Sheet of gray, a sheet of gray hangs above unbroken and featureless overshadows everything dark and bleak is the morning yet the dogwoods are blooming and beyond the blocked out sky the sun still rises and shines
Rocío (Ro) Christensen
@rocio · 0:15
I really like the line blocked out. Sky, that image works super well to kind of transmit that overcast. Yeah, I love that. It worked super well for me
It's. Hello. Happy National Poetry Month. That was beautiful. Everything that you say up until the last lines paints this more dark type and dark level of imagery, and then it just opens up with brightness at the end. And I think that that is absolutely beautiful. I love the way that it was worded and just I love everything that you did to bring the entire thing together. I mean, even in the title Sheets of Gray, you don't feel quite a brightness with that
From Silence
@FromSilence · 0:21
Thank you so much for saying that. It's meaningful to me that other people appreciated the choice of words and the poem itself. I sometimes just need to get things out. And this is one of those poems where it just it flowed at a particular moment. So knowing the fact that it does something for somebody else is very meaningful to me. And I want to make sure that you understood that. Thank you
From Silence
@FromSilence · 3:31
Happy National Poetry Month and thank you very much for your comment on my poem. So I don't want to burst your Bible. In fact, it makes me very happy that you took a positive spin from the poem, that you found it refreshing and uplifting. I like to touch souls. That's the reason I do this. I want to be able to make things that help others feel or cause them to feel something that's valuable
And I like the way that you experienced it and having better understood that now. And thank you for taking the time to talk to me about that. That is appreciated as well. I live for dialogue, especially about things like this. I think that's why the dialogue is so important, because a lot of the times I look at poetry as art, and in this art form, I mean, just like any other art, people interpret things in different ways and maybe unintentional, just like me
From Silence
@FromSilence · 2:49
But I use my poetry a large amount of the time to express things that I can't express openly. So I disguise it in language and it's even to the point in some cases where I have some poems written that actually have hidden messages in the text and the lines of the poems themselves are essentially there just to cover the hidden message. And a lot of the time it's worked out that it's also kind of ironic because the message being conveyed is the opposite