tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105881779184013417.post5203342354320024801..comments2022-04-02T23:43:16.026+01:00Comments on Star Steeds and Other Dreams: BEHOLD THE THUNDER HORSEDr Karl Shukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06222845702628862829noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105881779184013417.post-46166255685000746432014-02-23T15:02:23.379+00:002014-02-23T15:02:23.379+00:00I was about 20 years old when I wrote this poem, a...I was about 20 years old when I wrote this poem, and it was like a kind of stream of consciousness, letting the passion and dramatic visual imagery of the subject just pour forth in the words that came into my mind. And yes, who knows? Had my poems been published way back then and had been successful, it is quite possible that I would never have turned to science writing but would have continued along the pathway of my poetry, as that had begun before my science writing.Dr Karl Shukerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222845702628862829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105881779184013417.post-784334135087351782013-10-30T19:49:04.780+00:002013-10-30T19:49:04.780+00:00This's a weird one for me Karl because as I st...This's a weird one for me Karl because as I started to read it I found meself distracted by a few quaint archaicisms in there which kind of set me off try'n'o recall various Lakeland Poet stuff it was reminiscent of and even a few of the more draggy lines of some old fashioned Homer translations.<br /><br />By the second certainly the third verse though I kind of got sucked into the mounting electrically charged tsunamic exhiliration you yourself seemed to be gettin' out of unleashing your language.<br /><br />There were a few dips in there possibly by design as you allowed your sensible more cerebral scientific side of yourself to impede or stutter the flow of your less rational more visceral wild side.<br /><br />But by the time I read it through a second time and this's the part I found weird these glitches seemed far less pronounced as if maybe I was gettin' more of the hang of y'u' own inner artistic rhythm an' sense of where you're comin' from or/and goin' with this.<br /><br />Put it this way if y'had t'choose between bein' either a commercially successful science writer or a commercially successful poet I suspect there'd be a tweaky bit of a tussle.alanborkyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15333017272673090593noreply@blogger.com