First Conversation Poem by Daniel Brick

An interesting narrative account with a beautifully done simile serving as the second stanza. The story of two lonely travelers meeting and realizing that there travels have carried them just where they wanted to be. Away from there lonliness

Beautiful! First conversation is beautiful poem.

Beautiful. Again feels like I've influenced you. The dawn, in which thought transcends language and feelings transcend thought and everything else is transcended by something. The unreachable. Reminds me of Gadamer's metaphor of crossing horizons.

This is the kind of interaction we all hope to have. That first conversation, the kind that makes you feel like the search is over and you're no longer a hopeful traveler in a foreign land so to speak lol. If you've had this kind of conversation I must say I truly envy you! Also I love the last verse: We cannot finally know if each had ended an old year alone or both had begun a new one together. I'd gather, that it's both and thus both lines ended up in the poem for which I'm grateful. A lighthearted, simple poem that captures a beautiful transaction and frames it. Nicely done! ~Nika