tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post7292597631788938537..comments2023-12-30T17:31:11.883+00:00Comments on The Solitary Walker: The Dust Of StarsThe Solitary Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-80430935783323390642011-10-24T16:40:38.836+01:002011-10-24T16:40:38.836+01:00Thanks for reading, Mermaid, and so glad my poem h...Thanks for reading, Mermaid, and so glad my poem helped you reignite the fire.The Solitary Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-25021715988265116122011-10-24T16:33:55.010+01:002011-10-24T16:33:55.010+01:00I have been away from blogger and came back to fin...I have been away from blogger and came back to find this, your poem. And wham! I cannot stop reading. Thanks for reopening the way.MermaidLillihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05439899054151056502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-6918465009833288902011-10-16T14:52:03.645+01:002011-10-16T14:52:03.645+01:00This is very good Robert. As others have said, th...This is very good Robert. As others have said, the expression of the opposites within us within the meter of a song is perfect. I'm tempted to say I will sing it when I am plodding the Ingles in a week. Unfortunately I'm walking with Meenakshi and the only choir I'm allowed in is the profoundly Deaf signing one, so I'd better keep it to my thoughts.<br /><br />Thanks for sharing this,<br /><br />AndyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-69925459273790039052011-10-16T12:43:34.612+01:002011-10-16T12:43:34.612+01:00Holy cow...I'm off the computer for a day and ...Holy cow...I'm off the computer for a day and things like this jewel arrive! Really lovely...and feel like taking snippets and posting them where I can read and enjoy/reflect. The raindrop and the ocean really hit me at the moment. Perfect reflection for a Sunday morning.ksamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01998231466478015431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-52465352845491082392011-10-16T12:23:27.717+01:002011-10-16T12:23:27.717+01:00Thanks for your comment on this poem, Friko.
Goat...Thanks for your comment on this poem, Friko.<br /><br />Goat - please eat a dictionary at once as penance... Goats do eat anything, don't they? Including all types of American fast food? (Recalling one of your past posts...)<br /><br />That is such a lovely comment, AB. I thank you for it. And I'm glad you are following along. I hadn't thought about the yin yang symbol, but I see that it's relevant.The Solitary Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-22690581045159622522011-10-16T10:05:44.399+01:002011-10-16T10:05:44.399+01:00This is such a beautiful poem - thank you. I felt...This is such a beautiful poem - thank you. I felt as if I was walking when I was reading it. I was also reminded of the yin yang symbol and walking that very fine line between the two. I have visited your blog for a while now and and love and appreciate the several journeys you have taken me on, especially the poetic ones. Thank you so much for the Solitary Walker.Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17701656819139982634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-64054870161645015622011-10-15T23:45:42.258+01:002011-10-15T23:45:42.258+01:00I do of course mean 'PRE-ceded'. I'm s...I do of course mean 'PRE-ceded'. I'm so ashamed...Goathttp://thegoatthatwrote.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-1133370007376176282011-10-15T21:31:15.012+01:002011-10-15T21:31:15.012+01:00This poem impresses me as something heartfelt. You...This poem impresses me as something heartfelt. You could indeed sing it on your pilgrimages.Frikohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04277167831642088694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-47245588256814601592011-10-15T21:13:30.805+01:002011-10-15T21:13:30.805+01:00Thanks, Dominic, for your fascinating comments...
...Thanks, Dominic, for your fascinating comments...<br /><br />Goat - Imagining the past, and the people who have walked before us - essential for an authentic and profound walking experience...<br /><br />And Ruth - such kind and generous comments about my poem, and so intuitively sympathetic. I do thank you for them from the bottom of my heart. You hit on what I was wanting to achieve - I can say little more. Thanks for latching on immediately to the meaning of this poem, and understanding why I said what I wanted to say in the particular style I chose.The Solitary Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-38060973212065497042011-10-15T09:45:51.746+01:002011-10-15T09:45:51.746+01:00Robert, if this is what the camino tells you, then...Robert, if this is what the camino tells you, then sign me up this moment.<br /><br />What a tremendous poem. I want to hang it up on my coat rack so I can touch it every morning.<br /><br />The lyrical lilt of its rhyme and meter is a perfect home for the litany of opposing forces that we are. You have perfectly (more than perfectly, I think, something more than that) captured the truth I have come to understand, at least in my head (maybe a camino would help me understand it with my body), that whenever one thing happens, its opposite is likely to follow, and must be accepted and embraced in the whole. The other thing it brings to mind is what I also believe, that we are capable of everything, good and evil, and this is a humbling belief.<br /><br />I truly love this poem and the only bad thing I’ll say is that I wish I had written it. Is that bad? Oh, and I will never forget the first time I saw stardust at 7,000 feet. Yes, we are that.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-46628853149199949462011-10-15T00:56:34.269+01:002011-10-15T00:56:34.269+01:00Very nice. I do enjoy walking ancient paths, imagi...Very nice. I do enjoy walking ancient paths, imagining the thousands of footsteps that have proceeded my own.GOAThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16992077370209677842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-82069410687665860882011-10-14T16:49:23.488+01:002011-10-14T16:49:23.488+01:00Regarding stardust, I heard someone saying -Brian ...Regarding stardust, I heard someone saying -Brian Cox probably- that the only place in the universe where gold can ever be made is in supernova explosions. All the gold in the universe has been made that way. A great Romantic-Scientific thought, that. The ring on my finger began life in a huger than huge explosion.Dominic Rivronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02618013365521035400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-39730634951262795492011-10-14T16:45:15.359+01:002011-10-14T16:45:15.359+01:00Shades of the Carmina Gadelica, with a contemporar...Shades of the Carmina Gadelica, with a contemporary, cosmological twist.<br /><br />I always imagined medieval pilgrims singing profane, racy songs in Latin. :)Dominic Rivronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02618013365521035400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-79277158960300839202011-10-14T15:17:14.154+01:002011-10-14T15:17:14.154+01:00Thanks so much, Gerry, for following this very spe...Thanks so much, Gerry, for following this very special Camino of mine.<br /><br />And George, I am so, so, so, so pleased.The Solitary Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-28140822330123857042011-10-14T15:11:10.570+01:002011-10-14T15:11:10.570+01:00Beautiful and stirring, Robert. I'm going to ...Beautiful and stirring, Robert. I'm going to make a copy of your poem and take it with me on my walk to Santiago next year. While I have yet to take a single physical step beyond St. Jean Pied de Port, the camino has already taken hold of me. With every book I read on the subject, I have myriad new questions, not only about the camino, but about life itself. Perhaps it has already begun . . .Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03959953035812596907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-89849954582181761672011-10-14T15:09:08.322+01:002011-10-14T15:09:08.322+01:00Brilliant...my grand daughter loves to tell me tha...Brilliant...my grand daughter loves to tell me that we arte made of stardust! Hope that your pilgrimage is going well.Gerry Snapehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07269492251928362799noreply@blogger.com