tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7170945.post4451189187729228248..comments2024-02-24T06:02:13.386-05:00Comments on <center>Rubies in Crystal</center>: Gulf Oil SlickBrenda Clewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01400505552810078505noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7170945.post-29585790235516109692010-06-30T14:24:35.641-04:002010-06-30T14:24:35.641-04:00[from ning site]
Comment by Brenda Clews on May 2...[from ning site]<br /><br />Comment by Brenda Clews on May 23, 2010 at 10:47pm<br /><br />Thanks, John... wasn't really 'a project' and certainly not reflecting the horrors that have ensued from the time I wrote this... this little post seems tame now, too tame... :) xoxoxxoo<br /><br /> Comment by John F Walter on May 23, 2010 at 5:39pm<br /><br />The painting sets up a powerful mood of tension which the poem releases in a rhetorical worthy of Rachel Carson. I like the symmetry you've attained between aesthetic form and emotional polemic here, Brenda! Impassioned and yet balanced.Brenda Clewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01400505552810078505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7170945.post-88797082748491924722010-05-04T00:15:15.241-04:002010-05-04T00:15:15.241-04:00Stirling, I love the image you use to describe the...Stirling, I love the image you use to describe the sun. Yes, in this barren seascape, the sun is a lone figure...Brenda Clewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01400505552810078505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7170945.post-17684824577983444422010-05-02T14:19:29.900-04:002010-05-02T14:19:29.900-04:00Excellent work, Brenda, and especially perhaps the...Excellent work, Brenda, and especially perhaps the use of the sludge-like acrylic paint. So appropriate. The sun is like a compassionate figure too far away to intervene.Stirling Davenporthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07974286252135492445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7170945.post-67099583399650171852010-05-01T19:19:03.446-04:002010-05-01T19:19:03.446-04:00Thank you, my dear... the disaster is unfolding wi...Thank you, my dear... the disaster is unfolding with ever-increasing proportions, the slick tripled in size since yesterday, the coral reefs, the delicate marshes, let alone the fish and the wildlife. If we said no to oil-based products, it would not be commercially feasible to mine oil fields under the ocean. Oh!<br /><br />So much to be truly depressed about. :-(Brenda Clewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01400505552810078505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7170945.post-49601230895807381322010-05-01T19:06:28.407-04:002010-05-01T19:06:28.407-04:00i love this, brenda, through and through. i like &...i love this, brenda, through and through. i like "didatic little poems". :>>)))Laura Tattoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05503853041054419287noreply@blogger.com