Comments for Haggard & Halloo Publications

Comment on boatpaper. by Quasimofo

Quasimofo — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:42:38 +0000

Use of colors in poetry and body parts personified usually turn me off but i really dig the way it was done in this poem. There is also a beauty of sound here that puts one into that ‘blow up the outside’ state of mind where we may see/feel more clearly life in its vexing obstacle course. Life and Human Nature…two different things or one and the same inseperable? ‘Boatpaper’ is good metaphor for our situation…chillingly accurate! “fog reflection, greenish was your father’s eye such is certain.”…that was my favorite line minced. And “the physical world humiliates. real people ignore themselves.”…a poet’s power of observation never fail to startle us into reflection. I look forward to the upcoming chap-book where I can enjoy this one again and hopefully at least a Baker’s Dozen!

Comment on Applesauce and Brown Sweater in the Morning by Halifax

Halifax — Sun, 11 May 2008 17:22:51 +0000

Nicole Kuwik was born in Cleveland and misses fireflies in the summer. She spends a lot of time with a fish named Mortimer, and believes flowers on the sides of highways should be given more consideration…or so says the bio given on FoliateOak.

Comment on Applesauce and Brown Sweater in the Morning by antelope1202

antelope1202 — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:48:10 +0000

Fine poem.
Who is this Nicole girl?

Comment on Till the Gardens of Machpelah by Halifax

Halifax — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:20:56 +0000

The three women you mentioned, Rebekah being Isaac’s wife, all endured an extended time period of being barren. All three are thought to have been buried at Machpelah by the families they eventually bore.

Religion, Christianity in particular, is an interest of mine. The Book of Thomas, as well as the Apocrypha, are included in my interest.

You have been busy. Get some rest.

Comment on Till the Gardens of Machpelah by Quasimofo

Quasimofo — Sat, 10 May 2008 13:51:18 +0000

I’ve been doing alright. Working 65 hours a week nightshift getting a little crazy from sleep deprivation that kind of thing…which has me ‘off center’ lately and have been, at times, a real dickweed in comments area. So that’s why i end with ‘i am a dumbass’…in case i write something offensive without intending to.

My research on gardens of machpelah indicates that this may be near garden of eden or outside cave of machpelah which is resting/burial place of Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac etc. who had fruitful lives bearing children…hence the title: “Till the gardens of Machpelah”? ..Just some curiosity there. And how did you come across Book of Thomas…which is Gnostic work not included in typical bible? I read something on early christian sect (Essenes?) which believed in reincarnation which i’m told was common belief during time of Jesus yet outlawed as a belief by Church in 7th century A.D. …all interesting stuff. take care.

Comment on Till the Gardens of Machpelah by Halifax

Halifax — Sat, 10 May 2008 12:41:07 +0000

I’ll need the contacts as likely I’ll be somewhere down on the 7th with all the other blasphemers. Using scripture like a DJ would use a Fifth-Dimension track is likely to earn me that.

I have been well. You?

You are not a dumbass. You reading of Galatians is more at what the writer intended I am sure. Thank you for your comments.

Comment on Till the Gardens of Machpelah by Quasimofo

Quasimofo — Sat, 10 May 2008 11:27:56 +0000

Hey man, how’s it been? I wrote a comment a couple days ago that accidently got erased when i clicked on the links. I think i initially started off by saying, “hey man, how’s it been?”. Then i said i liked the ’seeds’ in red and was too impressed by your making a poem out of scripture(s). My reading of Galatians 4:27 was a bit more on the positive side…like “yeah you may be barren but the relationships you cultivate indirectly from that experience will be 10 times as powerful”. Then i said, but you probably knew that and you were just doing a perspective piece. The invisible rhyming lines in-between gaps in the first part of poem are impressive…your material always shows a great deal of time/effort and thought. Anyway, nice read. I’ll have to look into that Sedoka and Kattauta form. By the way, if you can tell me how to single space on these submissions then i’ll put in a word in for you at the 5th ring. Yes, i am a dumbass.

Comment on Till the Gardens of Machpelah by Halifax

Halifax — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:47:24 +0000

Thank you. I am experimenting with the Sedoka form. The second halves, each a sort of mondo to the line before, is written in white text ( thank you to Jim Benz, with his Ode to John Cage).
The last stanza, prefaced by the first, answers the given bible verses as if the poem were a Katauta.
The red-letter “seeds” element refers to a fourth bible verse (unmentioned directly by the poem) Luke 8:11.

In the last line, I misspelled “then”. It should read “than”.

Comment on Applesauce and Brown Sweater in the Morning by misener

misener — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:35:56 +0000

Maybe you forget to take out the trash?

I like the feeling here more than the structure. But the feeling is pure, kinda sad. Nice job.

Comment on Bloody Barbie by Editor

Editor — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:29:16 +0000

Oddly enough, I’ve read a handful of poems very close to this over the years. All on the same subject, all of them submitted to H and H, but this is the first that I’ve ever posted. It’s the best one I’ve received on this very difficult subject.