old growth

This has touched me case, left me with weepy eyes, which is no surprise. For me its about shedding what no longer fits.

It's quite possible that tears were shed by the poet during the writing process, so if tears were spilled when the poem was read, then the poets work is done... and you're quite right about shedding... in nature shedding is essential for growth.  Thanks heaps, Kate, for the tears and your wonderful support.

WOW - fantastic poem first of all - your rendition of this poem was perfection - it really added an eerie atmosphere old growth will fall so that new growth becomes possible  - excellent ink and easy RL add :-))))))))

New growth, huh... I reckon you're bloody onto something there.  Thanks heaps for the wow and easy RL, brother Macleod.

So f'ing haunting! Sent shivers. Oo, do I hear a Northern accent?

If I was any further north I'd be a Queenslander... I'm a Welshman from the new southern land. Thanks heaps for dropping in, mister trouble loves me.

We don’t often hear audio pieces from you stripped back, without any music or background noise... and I have to say, you should do more of them. Pacing, diction, clarity... top stuff 👌🏻

I had to listen to it through several times to really take it in. My thoughts are that you’re using the numbers as passing passages of time - age (first and foremost), chapters of events, even ‘people’ and this is where it gets interesting for me. The alternation of directions and the irrational order of those numbers shows this beautiful chaos. For me that shows the muddle of the writer even more so than the words themselves.  

... bit of a dark bastard, aintcha... lol

Thank you for sharing, and entering this into the comp. The competition is well and truly on.  

(Ps- literally all I could hear in my head when I heard you read this piece. Reminded me of it so much... https://youtu.be/rmCfyrhGWW4 )

The muddle you refer to... surely it is restrained, harnessed, and in some kind of order.  I think you once made a point that I may have a mild overdose of OCD... and yes, my core is as dark as they come.

Thanks heaps for sharing your thoughts and interpretation of the numbers and the reading list add.  Always stoked to receive the imperial nod from one of the queens of spoken word.

Thank you, Avalon, for sharing your thoughts and for the reading list add.  I'm so stoked to see you back too.

this old heart falls. almost like you're describing my past two weeks.

How could I not share a falling heart with a brother parallel world.  Thanks heaps, man, for dropping by and for the RL.

Good to see you back mister.  Your audios are always a treat and I agree with Missy on this one, regarding clarity, diction etc.  Fabtastic for sure.  :)  

Well, if a queen of spoken word says its fabtastic then it bloody must be!  Thank you, heaps and heaps for dropping in for a gander and for the RL add, dear dark angel.

Mr tongue, thank you for dropping by and for the RL add.  Hopefully inspiration overpowers whatever doubt you have in yourself to produce more of your own excellent spoken word.

had been in my list for a while, & i know i need to 'crack some diligently built in codes' in your this minimalistc piece of perfection, case. though you say what you say in lucidity, there's a beautifully artistically built in chaos as it unfolds..i feel you put in some real work in the brevity, structure, & sorta parallel narrative it seems...one that talks within the characters of a spatial maze across lifetime & its intimate bonded love , the other voicing directly on a reader ...both the voices converges so undifferentiated . JMHO perhaps. like an encircling dose, u put the talks & essence between those initial 3 liners & last 4 verses, that which creates a palindromic effect in literal sense...  
the numbers seems the turns in the maze or compass as well as the character's age defining years-months-days ..cleverly they coincide. whatsoever, the instropection & philosophy in derivation to me..is  that old growth's a/'the' fearless acceptance & conditioning in freedom & grace amidst all the vulnerabilities, brokenness.  
 
'precious minds' instantly reminds me of  'Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind' & Kundera's Unbearable lightness of being' for some reasons..thanks for this  
 
L17 to L20 seems the same voice & verses of a poet from his own earlier scribe if am not wrong..but as i feel, the core essence of a creator is the same felt in all his/her pieces in some way or the other  
 
amazing read...u need to be doing more such of this . again & again & ev..for us to learn & appreciate.  
 
 excuse my views/light if otherwise any. n ofcourse no construtive thoughts on such this mastered scribe  
 
much rgds,

I'm most intrigued and grateful for this wonderful train of thought from you, uma!  Very perceptive of you to recognise a particular voice infiltrating part of this poem.  I myself went back to the poem you refer to and checked I wasn't subconsciously plagiarising my own words.

Super stoked that you took the time to unleash your thoughts and thanks heaps for adding this piece to your reading list.

I like your break downs so organised but you have to be living in a vault, well soughted!