Powerfully penned, Thomas. Excellent storytelling my friend. Nicely done as always. Appreciate you.

Damian

Brilliant .. sums it up perfectly .. Neville

This is fantastic poetry writing my friend! Gritty, strong, like a shot of whiskey. Colorful, great story telling, and imagery. Great work.

John

Waw raw and I can see the imagery in this.

Goldenmyst said it accurately. I concur wholeheartedly.
But, thunderbird? My god, man. At the least Seagrams 7 !!! LOL
This is very good writing. A bullseye on a dartboard of a swanky bar life.
Awesome.

Outstanding and real. Nice work.

Thank you.

I love how you wove it all together into a cohesive story. There’s an underlying homage to the women and their fire and marks left on you that ties this all together so beautifully. I can’t help but think you made a difference in their existence as well. Fire water or no, this one is brilliant

Thank you. I appreciate you.

It’s beautiful and fantastic, Elke..

Thank you for this kind. comment, my friend! 🙏

Beautifully penned, Elke. Excellent storytelling my friend, with such a positive message. Appreciate you.

Damian

Very positive and uplifting story.

The message, the story & the beauty pours out deeply into my heart. Am marvelous journey with such an exquisite writer.

I like the way you used the age intertwined with what is happening to you.

Amnesia, would be a lonely thing for a poet of the forgotten. This was exquisite, Damian.

Hello dearest Damian great write I feel this I often wonder if forgetting is a blessing or a curse ❤️

Tremendous work, my friend.

Damian, this is strong tonic. I could feel this in my bones as I read. This i the stuff of poetry that feels like strong whiskey on the tongue. Sad but great writing.

John

It is cruel when the mind slips and cannot grasp what you have lost. Food for thought.

Older age? I know all too well the fading of a few things within myself!
Yet you haven’t lost your literary touch! You are blessed with talent, that hasn’t ebbed. Thankfully we write down our material, no need to remember them from scratch! LOL.
You still can kick some ass with a pen, Damian. Wield it high!

Exquisite piece Damian. Well written my friend.

exceptional read! full of concise, vividly profound imagery…
a sense of melancholic unrest. ~ c

As you so often do, you stirred levels here again. I read this from the personal perspective of memories slipping. A sense of self lost in blips of time. I also see this as the world arena and how people have lost their sense humanity, their compassion, their community. Like the whole damn world has global amnesia. And I read it as literal amnesia from losing time in the form of blanks in memory from drink or drugs. Many layers, my friend