tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910291709965283166.post1487100193524881054..comments2024-01-14T12:04:49.488-05:00Comments on Behind the Lines: Poetry, War, & Peacemaking: Sand Opera Lenten Journey Day 34: Saying to the Prisoners: Come out! (Black Site I) + Marwa Helal and Angele EllisPhilip Metreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05449159681282927289noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910291709965283166.post-21085893587535409782016-03-15T09:29:20.316-04:002016-03-15T09:29:20.316-04:00Thanks for your parts in it, Angele! I seem to be ...Thanks for your parts in it, Angele! I seem to be struggling toward the finish line (yesterday I had a thousand things to do), but it's been a good discipline. It helps to know others are on the way as well.Philip Metreshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05449159681282927289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5910291709965283166.post-16928854313631040172016-03-14T15:10:15.694-04:002016-03-14T15:10:15.694-04:00I am struck by the symmetry and synergy between Ma...I am struck by the symmetry and synergy between Marwa Halal's "dreamwork" and my "Scene II: Another Part of the Island." The evocations of dreaming and waking, the blurred lines between almost unimaginable reality and fantasy...the fly in the hand, freed whether crushed or released...the prisoner refusing release in Marwa's piece being named "savage," and Shakespeare's Caliban making his way into my piece. <br />Each day's meditations in "Sand Opera Lenten Journey" have guided my own admittedly unconventional Lenten journey. Thank you, friends and cousins. Thank you, Phil.Angelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11690238715338785159noreply@blogger.com