oopa loopa skoo baadie do

there is someone looking for you

tall, different, and insightful.

This was a long read, but worth it. Well done.

Ooooo...It has an epic feel to it. My only issue was my terrible grasp of foreign languages. What does "fur nichts mehr" mean?

Good work, and welcome!!

~Much Love~
Megan

An epic feel? thanks. Oh, and sorry about the foreign language. I should be more considerate about that.

fur nichts mehr -- for nothing more.

(fur should have an umlout over the u -- those two raised dots -- but oh well.

Thanks for reading my poem.

Please let me welcome and praise you, my new friend!

I am so happy to welcome you among us here in the name of us all. I am +Steven, the once and future Poet in Residence, driven away by a flamer with shadowy support in high places but returned more stubborn than ever. I welcome you. I know what you mean about umlauts; I don't have them on my keyboard, and I forget the code for them in a case like this, so I always just put in that clumsy extra "e," like "fuer." My German is all rusty, but I understood those words. You never need apologize for the use of foreign phrases; you did well to tell Megan what that one meant, and she learned. I know only a few words of French, for example, but once German was a huge, hulking edifice in my life, now reduced to twisted rubble. In my latest sonnet I used the phrase "um Mitternacht," because that is when my wife Silke and I always visit on the telephone: midnight where I am, nine in the morning where she is.

I apologize for not welcoming you before. Please do come and be part of our family. We have had darkness here, and we need voices of light, like yours, to cast it out, to keep it back from us in its cowardly shadows.

Be a part of us. Help us. We need you, and we thank you for coming, especially at such a dark time. If you have not seen the darkness, the cruelty, the crime, that is because it was deleted before it assaulted your eyes. If only that would have been the case before the death-threats to my wife, and the ad hominem libels to me! I have an excellent attorney, but the Internet is a slippery place.

In any case, my friend, I love your poem. Your narrative and descriptive abilities are prodigious and fascinating. I feel a sense of magical realism which I find refreshing and delightful in your words.

I am glad you are here. If you have a moment to consider some of my work, I would be honored indeed.

Welcome.

Peace.

I felt that I had stepped aside to a different world for a short time. The poem added some peace, serenity and gentleness to my life. More please.