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Dear Rachel,
having read all other comments I am going to add my two-penny worth. I find it incomprehensible that a talented writer as yourself should be so self-doubting as to contemplate to delete such a sensitive piece as this even...
A lovely poem, Ed, with comforting memories of a small bedroom with a bedspread whose pattern is a source of inventive imagination and a feeling of being secure within those four walls.
A terrible shame that the tiger population has been declining, and become extinct in some Asian regions, over the years due to poaching and deforestation. The same fate has beset elephants too and other wild animals. As far as the tigers are...
Something to get the ball rolling, Rachel. Hopefully I'll soon have new ideas; in the meantime I keep ruminating. I am very glad that you are following my progress and thank you for it.
An absorbing and educational well crafted poem, Rachel. Reading that the caterpillar can be poisonous was for me a revelation. Well done on the accolade.
A charming poem describing the imagination of a child at the sight of the rainbow, transporting him to a magic place that the adults cannot penetrate. Thanks for sharing this, JoAnne.
For those conversant with marine exploration the analogy between the mollusc and the eponymous submarine springs to mind but the poem delves into deeper waters and becomes, as I see it, a metaphor for fluctuating emotions like love, rejection and...
I am slowly getting an education by reading your poems Rachel. They are so fascinating that I feel duty bound to find more information about the subject. Today I have come across the noun 'cicada' twice first here and then from a prose poem by...
A nice, loving poem, Jenny.
Posted on Fri, 07 Aug 2020
A nice, loving poem, Jenny.
Virtual hugs from me too.
Luigi xx
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Dear Rachel,
Posted on Sat, 01 Aug 2020
Dear Rachel,
Read full commenthaving read all other comments I am going to add my two-penny worth. I find it incomprehensible that a talented writer as yourself should be so self-doubting as to contemplate to delete such a sensitive piece as this even...
Posted in To my imaginary child
A lovely poem, Ed, with
Posted on Tue, 04 Aug 2020
A lovely poem, Ed, with comforting memories of a small bedroom with a bedspread whose pattern is a source of inventive imagination and a feeling of being secure within those four walls.
Best, Luigi
Read full commentPosted in Box Room
A terrible shame that the
Posted on Thu, 30 Jul 2020
A terrible shame that the tiger population has been declining, and become extinct in some Asian regions, over the years due to poaching and deforestation. The same fate has beset elephants too and other wild animals. As far as the tigers are...
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Something to get the ball
Posted on Sun, 26 Jul 2020
Something to get the ball rolling, Rachel. Hopefully I'll soon have new ideas; in the meantime I keep ruminating. I am very glad that you are following my progress and thank you for it.
Luigi x
Read full commentPosted in Embracing the Change
An absorbing and educational
Posted on Sat, 04 Jul 2020
An absorbing and educational well crafted poem, Rachel. Reading that the caterpillar can be poisonous was for me a revelation. Well done on the accolade.
Luigi x
Read full commentPosted in Puss Moths
A charming poem describing
Posted on Wed, 17 Jun 2020
A charming poem describing the imagination of a child at the sight of the rainbow, transporting him to a magic place that the adults cannot penetrate. Thanks for sharing this, JoAnne.
Luigi x
Read full commentPosted in "Could It Be Magic?"
For those conversant with
Posted on Wed, 17 Jun 2020
For those conversant with marine exploration the analogy between the mollusc and the eponymous submarine springs to mind but the poem delves into deeper waters and becomes, as I see it, a metaphor for fluctuating emotions like love, rejection and...
Read full commentPosted in Nautilus
A remarkable piece. Well done
Posted on Sun, 14 Jun 2020
A remarkable piece. Well done. Congratulations on Pick of the Day.
Luigi x
Read full commentPosted in Shark Eye Shell
I am slowly getting an
Posted on Sat, 13 Jun 2020
I am slowly getting an education by reading your poems Rachel. They are so fascinating that I feel duty bound to find more information about the subject. Today I have come across the noun 'cicada' twice first here and then from a prose poem by...
Read full commentPosted in The Loneliness of a Cicada
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