Comments on: Star Dust http://www.spinozablue.com/2009/08/2828/ An Eclectic Journal of the Arts Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:16:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Alberto Betancourt http://www.spinozablue.com/2009/08/2828/#comment-571 Alberto Betancourt Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:13:20 +0000 http://www.spinozablue.com/?p=2828#comment-571 Hypnotizing read that leaves you lost in space, although for a while, before you are brought back home! The poem alone is pretty effective imagery at its best. The narrator’s voice is successful, showing Velma’s storytelling skills; the reader sees the spacecraft clearly as he/she travels back in time into vertiginous space to an earlier unknown primitive period of ages untold; long ago before life on earth began, there was a strange life-birthing thing so infinitesimally small in the universe that humans today cannot even comprehend or identify with its substance and form, this uncanny element, as the poet puts it, is the source of life. Now we know the origin of our existence: flying dust motes of antiquity, or as the poet states, a thought in God’s creative mind. Philosophers, neuroscientists, and artists need not search for our true purpose anymore; for we come from dust and to dust we shall return. Great poetry! The concept is part science, part belief, reflective of what God thinks and does with life. Like the dust motes, we too are conceived from one divine ingenious creator that bears witness to our astral reality, and I imagine that such work of art is a gift one must value and share always. Keep the fine writing Velma!
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]]> By: Cliff Schuman http://www.spinozablue.com/2009/08/2828/#comment-566 Cliff Schuman Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:42:01 +0000 http://www.spinozablue.com/?p=2828#comment-566 thanks for a "cosmic" read!! really took my into space and back to earth, with the feeling of the preciousness and the awe of LIFE! Thank you so much for your sensitivity. Cliff<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('566','Cliff Schuman'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('566','Cliff Schuman','thanks for a \"cosmic\" read!! really took my into space and back to earth, with the feeling of the preciousness and the awe of LIFE! Thank you so much for your sensitivity. Cliff'); return false;">Quote</a></div> thanks for a “cosmic” read!! really took my into space and back to earth, with the feeling of the preciousness and the awe of LIFE! Thank you so much for your sensitivity. Cliff
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]]> By: Hector Octavio Andrade http://www.spinozablue.com/2009/08/2828/#comment-561 Hector Octavio Andrade Sat, 26 Sep 2009 05:49:18 +0000 http://www.spinozablue.com/?p=2828#comment-561 Velma, Congratulations!! Your thoughtful and beautiful poem took us out of this world into a journey of the Universe. There you made us meditate on simple things such as ageless particles and profound thoughts such as "when life was but a thought in the mind of God" You poetically presented the beautiful contrast of creation!! Thank you!<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('561','Hector Octavio Andrade'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('561','Hector Octavio Andrade','Velma, Congratulations!!\r\nYour thoughtful and beautiful poem took us out of this world into a journey of the Universe. \r\n\r\nThere you made us meditate on simple things such as ageless particles and profound thoughts such as \"when life was but a thought in the mind of God\" \r\n\r\nYou poetically presented the beautiful contrast of creation!!\r\n\r\nThank you!'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Velma, Congratulations!!
Your thoughtful and beautiful poem took us out of this world into a journey of the Universe.

There you made us meditate on simple things such as ageless particles and profound thoughts such as “when life was but a thought in the mind of God”

You poetically presented the beautiful contrast of creation!!

Thank you!

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]]> By: CAtherine Skopic http://www.spinozablue.com/2009/08/2828/#comment-560 CAtherine Skopic Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:22:14 +0000 http://www.spinozablue.com/?p=2828#comment-560 WOW! Velma Jean - you have done a good thing! Your poem takes me/us back from that place in the universe light years away yet so close within each of us as to be us! I love your words, the journey, the awareness you engender and raise, the thought, the Connectedness amongst us all and through all Creation! "When life was yet a thought in the mind of God" - how profound - your beautiful words! How grateful I am for your perceptions! THANK YOU! And the opening lines from the entrance hymn at the Cathedral: "My Lord, what a morning: the Second Sunday after Epiphany, January 15 (my birthday), 2006<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('560','CAtherine Skopic'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('560','CAtherine Skopic','WOW! Velma Jean - you have done a good thing!\r\nYour poem takes me\/us back\r\nfrom that place in the universe light years away\r\nyet so close within each of us as to be us!\r\n\r\nI love your words, the journey, the awareness\r\nyou engender and raise, the thought, the\r\nConnectedness amongst us all and through all Creation!\r\n\r\n\"When life was yet a thought in the mind of God\" -\r\nhow profound - your beautiful words!\r\nHow grateful I am for your perceptions!\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU!\r\n\r\nAnd the opening lines from the entrance hymn at\r\nthe Cathedral:\r\n\"My Lord, what a morning:\r\nthe Second Sunday after Epiphany,\r\nJanuary 15 (my birthday), 2006'); return false;">Quote</a></div> WOW! Velma Jean — you have done a good thing!
Your poem takes me/us back
from that place in the universe light years away
yet so close within each of us as to be us!

I love your words, the journey, the awareness
you engender and raise, the thought, the
Connectedness amongst us all and through all Creation!

“When life was yet a thought in the mind of God” -
how profound — your beautiful words!
How grateful I am for your perceptions!

THANK YOU!

And the opening lines from the entrance hymn at
the Cathedral:
“My Lord, what a morning:
the Second Sunday after Epiphany,
January 15 (my birthday), 2006

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]]> By: Robert Mueller http://www.spinozablue.com/2009/08/2828/#comment-554 Robert Mueller Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:59:29 +0000 http://www.spinozablue.com/?p=2828#comment-554 I agree that the poem is beautiful, as in the setting forth, securely.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('554','Robert Mueller'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('554','Robert Mueller','I agree that the poem is beautiful, as in the setting forth, securely.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I agree that the poem is beautiful, as in the setting forth, securely.
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]]> By: John J. Trause http://www.spinozablue.com/2009/08/2828/#comment-551 John J. Trause Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:55:18 +0000 http://www.spinozablue.com/?p=2828#comment-551 I had the pleasure of first reading this poem "The Gift" when it had just been written not long before. It is as beautiful and timeless now as it was then, and what moves me most now is its gentleness and forcefulness combined in one place. The poem expresses awe in the grand and in the minuscule simultaneously, and this is a strength. Kudos to Velma Jean Reeb.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('551','John J. Trause'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('551','John J. Trause','I had the pleasure of first reading this poem \"The Gift\" when it had just been written not long before. It is as beautiful and timeless now as it was then, and what moves me most now is its gentleness and forcefulness combined in one place. The poem expresses awe in the grand and in the minuscule simultaneously, and this is a strength. Kudos to Velma Jean Reeb.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I had the pleasure of first reading this poem “The Gift” when it had just been written not long before. It is as beautiful and timeless now as it was then, and what moves me most now is its gentleness and forcefulness combined in one place. The poem expresses awe in the grand and in the minuscule simultaneously, and this is a strength. Kudos to Velma Jean Reeb.
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]]> By: Bernice Baran http://www.spinozablue.com/2009/08/2828/#comment-550 Bernice Baran Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:33:23 +0000 http://www.spinozablue.com/?p=2828#comment-550 So imaginative -a beautifulpoem. I love the imagery.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('550','Bernice Baran'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('550','Bernice Baran','So imaginative -a beautifulpoem. I love the imagery.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> So imaginative –a beautifulpoem. I love the imagery.
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