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I found this piece very
Posted on Mon, 27 Jul 2015
I found this piece very moving and heartening. Your grandad sounds like a great man who taught you so much about how to be one, too, and to show you good paths to follow, and even if we get lost now and again, that sort of guidance stays with us...
As Philip said, very beautiful. And it does speak to all who have lost someone. I found it so very moving - in floods of tears - for the sadness, and the happiness you decided to adopt knowing it was what would be wanted from you. I so get that....
I feel that I remember this lovely poem - so fragile in the making, like those delicate wings of the butterfly and her memory that means so much.
'Forget her?
Simpler, by far, to straighten
a rainbow, bring peace to...
Sometimes I think - thank goodness for poetry, where we can let these thoughts and feelings flood out, when we don't get the opportunity to vent them on those who deserve the worst. And you do it so well - the writing, I mean. He...
Oh, so clever! You built the narrators character so brilliantly by using contrast to the 'main' character, and the twist coming right at the end - you got me!!!
This is good, AE. 'no use assigning blame.' - that doesn't seem right as you are assigning blame. If you took that out, I think it would work well. Lots of emotion behind the words.
I liked this. If it were mine, I'd omit the last line and leave the outcome to the readers imagination. Just a thought. But I thought it was really good.
I found this piece very
Posted on Mon, 27 Jul 2015
I found this piece very moving and heartening. Your grandad sounds like a great man who taught you so much about how to be one, too, and to show you good paths to follow, and even if we get lost now and again, that sort of guidance stays with us...
Read full commentPosted in Byrd Jones, Teacher and Grandfather
An amazing write, especially
Posted on Tue, 21 Jul 2015
An amazing write, especially as the last part was written after you fell asleep in 1975 - time to wake up, I think....
Read full commentPosted in Thoughts on a Rooftop
As Philip said, very
Posted on Sun, 19 Jul 2015
As Philip said, very beautiful. And it does speak to all who have lost someone. I found it so very moving - in floods of tears - for the sadness, and the happiness you decided to adopt knowing it was what would be wanted from you. I so get that....
Read full commentPosted in I still feel you
I feel that I remember this
Posted on Fri, 17 Jul 2015
I feel that I remember this lovely poem - so fragile in the making, like those delicate wings of the butterfly and her memory that means so much.
Read full comment'Forget her?
Simpler, by far, to straighten
a rainbow, bring peace to...
Posted in Sara Orange-Tip Was Here
Hi Tina.
Posted on Fri, 17 Jul 2015
Hi Tina.
Sometimes I think - thank goodness for poetry, where we can let these thoughts and feelings flood out, when we don't get the opportunity to vent them on those who deserve the worst. And you do it so well - the writing, I mean. He...
Read full commentPosted in Doppelganger (Poetry Monthly)
I think the scary thing in
Posted on Tue, 14 Jul 2015
I think the scary thing in this poem is that it's about to happen. Beautifully pictured.
Read full commentPosted in The Town the Wind Blew Away
Oh, so clever! You built the
Posted on Mon, 13 Jul 2015
Oh, so clever! You built the narrators character so brilliantly by using contrast to the 'main' character, and the twist coming right at the end - you got me!!!
Great writing.
Read full commentPosted in Chalk And Cheese
This is good, AE. 'no use
Posted on Sun, 12 Jul 2015
This is good, AE. 'no use assigning blame.' - that doesn't seem right as you are assigning blame. If you took that out, I think it would work well. Lots of emotion behind the words.
Read full commentPosted in Pushed
Thanks for the lovely photo
Posted on Sun, 05 Jul 2015
Thanks for the lovely photo of the glass half full.
Read full commentPosted in Positive Thinking
I liked this. If it were mine
Posted on Mon, 06 Jul 2015
I liked this. If it were mine, I'd omit the last line and leave the outcome to the readers imagination. Just a thought. But I thought it was really good.
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