Comment from Joan E.

Excellent

Thank you for your photograph of the Guthrie Theater and your notes. Also, your explanation of the name of the form was much appreciated. I enjoyed your regular stanzas, rhymes and repeat. Cheers- Joan

 Comment Written 23-Mar-2016

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reply by the author on 24-Mar-2016

Thank you very much Joan. An interesting building, with the new Vikings stadium going up just behind it.

Comment from ciliverde

Excellent

Interesting form, I like it...it's kind of intricate, the way the rhymes are threaded through the poem. I like that you choose local places or artifacts for your poems, accompanied by your own photographs - it shows that poetry can be found in every day life, the common things we see and do. I've been to Minneapolis, a couple of times - once in winter (brrr!). I remember it as being a really beautiful city!
Carol

 Comment Written 22-Mar-2016

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reply by the author on 23-Mar-2016

Yes it is a beautiful city, always growing. Glad you liked the form and the poem.

Comment from Ricky1024

Excellent

high pressure an interesting story and a follow-up and others nerves have in the Hanson well written in semen imagery and I'll answer reviewer to realize that part of the world the world they most likely will never visit Ricky 1024

 Comment Written 22-Mar-2016

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reply by the author on 22-Mar-2016

Thank you Ricky.

Comment from foxangie123

Excellent

What beautiful imagery from the photo taken to the lines you wrote with. This is so very greatly written as is all your work. Xo

 Comment Written 22-Mar-2016

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reply by the author on 22-Mar-2016

Thank you foxangie.

Comment from Pantygynt

Excellent

For someone like myself who has studied the dramatic art quite considerably, this sounds like a magnificent theatre. The poem has a fascinating form but I don't make the connection between ampel and vine. The only ampel I know of is the German for traffic lights. Lol.

I like the way the rhyme scheme weaves and your neat near feminine rhyme on the stressed syllables of Minneapolis and metropolis.

 Comment Written 22-Mar-2016

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reply by the author on 22-Mar-2016

Thank you Pantygynt. Just relating what Tony noted.

Comment from I am Cat

Excellent

Hello Tom,
I wonder what Willy would have thought about this building?
It's certainly not very much in keeping with Shakesperean style, is it? Very much modern... What does the inside look like? I wonder why they chose Shakespeare to name it after? There are so many amazing modern writers/artists to name things after... ah well, people don't have much in the way of naming things after LIVING people, do they? We have to be dead to be appreciated.

Well, that's for another poem, isn't it? lol

I enjoyed your poem, Tom... interesting poem, and it certainly tells the tale... I think it has more charm than the building, actually. ;) lol
I hope you enjoyed your time, that was very thoughtful of your daughter.
Hugs
cat

 Comment Written 22-Mar-2016

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reply by the author on 22-Mar-2016

Thank you Cat. Yes, I very much enjoyed it. It was a delightfully thoughtful gift. Ah, the building is round on the other side actually. So, the the main theater is in the round.

reply by I am Cat on 22-Mar-2016

ah, well that makes more sense to me! ;)

Comment from Sandra du Plessis

Excellent

Very interesting history on the Guthrie. It is a wonderful treat to go to a theatre to watch a big play. It is also a great forn of poem well constructed.

 Comment Written 22-Mar-2016

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reply by the author on 22-Mar-2016

Thank you Sandra. It was an exciting treat.

Comment from TAB_that's me

Excellent

This is a fun poem about what looks like and sound like a very large theatre. Is is older or newer?

Very good poem.

Teresa

 Comment Written 22-Mar-2016

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reply by the author on 22-Mar-2016

This building is about 10 years old.