Comments on: elephant dream http://publicliterature.org/2008/09/25/elephant-dream/ Only the finest in online classics Fri, 11 May 2012 01:26:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Rick Belden http://publicliterature.org/2008/09/25/elephant-dream/#comment-321 Rick Belden Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:47:34 +0000 http://publicliterature.org/2008/09/25/elephant-dream/#comment-321 Thanks to all for reading and commenting. This life-changing dream helped me realize it was time to leave a job that was causing me horrible psychological and spiritual damage. I was afraid to quit, afraid to lose my income and security, but the dream showed me that I was going to hurt myself in deep and profound ways if I tried to stay. I listened. I left that job, saving my sanity and probably my life. Within a few days of leaving, I found myself writing poetry again for the first time in about fifteen years, beginning to create the set of poems that became my first book. And the first poem I wrote was this one. Thanks to all for reading and commenting. This life-changing dream helped me realize it was time to leave a job that was causing me horrible psychological and spiritual damage. I was afraid to quit, afraid to lose my income and security, but the dream showed me that I was going to hurt myself in deep and profound ways if I tried to stay.

I listened. I left that job, saving my sanity and probably my life. Within a few days of leaving, I found myself writing poetry again for the first time in about fifteen years, beginning to create the set of poems that became my first book. And the first poem I wrote was this one.

]]> By: Vijay Kumar http://publicliterature.org/2008/09/25/elephant-dream/#comment-320 Vijay Kumar Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:01:41 +0000 http://publicliterature.org/2008/09/25/elephant-dream/#comment-320 The poem speaks directly to you and yet never fails in conveying the anxieties and concerns. Loved reading it. The poem speaks directly to you and yet never fails in conveying the anxieties and concerns. Loved reading it.

]]> By: dawn_wilson http://publicliterature.org/2008/09/25/elephant-dream/#comment-319 dawn_wilson Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:34:56 +0000 http://publicliterature.org/2008/09/25/elephant-dream/#comment-319 From beginning to end, you have made me feel deep emotion...sadness, compassion, anxiety. You have written feelings from your heart, without being "sappy,"...often difficult to do...but you accomplished it so well! From beginning to end, you have made me feel deep emotion…sadness, compassion, anxiety. You have written feelings from your heart, without being “sappy,”…often difficult to do…but you accomplished it so well!

]]> By: Edwin M. Cordevilla http://publicliterature.org/2008/09/25/elephant-dream/#comment-318 Edwin M. Cordevilla Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:56:44 +0000 http://publicliterature.org/2008/09/25/elephant-dream/#comment-318 I observe the deliberate realism in the poem. Rick Belden is experimenting on a prosy way of writing poetry. It's almost prose, but it isn't. It has no embellishment, almost journalistic. No metaphors, just relating the subject as it is. This is something new to me. I admire original writers, and Belden is courageous for daring to be an original. I observe the deliberate realism in the poem. Rick Belden is experimenting on a prosy way of writing poetry. It’s almost prose, but it isn’t. It has no embellishment, almost journalistic. No metaphors, just relating the subject as it is. This is something new to me. I admire original writers, and Belden is courageous for daring to be an original.

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