All Comments on 'Bone Words'

a chant or mantra.

something written on ancient paper

And it has an " oriental" scale and rhythm to it.

Fascinating subject and great minimal word usage.

Thank you

is mentioned in Tuesday's reviews.

Very nice. intense image. "Bone words."

I feel they may have been dilluted in their repetition.

You may have intended for the repetition of phrases and words (spoken, silk) for effect, but it was a little distracting for me. But you were probably going for that effect.

But I love this poem. Incredibly original, something to hang onto and come back to after the images die down in your mind. Beautiful

oral history handed down from generation to generation.

A religious feel to it. Wonderful. Thank you jd.

throughout the poem. It holds it together nicely and makes it really sing.

*no thermometer rating

up the principles of philosophy with buddhism in mind, but yet also leaves a mystical presence. that is what i pulled out of the piece. very nice jd

you know about this??

I do not object to the use of "bone" here, which a find to a bit of a poet's cliche.

I am sorry I missed this first time around

I humbly bow

Anything written of something secret or hidden

Has about it an almost mystical aura.

hold silence and secrets, TK U MLJ LV NV