| The Downpour —-revised
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2021-04-11
Very nice.
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| Soft words from a broken sky
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2021-04-07
A fine poem, overall. The third stanza is magical.
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| Nature’s Cadence
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2021-04-06
Very nice.
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| The Fish
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2021-04-06
Outstanding.
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| Panic
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2021-04-06
Arhat! I will follow you anywhere.
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| The Lion Inside
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2021-04-03
A routine transition, well described.
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| The Yellow Chrysanthemum
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2021-04-02
This is fine, fine writing, Bibek.
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| A Day Of Indulgence
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2021-04-01
"Idyl" defined. Nice work, Joe.
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| The Blue Tinged Zinger
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2021-03-30
As an "essential worker" (grocery store drone), I've grown used to people who loom in, who don't, or won't, properly wear masks. I spin the wheel every day, and I've been lucky, I guess. I've stopped giving Covid much thought.
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| Baslilique de Sainte-Anne-d'Auray
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2021-03-30
A classic Elle poem. You show us where you were, picking all the right details, making us wish we'd been along.
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| On Censure
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2021-03-30
Brilliant! And true!
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| Remembrance
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2021-03-28
Nicely done, Joe.
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| Psychedelia Smith
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2021-03-27
Very amusing!
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| Light!
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2021-03-26
As you show so well, the circumstances surrounding an ordinary act are worth considering.
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| Disorder
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2021-03-26
Now, there's a fine metaphor.
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| Mask
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2021-03-25
I'm happy for you. I'd never considered the situation from that angle: relief at not being seen. Mostly, I miss being able to see others.
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| Enigma
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2021-03-25
First class work, Chris. Great title. Sad story.
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| The Cabin
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2021-03-25
No better place and way to ride out a storm.
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| With a Wimper
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2021-03-24
Mar-a-Lago, deftly sketched.
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| Roethke
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2021-03-23
Agreed.
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| Capitale-Nationale?
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2021-03-23
On the battlefield, sentiments nearly always triumph over facts.
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| Consider Water
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2021-03-23
True!
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| Those Catholic Boyhood Blues
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2021-03-21
Wonderful writing!
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| Milk of Human Kindness
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2021-03-21
Nice one!
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| Closing To Essence
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2021-03-19
Interesting speculation.
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| Renewal
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2021-03-18
Well done, Joe. I especially liked the cheerful second stanza.
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| Spring Restaging
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2021-03-17
Sounds delightful. Let's hope that we'll be able to do such things again.
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| Final Act
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2021-03-15
Nicely written, Joe.
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| I'll Never Do That Again
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2021-03-14
All one has to do is read carefully, absorbing the music of a poem like this, to realize that, while some of your poems are slight, none is subpar.
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| Speaking in Code
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2021-03-13
A fun, and I would say, accurate poem.
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| Lent
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2021-03-11
I can't be Christian, but, if I could be, I would be Orthodox. Catholicism is punitive, downright nasty. Orthodoxy seems genuinely humane.
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| How would you go about it?
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2021-03-08
Like Tom, I'm familiar with your situation. I once lived beneath somebody who seemed to like playing marches after he or she got off of work at midnight. I don't remember how I coped. I probably just moved away. I was quite nomadic in those days.
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| dispel the darkness and economy
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2021-03-08
I'm not so sure that your "assets are limited," but it's refreshing to see you use them prudently. There are some notorious wastrels hereabout.
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| The Snug
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2021-03-08
It sounds like the ideal place to ride out the winter.
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| Spring in Twilight Denouement
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2021-03-05
A nice poem. I share the feeling, though I wish you would have written "one more year" rather than "one last year."
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| Farewell
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2021-03-04
What a creative way to gather to say goodbye in this age of isolation.
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| Bushveld Lament
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2021-02-28
A very nice "road not taken" poem. Everyone has such memories, but few can express them so artfully.
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| a cold morning
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2021-02-28
I like the poem overall, love the last line.
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| At Last, Rain
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2021-02-26
I'm not a religious person, but what you felt, that wonderful sense of communal existence being reestablished, is one I look forward to experiencing somewhere, sometime.
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| Serai
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2021-02-25
Great job, Joe.
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| their embrace and "Mother's Tale"
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2021-02-21
"their embrace" is wonderfully well written.
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| Page 3 of 2
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2021-02-21
Most amusingly acute and nicely written!
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| human sciences
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2021-02-20
Either way, they're inseparable.
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| Matinee Hero
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2021-02-20
Nicely done.
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| Website Features & Modifications (Update 2)
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2021-02-16
I love the idea of an "edit" button! Thanks.
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| Christmas Eve Curitiba Brazil 1990
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2021-02-16
Wonderfully descriptive, Joe.
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| A Lesson in Drawing
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2021-02-16
A devastating poem.
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| A Chant For Gregory
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2021-02-14
Your subject and treatment remind me of Winslow Homer's paintings of "fishers' wives." This is meant to be a compliment.
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| Thinking the Worst
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2021-02-12
This is first-class writing, Tom, real poetry.
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| Zoom
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2021-02-12
Nicely written, Joe, but, to tell you the truth, touching and intimacy rarely elate me, so distancing hasn't bothered me.
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