Honesuckle and Roses

[abu nuwas]

we take what we can hehe.
the main thing i got from your poem was a feeling of what poetry must feel like.
i know this will sound really shitty; words being what the poetry is made of, but i think poetry is more than words.
it's what you have left when you take the mere words out of the poem. poetry is left and if they're lucky, the reader can bathe in the poetry; the words are just bathwater, the poetry is the warm feeling when you soak or the shiver when the cold invigorates.
you could have substituted oliverine and odovacar for a multitude of others and it would still have been what poetry should feel like.

i got carried away didn't i i would buy a book of poetry like this, or steal it should i be broke

I am flattered. Of course I was also playing around to see how far one could push archaistic language. You are dead right about the names, and I think I agree with every word you say. After all, we do not ask what some favorite piece of music 'means'; sometimes (if we can get them) lyrics will stay with us, but it is not necessary. I think the same is true of poetry. Thanks again, Billy