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INBETWEEN

2025-06-13
Now, here's something to ponder. Well done.


Ramblings 665

2025-05-31
I agree.


Dear Olivier,

2025-05-28
It sounds like you found a genuinely helpful therapist. Based on what I've experienced, you are lucky.


Big Mac

2025-05-27
I've seen it happen numerous times.


blonde hair/spaghetti straps

2025-05-23
A familiar name. This one leaves me wondering.


A Caution to Poets

2025-05-19
Most of the time.


Excitement

2025-05-19
As they say here in Nebraska, "giddy up!"


NOW THEIR'S ALONE

2025-05-19
A good metaphor, well presented.


rocky sonnet

2025-05-13
Forgive me, but I think that this is a pleasantly flinty poem.


Old Song

2025-05-10
I used to modify song lyrics for my kids all the time. One example: "When the moon hits your eye, you'll go blind and you'll die." With "America," I replaced "God shed His grace on thee" with "Good sheds don't come for free."


The Red Hat

2025-05-06
Fine, subtle rhyming.


The Prison Cell

2025-05-05
"I...hear the first line of this text." That's how it always begins, isn't it?


I hear the sparse traffic

2025-05-04
Nicely done. "Rivulet of sound" is a fine description, and, yes, we need the birds.


Youth And Calm

2025-04-28
There's an off-putting tick-tock facility to this poem, as is the case with nearly all British poetry written between 1650 and 1900.


Don't look up

2025-04-28
A sad state of affairs.


Spring

2025-04-25
Hooray!


Written in Response to Pensive Solitude on The Eve of This Night Revisited

2025-04-25
Nicely done.


Here

2025-04-22
Or perhaps "here" is everywhere and "now" is always.


A Glimpse

2025-04-21
Outstanding! Whitman was both the pioneer and master of free verse.


an ending

2025-04-21
A grim fate we all face very nicely described.


Seriously

2025-04-18
Aren't there laws against that sort of thing? No one should have to put up with it.


Her Voice

2025-04-18
Nailed it! Well done.


Dear Poetfriend

2025-04-13
You have.


Lesson 70

2025-04-11
I know that feeling. Sometimes, as I drive past a house, I wonder what it must be like to be one of the people who lives in it. I never will. So much can't be grasped.


LIFE... IS A BOX OF BITS

2025-04-09
Interesting.


Hard to Believe

2025-04-08
It's a pandemic.


Below Siehtagas

2025-04-08
Some fine imagery here.


Lesson 69

2025-04-08
Good one.


Lesson 68

2025-04-08
It's tough, being a piece of gunk.


Options (follow-up)

2025-04-08
That sounds like good idea.


NOT HOLDING HANDS

2025-04-06
The last two lines leave me wondering. Has she moved on?


ONLY

2025-04-02
Very nice, an interesting reminiscence.


Constant

2025-04-02
A fair question, but a sad one.


Angles

2025-03-26
Very nice.


Will It Swirl, Will I See It Dance?

2025-03-26
A fine meditation.


A PLACE OF TRIAGE

2025-03-25
Something to hope for.


The Party

2025-03-24
There's an appealing starkness to this.


Rain on Red Earth

2025-03-22
This is wonderfully descriptive. You put me there.


Casse-toi pas la tête, Issy

2025-03-22
I can imagine. Congratulations.


Oh Boy

2025-03-22
When you're done, you'll tell yourself that you had no reason to be so worried.


Sonnet II*

2025-03-17
A bit chewy, but worth the effort. The Elizabethans were, without question, the greatest English language poets ever.


Reflections IV

2025-03-15
No one should tell you to move past such misfortunes, but it's amazing and very enjoyable to know that you've been able to come to grips with them.


Reflections III

2025-03-15
Agreed.


Happy Ending!

2025-03-12
Wonderful!


A Bit Perplexing

2025-03-09
How peculiar. You have to wonder.


Reflections II

2025-03-09
An interesting meditation. I wonder how different your life now would seem if your childhood had progressed in the opposite fashion.


Afterlife

2025-03-03
Great finish!


artificiAlly intellIgent

2025-03-03
Not so different from the creatures who programmed it, eh?


Count That Day Lost

2025-03-03
Interesting rhyme pattern. Well done.


No Worries

2025-03-01
Independence is a thing to be cherished, not willingly surrendered.