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2023-05-30
Very much liking this poem. Its elegant and eloquent simplicity.
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| His Death is Scheduled for Next Monday
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2023-05-28
Sending compassion.
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| Revisiting Old Friends
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2023-05-16
The love of old well-made poems, be they from 1630 or 1930. It inspires this reader's wholesouled concurrence.
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| April showers
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2023-05-16
Perfect. And good to see you posting!
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| the girl in a red shirt
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2023-05-08
The economical language serves this poem well. The emotions are heightened, not reduced, by the graceful simplicity and elegant directness of articulation.
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| elise
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2023-05-08
I enjoyed this poem, its seemingly casual accuracy, its open-hearted fidelity to a particular moment, to a particular person. A memorandum of what deserves to be remembered!
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| plumbing depths
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2023-05-06
A fresh idiom and agile rhyming!
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| Quick Coucou
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2023-05-06
Thanks for the update! And so glad things are going rather well.
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| INTRODUCTION TO LIFE PART FOUR
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2023-05-04
I enjoyed reading this one very much. Vivid vignettes!
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| Poet bay
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2023-05-04
Sona, thank you for doing your part to breathe life into our wee cyber-gathering of poets!
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| Ra?
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2023-04-30
I admire this whole poem, but I especially like "dowdy" for the river.
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| Daffodils
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2023-04-22
I love the fact that you've taken that most Wordsworthian of topics, and made it vivid, and detailed, and alive, poetically alive (even though this is prose, and perhaps because this is prose!). This was a very enjoyable read. Thank you for posting it! Peace and light, Thomas D.
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| two poems
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2023-04-22
These are a joy to read!
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| At the Pond
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2023-04-20
Very good, sir. I like this cinematograph!
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| IT'S RAINING IT'S PORING DOWN
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2023-04-15
Ken! Such a cheerful poem! Thank you!
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| A Sunny Day by Ann Wood
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2023-03-27
Oh, bless that pesky squirrel! And the kinder flowers, as well.
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| Iterations
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2023-03-27
Such beauty (visual), to which your words provide a fitting analogue. Thank you so much!
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| Words
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2023-03-27
I cherish the conscious and deliberate cadence of the poem, careful and sure-footed at the same time. The short, shapely lines serve the poem well.
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| listening to the carmell jones quartet on a rainy day
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2023-03-25
I'll wager you won't be regretting those moments!
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| Avalanche
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2023-03-25
It's good to be reading you, Sameen, and a readerly joy to encounter such an able and well-made poem. Thank you!
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| trans resistance
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2023-03-24
"a match of pawns and King James" --- brilliant.
the poem is powerful throughout, and beyond commendable.
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| Watching March
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2023-03-22
This reminds me, in theme, and sometimes in language, of all the fine odes to spring written by folks like Herrick and Cummings. Your rhyme scheme here is wonderful! A joy to read.
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| castle walls
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2023-03-15
Among many excellent poems you have written, this is the best I've read yet. Such vividness, power, prowess. Gracefully exposited and cadenced from start to finish. A moving and compelling portrait of both protagonists.
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| Inklings
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2023-03-15
Powerful. And about to be bookmarked.
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| Marmalade
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2023-03-12
Vivid and immediate and poetically powerful: an excellence.
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| Israeli Woman
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2023-03-12
Beautiful painting, and the theme of reconciliation resonates.
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| Late Winter Antidote
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2023-03-09
Much to admire here, Joe. The first stanza's rhymes induced the broadest smile!
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| Tomorrow
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2023-03-08
Beautiful, Joe. Thank you.
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| My Music
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2023-03-05
An engaging and skilled exposition of your favourites! And welcome, sir!
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| The Influence of Your Presence
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2023-03-05
And UM thanks FM!
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| The Guardian
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2023-03-03
I love the cadence: "this solitaire, this sentinel," etc.: the four-beat line flexibly firm.
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| wait what
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2023-03-03
I am smiling broadly. I am enjoying it mightily.
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| midnight (at the oasis)
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2023-02-20
How old am I? I don't even have to ask who Maria is!
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| unbuttoning
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2023-02-20
I'm likin' this much.
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| Reverie
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2023-02-09
Almost like poetic pointillism! Beautifully executed. And about to be bookmarked.
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| All the Legends
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2023-02-09
"as the nights became pups to our dog days" --- brilliant!
the whole poem is a pleasure. many thanks.
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| traffic
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2023-02-09
ooh! this small poem, as Marianne Moore might've said, startles the reader to felicity
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| Taunted
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2023-02-07
I cherish the scope and specificity of "from Euripides to Harper Lee" --- and yes, same!
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| Not Synonyms
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2023-01-19
Sorry those lessons came the hard way. I value and appreciate the poem.
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| SYLLABLES
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2023-01-16
Very glad to have provided some impetus to this poem, Alan!
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| EXPLAINNG ME
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2023-01-16
I love this. For you, an Irish ditty. For me, age 11, the poems of Robert Frost and the songs of Lennon & McCartney.
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| Haiku
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2023-01-15
Love love love.
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| Road Warriors
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2023-01-15
Merveilleux, mon ami! About to bookmarkify!
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| LIFE
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2023-01-13
Poignant. And says what it needs to say very well, very effectively.
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| The Poet's Prison
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2023-01-13
You know, I may have to respond to this! In unrhymed pentameters, of course!
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| Frustration Funnel
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2023-01-13
Wowzers! Joe! The freewheelin' Josephus! I'm hearing an echo (in a good way) of Bob Dylan in "cast-offs, write-off, Boris Karloff's" ... it's whimsical and fun and rolls off the voice quite nicely!
Even though born of frustration, this has appeal! I like it a lot.
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| Mind Bending
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2023-01-10
a 13-line trimeter sonnet of sorts! and i am fascinated by the idea behind the poem.
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| This Lazy Day
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2023-01-10
A winsome and enjoyable adventure in rhyme! Tip o' the ol' cap to thee, poetical chum!
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| Love…Among The Ruins
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2023-01-10
"Tattered soul with gentle hands": that is the apex, for me. So beautifully expressed, and one knows exactly what you mean. Excellent to see you posting, Joe.
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| FORGETTING
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2023-01-10
Playful and serious at once. A joy to have read!
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