I read this on Darkpoetry so this makes it the fourth time. I am not good with comments like Colin but I just felt this demands acknowledgment and due admiration. It was behind my eyelids, in my ears, trickling into my mind and it was definitely felt.

The tide, the body, the panting (was there panting? I heard panting) and the ascension was poetry. This is like a vivid dream/nightmare.

Oh wow. This was quite the ride. Insanely darkly joyful. Immensely enjoyable. Great great ending.

"i was surprised that door
slammed itself in nothing's
face."

I think this would make a great sudden ending but you the last stanza made it more complete than it already is. I will come back to this again and again.

Each line of yours always carry such weight. Your poems are the kind I never get tired of reading. Where are you, anyway? Disappeared, like I did?

Groovy juvy, you already know I'm a fan of yours I believe I have read this before because it sounds very familiar. Either that or you have penned a dream.

I just came back from a long holiday in a place where it's hilly and cold and quiet and I come back to read this, which sums up everything I have felt then, and everything I have failed to feel. I love this. Absolutely. Breath taking.

I'm sincerely truly overjoyed for both of you!

Okay I've just spent twenty minutes typing long speeches about how you've rekindled my childish hope for true love, and then deleting it again because of the heavy content of rambling about exes and soulmates.

So here I am on my fourth attempt. I don't know if this might sound unreal since I don't know you two personally except through poetry of course, but I really am very very happy for you.

(Suddenly that dead imaginary soulmate I fashioned in my mind came alive again! You moon-struck necromancers!)

It's obvious even to me that you two are perfection together so I guess what I'm trying to say is, CONGRATULATIONS!

It may not mean anything to you but you'll be in my prayers tonight I realise that in your culture that may mean something bad because according to a Brit friend, people pray to God only in desperate times. But here, it means a sincere and heartfelt gift. Like an intense wish for happiness!

Yay Col and Aimee!

Don't forget to post pictures!

--Nuri

Oh! The onomatopoeia made the poem yell in my mind! This is such a loud one and at the same time sublime. I enjoyed it ever so much. Just, brilliant.

"[OHWA,OHWA,OHHWAA,OHHHWAAAH]"

That's out of this world. I can feel it in my bones! The Voodoo man reminds me of a character in Robert E Howard's Valley of the Worm, who called upon the great white worm, Satha.

"Then began a thin demoniac piping, and up from the well pranced a hideous anthropomorphic figure dancing to the weird strains of a pipe it held in its monstrous hands."

I was terrified of him when I was younger. I keep imagining him dancing by the foot of my bed with that unholy piping followed by a "mad clamor of human screaming".

Your poem is like one of those stories my evil aunt Ida used to tell to frighten me into a night of insomnia so I wouldn't sleep over at my uncle's place anymore. At the same time, it's garish and beautiful in a perverse way.

This one made me smile a little. Maybe because I was brought up with elaborate prophecies of armageddon through the Qur'an and Hadith and to read such a cynical, simplistic view of it just made me smile a little.

It reminds me of the time a Hindu friend laughed at me good-naturedly when I said I believe there is only one God.

I'm not mocking, of course It's just very interesting, how vastly different the opinions/beliefs people have.

I liked this.

There seem to be several ways of reading this... I read this four times and each time, it was like looking into the eyes of someone who has seen something grand and dark and sad.

The first time, I read without paying any attention to the punctuation and the second time I did pause at the commas. The latter seemed to me like it posed a question while the former sputtered out a more enigmatic answer...

What a curious write...

And how slow of me not to realise you're Ness! As in saintedmad! You are, aren't you? Cos I'm pretty sure now that I've read all your Freaklings posts.

To think I got 50 points for saying blond girl looks like Bethany doing poo poo. *pats bad robot*
Thanks Aimee/Col.