tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2397499842210905447.post3717952468838730065..comments2024-03-25T17:47:19.508-07:00Comments on Black Ink Howl: The Violent BleakSusie Clevengerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09239990133754328967noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2397499842210905447.post-26938678506749593322017-12-05T10:20:05.905-08:002017-12-05T10:20:05.905-08:00great last line! May we all leave an echo that in...great last line! May we all leave an echo that inspires! Margarethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00007201357693227614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2397499842210905447.post-25507227102906019692017-12-03T13:59:50.749-08:002017-12-03T13:59:50.749-08:00Tom Petty is always a fine choice. I want you to k...Tom Petty is always a fine choice. I want you to know that I really, really appreciated your comment on mine. Nothing makes me as crazy as someone who won't say SOMETHING.Fireblossomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2397499842210905447.post-71549048968723959992017-12-03T12:03:16.157-08:002017-12-03T12:03:16.157-08:00superbsuperbgrapelinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14929030339206629628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2397499842210905447.post-69010509430334793382017-12-03T04:14:55.406-08:002017-12-03T04:14:55.406-08:00Thank you I have too much of my mother in me to no...Thank you I have too much of my mother in me to not fight against what assails us every day. Susie Clevengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09239990133754328967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2397499842210905447.post-14572547503420012012017-12-03T04:13:54.776-08:002017-12-03T04:13:54.776-08:00Thank you I am certainly feeling the struggle the...Thank you I am certainly feeling the struggle these days.Susie Clevengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09239990133754328967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2397499842210905447.post-20659231298888433152017-12-03T04:13:26.255-08:002017-12-03T04:13:26.255-08:00Thank you Anger has power, and it is necessary to ...Thank you Anger has power, and it is necessary to vent it constructively. Susie Clevengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09239990133754328967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2397499842210905447.post-28616225468255780272017-12-03T04:10:49.769-08:002017-12-03T04:10:49.769-08:00Thank you When I started this blog, I wanted a pla...Thank you When I started this blog, I wanted a place where I could get raw, get angry if needed, find my way through the jungle days we are living.Susie Clevengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09239990133754328967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2397499842210905447.post-40074677369991995502017-12-03T04:08:14.302-08:002017-12-03T04:08:14.302-08:00Thank you There are songs that are so much of our ...Thank you There are songs that are so much of our personal history that when we hear them they take us back to when they were the music track of our lives. Music is so powerful.Susie Clevengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09239990133754328967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2397499842210905447.post-56194099846310824562017-12-03T04:04:57.856-08:002017-12-03T04:04:57.856-08:00Thank youThank youSusie Clevengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09239990133754328967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2397499842210905447.post-35813745198422594852017-12-03T04:01:26.530-08:002017-12-03T04:01:26.530-08:00Thank you What a scary world we live in.Thank you What a scary world we live in.Susie Clevengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09239990133754328967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2397499842210905447.post-74233192590679837982017-12-03T04:00:53.835-08:002017-12-03T04:00:53.835-08:00Yes, music can make us stronger when everything ar...Yes, music can make us stronger when everything around us wants to tear us down.Susie Clevengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09239990133754328967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2397499842210905447.post-44662372492464119282017-12-03T03:59:52.198-08:002017-12-03T03:59:52.198-08:00Thank you.. I often go home to voices of those who...Thank you.. I often go home to voices of those who have left this world for the courage to live now.Susie Clevengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09239990133754328967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2397499842210905447.post-23628920188269275692017-12-03T03:57:17.198-08:002017-12-03T03:57:17.198-08:00Thank you.. It really hits when we lose such vital...Thank you.. It really hits when we lose such vital voices in these volcanic times we live in.Susie Clevengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09239990133754328967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2397499842210905447.post-42061120346661163062017-12-03T02:52:55.803-08:002017-12-03T02:52:55.803-08:00Quicksand is a raptor of a