All Comments on 'Salome'

It's a well-written poem and a riveting read. You're good! Hope you'll consider sharing some of your technique or just posting at the poetry forum.

Recommended in today's new poems reviews in the poetry feedback and discussion forum. Thanks for the read.

Angeline

Excellent doesn't even begin to describe this poem. I am just sitting here amazed, I can barely type.

One way or another I don't even know if the title actualy fits this poem. I am touched and somewhat depressed by the paralel narrative which goes on now one in the poem the silencing of the female spiritual voice in the name of a male revulution (both christianity and Judaism and later on Islam betrayed the women big time as they moved to more and more extreme forms of patriarchy and chovinism. The other is in places like Pakistan and Afganistan (not to mention Saudiaa Arabia and other 'enlightened' holding places for women. The former is particularly depressing, as there seems to be a counter liberation or anew subjucation of women -all in the name of God, not man, of course...