Just back from Boston, it calls up memories of my walks through the city. Powerful and eerie poem. It is as deep as the Charles River and as unpredictable. You feel her torment. Very well rendered.

What a stunning reading and presentation! The images of ruined doors, their hint of abandoned insane asylums. No feeling of, "Huh? What did that mean?" I comprehended, as if It were more accessible than ordinary language. An electrifying way to start the morning! Thank you.

Until this year, I was not a poetry reader at all, I always had difficulty understanding a lot of it. Then I got into Sexton and Plath by way of my interest in Morrissey , whom especially likes Anne Sexton and the life/death of Sylvia Plath over her work evidently. Then, I recently picked up Alix Strauss' compelling book on deaths of the famous called Death Becomes Them. Now I can't get enough of Sexton and Plath and can't believe what all I had been missing out on. Endlessly fascinating..

I walk in a yellow dress and a white pocketbook stuffed with cigarettes, enough pills, my wallet, my keys, and being twenty-eight, or is it forty-five? I walk. I walk. Breathtaking poem, so beautiful, so obscure, so..everything!! Feeling inside, in the deepths, her words. Anne is with no doubt my favourite poet ♡ Thank you for have made such a nice video, love the images too!! :)

@xyzllii

9 жыл бұрын

Yes...!

You did an amazing job with this poem. The imagery you chose was perfect and powerful. As I've told you before, I am not a huge fan of hearing people read poetry because so few do a good job (not saying I'm any expert, just that I dislike the insincerity, affectation, or cluelessness I often hear in their voices). You, on the other hand, are a true master. And this is a compliment I never give out unless I truly mean it. So, for what it's worth, you have it, wrapped and bowed.

One word: Masterpiece. What a masterpiece you shared with us. Thank you ever so much. I feel her pain, and I am ever so much more thankful that I find mercy, each and every time I seek it, (to borrow from Peter Gabriel,) "...in my Daddy's arms..." I can scarcely fathom the chasm that will be left in my world when he is gone, and my heart hurts for Anne's unbearable, immeasurable, and irreplaceable loss. I'm thankful for finding Mercy Street, and I grieve the fact that she never found it. Perhaps she would have lived to a ripe old age, had she found it. We'll never know, but we can be ever more thankful because of her eloquence that she committed to a page before she left us to find her Daddy.

A moving reading of the poem and great photos/video of Limerick that match the words brilliantly. (belated) Happy New Year!

This is bloody good

Many thanks, I will look into Emily Dickenson. She's another one that Morrissey has mentioned frequently and seems to admire.

Thank you very much for that nice comment.

RIP Anne. God have Mercy on your Soul.

First class. Terrific reading and show - well done! Hypnotic and arresting. 5*

Thank you, this has been added to our playlists...

Great visuals enhance a beautiful reading!

Love the verbal imagery and the imagery of the places, photos, streets and the city! Sending my happy thoughts through the looking-glass. ♡ ƙarolyn

Actually, I think I probably furnish this old house...almost everything, in fact.. with things made a hundred or more years ago...in order to maintain my connection with the past. The past is all long gone though, isn't it....as will I be, someday.

Thank you for the Beauty 🌿

@betsarama Thank you so much. What nicer way for me to start my day...than to read your comment !

brilliantly performed..there's a spoken word thing i'd love you to hear by john cale and loue reed...its on an album called'songs for drella.. a tribute to their mentor,andy warhol..there's a track called 'the dream' where john cale takes on the position of andy warhol in a dream..its at the end of his life,when life got lonely...i hope you get to hear it....i love this work of yours..its extremely good.

@nordicsky thanks so much for your lovely comment.

Oh my, of course I think we can all relate! I can't count the number of times in life where I struggled and always felt like I had the goal in mind but had a few short comings. Well done, I think your style definitely reflects the struggle that we go through in our day to day life. I could just close my eyes and listen to you as you are reading it and it is as though I know the exact steps you are going through. Thanks for sharing!!!

@jasperanklesighs Thanks for your comment..but I do not find anything large and sloppy in this poem. It is tight and intense in the extreme. And what is it going to attack? It is remorse poem. i have to suggest...you just might not have ' got it.' Maybe listen to the words...?

Thanks for the encouragement..and I will follow your suggestion...happy daze...!

Why tanx Mister...Limerick is a lovely city...look forward to a new video from you.

Thank you indeed Lioness..

Thank you for those very encouraging words. The poem is one of Anne's ...and she wrote many, great ones. Thanks again...

Thank you ID....!

DRC recently introduced me to the poetry of Anne Sexton and your wonderful read has caused my appreciation of her poetry to grow further. You have a splendid accent and it would be a treat to hear you read some Irish poetry. Life is good, Kind regards, Peter

The imagery was stunning and fitting!

yes WOW , THAT WAS GREAT, THANK YOU FOR SHARING , I SO ENJOY YOU ,FIRESTAR =^,,^=

Beautiful and gripping. Very well read with fitting images.

