Dear readers, you will have seen my video post of reading these poems at a witches celebration of Samhain. If not go watch me struggle through reading two poems I just finished the day of the event. Hearing a poem and seeing a poem are two very different experiences. When a poems is read it is interpreted by the readers view of the story held in each line and stanza. They make it their own. Which is why we are so drawn to certain voices reading poetry. Helena Bonham Carter and Stephen Fry are wonderful examples of people that give a sensorial life to anything they read.
When we read a writer or poets work it is an altogether different experience. The intention of the writer drives our experience in the ways in which they create flow and suspense with commas and fullstops. I also find it easier to dive into the true meaning behind writing, and poetry specifically, when I can explore their word choices in my own time (I am one of those people who watches everything with subtitles). With these two poems I feel that I gave most of my heart into the rhythms leading to a word that stands for histories and memories in its own right. And this is something you can only capture in writing and reading.
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