All Comments on 'The Arid Plain'

simply lovely way of describing universal experience.

& the cycle goes on .....................5-ed.

I like the structure of this

I like the words (maybe because I plastered ghost riders in the threads)

but these three lines are primo:

As a fire clears a field of stubble,

So too will that wind make us clean.

Then back to living we will stumble,

I don't know that I have ever seen that kind of pain described as well, Clearday. Moving without being sentimental - even in the last stanza where it could have easily have gone that way. Strong, masculine, beautiful writing.

The whole piece speaks to me as a man resigned to his fate but acceptance has been made.

strong masculine writing, the I will soldier the fuck on.

Your final stanza is as good as anything I have read.

Thank you Trixa, Ashe, 1201 (I have absolutely no idea what the ghost riders on the threads are), Oldbear & Tod.

These verses were written a good many years ago with certain specific losses very much in mind. This was sort of rolling them together and seeing then what was there.