, I’m going to have to re-read several times before I catch up with it.
Maybe that’s the point—we never do.
I didn’t write anything for Ekphrastic and I don’t think I’ll do the totem pole image either.
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Thanks Jane. I think you’re right, we never do.
I was pleasantly surprised to find them both published this morning.
I’m not sure about the totem pole. I have a week to think about it.
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You can give yourself a big pat on the back 🙂
I think I’ll give the totem poles a miss.
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well-deserved recognition Kerfe- the night journey lures the reader into otherness with some wonderful words and hypnotic metre
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Thanks Laura. I was happy with that one.
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HI Kerfe, these are both wonderful, but Vincent’s Tree really captured my mind.
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Thanks Robbie. Sandi made a good selection of poems I thought.
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Yes 💓
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I do see them linked also. Congrats on both venues!
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Thanks Jade.
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Congratulations Kerfe! These poems do indeed complement one another.
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Thanks Ingrid. My themes do overlap over and over…
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Congratulations, Kerfe. Both so lovely. The ekphrastic one will require a second reading…so much to glean from your words.
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Thanks Punam. And congratulations on your publication as well!
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My pleasure and thank you.
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They really do complement each other, and I can see why the first one felt particularly satisfying. Pinning down the in-between is impossible but you managed to sneak up to it beautifully. And in the second poem, “or are we seeds waiting to be tossed into the void?” gave me a chill—but the good kind! I find I’m quite enamored of the thought of myself as a seed.
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Thanks Sun. I hope we are seeds. I think we are doing our best.
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