Thanks for your kind words.

Thank you very much for your lovely comments.

Peter Gabriel's song 'Mercy Street' was based on Anne Sexton's life.

@dadasopher thank you so much...yes I shot the footage...tho sometimes wonder if abstraction would be less distraction...

Dark-ish...but not empty I feel. Full of honest appraisal of a difficult life.. Anne Sexton achieved a huge amount despite her demons...Thanks for watching.

Well thank you very much Clay . Very nice of you to be so encouraging. I spent days doing this...did many readings...this is the best of a bad lot you might say. Yes , I filmed this mainly in Limerick . A lovely little city...thank you again...Anne is a great poet..

Thanks so much fro watching....and the comment...talk soon...I am back now..

Anne Sexton is powerful.

@alleiaegeria Thanks D. The Charles River !...I felt I got to know it whilst unravelling the meaning of this poem for myself....This footage is from Limerick.

Thanks Redlonghaired. Sweet.!

Thanks..Well...I often wonder what A.S. would have thought of my interpretation. For sure she would know it was heartfelt...other than that , I cannot say...She once said her husband disliked her 'poetry' voice...but that she thought everyone effected a 'voice' for poetry. This is mine..but I have to be careful not to become too stylised.

Wow... YOU really know how to deliver... I am working on memorizing my favorite Sexton poem for a video soon... I'll have to work hard to compete with THIS! 5* FAVED :)

Funnily enough Ida...camera work is my least fav part of doing this...I find that side of things quite tedious and I am impatient doing it...that's why there are jerks and shakes here and there. Thanks for watching.

Thanks for this poem... There's a bit of pain and anguish here... The torture of existence, if clearly seen, cannot be denied or argued away.

Well thanks so much Clay. That is very nice of you to say...I spent days doing this...did so may readings...this was the best of a bad lot...you might say...Yes I filmed it in Limerick mainly when I was there recently. Lovely little city.

Limerick in Ireland Clay.

@FatuousAnility Thank you very much for that...!

@DavidRandallCurtis Belated thanks...for some reason my previous comments did not stick....

This IS a perfect reading. If you read it again, you might produce another perfect reading with different emphases and lilts of the voice. You put pain and distance in your voice, which works with with this poem, as it would with so many of her poems. Did you shoot and edit the video footage yourself? It works well.

@Sectumsemprist Thank you for that S....appreciated !

@TheBoyracer63 That is brilliant..Have you tried Emily Dickenson ? She is very accessible but with a insightful crispness to her words..

@TheBoyracer63 Great ! says she 5 months later...lol..

love this

@xyzllii

8 жыл бұрын

+katia fedorova Thank you.

@xyzllii

8 жыл бұрын

+xyzllii Google+ keeps making me comment as xyzllii...grrr...but I am also poemsapenny each. Thanks again.

@katiadejavu92

8 жыл бұрын

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Thanks for your words...really appreciated.

I'll send you some photos of the Charles River, Beacon Hill and the back Bay later.

@marycigarettes did you get my thanks...hope so...it is below...I said thank you for the encouragement...!!

@lionessfirestar I did reply...saying thank you did you get it..hope so.

@Brazilady There are many ways to skin a cat !

Why can I not reach my poems a/c I wonder ? KZread ?

@Hellishcrusade That is how my poem Footsteps in the Past..ends...Trying to understand your remarks re the house...I supposes being nearly 400 can bring on a little dementia...! LOL...jus' kidding o Hellish one...jus kiddin' and not one bit grumpy !!

This is a fine reading and a powerful video. I wonder what Sexton would think of the mood you created? (Don't get me wrong- I'm a believer that the artist's "original intent" is not completely sacrosanct, so I love it, even if someone else argues she'd hate it.) But I mean that I really wonder what she;d think of it, just from curiosity... Anyway- great job- 5 *s!!!

Peter Gabriel did it justice

The filming is impressive. However did you do that? I love your voice.

@marycigarettes I keep posting a thank you to you and it disappears.....here is thank again...

Can you offer some more info, please.. like who made the video and who is reading. I enjoyed it.

@kristinebyrne9938

8 жыл бұрын

+sasquatchdaddy69 I made the video....Kristine Byrne.

@kristinebyrne9938

8 жыл бұрын

+sasquatchdaddy69 ps I am poemsapennyeach...tho' google+ is doing my head in with passwords etc. Can't even get into my own account. They have made me this....

@xyzllii

8 жыл бұрын

+sasquatchdaddy69 Me ...Kristine Byrne.... You can find me on twitter...Kristineb4...bit late in replying . Sorry.

@FatuousAnility Thank you very much for that...!