Your poem ” I found my Soul” is simply brilliant, a gem of spiritual insight. The latest poems that you’ve sent me have been truly amazing. Your ability to uniquely craft unusually creative, meaning-imbued word sculptures, and exceptionally imaginative language paintings, has unquestionably evolved in quantum leaps over the time I’ve known you. Your use of language is more enchanting than ever, and your work always makes me feel good (even when you write about death). I think that your work – your poetry and prose, your paintings and drawings — consistently radiates more positive, light and life-filled energy than any other art on this planet.
David Brown
Dear Carolyn,
thank you very much for sharing your poem with me: I know the pool and its surroundings very well, and I am impressed by your poetic sensibility, which turns the site into vital imagery to capture the contrast between transitoriness and timelessness. I understand the soul as timeless essence, and in this sense the poem can be ranked with Susila’s poems of silence, I would think. — By the way, did the pool at Laura’s exist when Aldous lived and did he swim in it? If so, the poem would also capture a reflection of Aldous’ soul, wouldn’t it?
Thank you again and keep in contact, will you?
Best wishes,
Bernfried