metaphor for the drowni...Quicksand is a raptor of a metaphor for the drowning sands of time -- or as you put it, the Violent Bleak of our times. But the fist remains raised -- we don't back down. Amen. - BrendanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2397499842210905447.post-82278491848680377342017-12-02T04:49:53.421-08:002017-12-02T04:49:53.421-08:00There is such wisdom and power in your closing lin...There is such wisdom and power in your closing line, Susie. It's beautiful and something to hold on to in times of struggle. Sanaa Rizvihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06681404650477409830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2397499842210905447.post-88251792309386619502017-12-02T02:18:33.836-08:002017-12-02T02:18:33.836-08:00I can hold your voice in the palm
of my hand, rais...I can hold your voice in the palm<br />of my hand, raise a fist in rebellion,<br />rally against hell’s gate, but<br />fear brings a loaded weapon.<br /><br />Even though one wants to react in anger, it takes a braver heart to be more restrained as shown here. Brilliant reaction Susie!<br /><br />Hankkaykualahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03240206222973305395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2397499842210905447.post-82214097155779722072017-12-02T00:54:17.117-08:002017-12-02T00:54:17.117-08:00There is something flinty and cutting about this p...There is something flinty and cutting about this poem, Susie, which made me sit up sharply and take notice on a dull winter morning when everything seems blurred. I love the opening line and the use of 'thug' as a verb, and the gestures in the second stanza. But I am disturbed by<br />'The Violent Bleak keep growing<br />an army of the demented'.<br />Chilling.Kim M. Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16668459794787447606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2397499842210905447.post-8250315873631304972017-12-01T20:38:30.615-08:002017-12-01T20:38:30.615-08:00A very nice, heartfelt tribute to Petty. It oozes ...A very nice, heartfelt tribute to Petty. It oozes with a message of genuine loss. <br />.. I like his "I won't back down" a lot. I dillied a bit to read up on him again. I hadn't realized your pick was released in 1989. I thought it was older. He and I had a lot in common, an abusive father (I haven't forgiven him, he reconcilled with his), a free spirit loosened (I had long hair, rode a motorcycle, which I parked under the trees in the park and listend to the various bands playing there, did things I don't mention, and finally was rescued by a loving second wife.)Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02982249173214655060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2397499842210905447.post-66822662555238200222017-12-01T20:26:05.544-08:002017-12-01T20:26:05.544-08:00Wow, Susie. Such passionate phrases! I love the ru...Wow, Susie. Such passionate phrases! I love the ruthless brilliance of this monologue.Kerry O'Connorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00720862912375945249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2397499842210905447.post-25731823059871181002017-12-01T18:43:56.619-08:002017-12-01T18:43:56.619-08:00The Violent Bleak and the army of the demented - y...The Violent Bleak and the army of the demented - yikes. Wonderful description. So many musicians lost in 2017.Sherry Blue Skyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01926508656571639801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2397499842210905447.post-87496693347810657492017-12-01T16:53:08.028-08:002017-12-01T16:53:08.028-08:00Never underestimate the power of music to keep you...Never underestimate the power of music to keep you motivated to fight the good fight. I Won't Back Down is one of my favorites in these troubled times too.Rommyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18343895193475984183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2397499842210905447.post-28277150894747535872017-12-01T16:18:18.134-08:002017-12-01T16:18:18.134-08:00Such a powerful last line. How good it would be to...Such a powerful last line. How good it would be to feed from the histories and examples of those who once were, to arm ourselves with the shadow of their courage, and then nurture it until it is pure energy. Magaly Guerrerohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18295455026184103230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2397499842210905447.post-69600615393858197542017-12-01T15:52:10.809-08:002017-12-01T15:52:10.809-08:00This is as honed and sharp as a flint skinning kni...This is as honed and sharp as a flint skinning knife--and as eloquent as the wrinkles in an old woman's face. I especially love the title, Susie--so apt, and this line: '...fear brings a loaded weapon..." and it fires point blank. Such a distilled taste of loss, and of the dismay we feel these days at each new dawn, wondering what will be taken--I grieve for the man, too. Thanks for showing us once again what 55 words can do.hedgewitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13090696134322515899noreply@blogger.com