by zack_constantine
Who are you? I suspect you're someone who has submitted poems under another name, or you could be new to literotica. But rarely does this kind of talent just show up here. No matter. Your poetry is excellent, zack.
Absolute perfection. It was everything any poetry reader could want. Thank you.
This poem has been selected for listing in Wednesday's New Poems Review.<br>
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All are wonderful. Among them I loved in particular Sonnet II with the combined imagery of Mythology and Existentialism ("...The confluence of Styx and Lethe,/Is where I don’t want to yet want to go./
In this emptiness, this waste,/We call each other’s name/
In the Old Tongue, that ancient/ Language of imperative, of need,/ For that’s the one speech we both know."), Sonnet III with the wonderful imagery of the traveler in unchartered terrain and the most touching Sonnet V with the its "financial/economics" imagery which moved me most by its keen sense of the tangible which is necessarily also fleeting...