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I liked this poem very much, I canot understand why it has had no response from the members. Here is a gifted poet, from a different culture, different continent and the poem is ripe with references that we can only guese at.This is why the essence of poetry is about, enjoying other worlds without h...

Horray!!! one of Michael's poem's I can comment on, uhm actually the only one so far. Its a poem based squarly in the Christian culture rather than say the Jewish, or Muslim, Hindu or any other culture. Unless you are Western you may strugle with some of the concepts. The writer compared the America...

I like this final edit. To me it has shades of Kipling yet without his dated, but enjoyable rhyme, it is evokative and brings to the senses Imperial India. The old India that has faded now in the light of industrial development and Bohpol carnage. Yes, very well done. I am in a hole at the moment an...

I asked her for a remedy for rough skin, warts and skin eruptions. She, a profesional, a graduate, a pharmacist even, shook her head, I was getting no help from her. It wasn't that she was unkind it was just that she was detached and who can blame her Old men don't interest young attractive women br...

Yea! like Yoly I too savoured this poem. I think it can be improved which no one else has suggested. I would use caps for the title, important and begin sentences with a capital letter too, just for standard English usage. 'The sun is coated ina raindrop' seems to explicit to me, why not: the sun co...

I liked this poem, a picture of India. It's a bit prosaic and needs pruning. Your opening is OK but it is remembered not remember. In fact you could say it better and shorter, do we need to know you were not a school girl, you tell us as much in saying you were an adolecent. Maybe you could use: My ...

I don't see anything clever or even remotely poetic about this piece Michael. It is however very much like the rest of your work.

Ok, thanks...bad spelling is annoying. Carpathian for carparthian Descended for decended I agree it's not a particularly or even a good poem. But thanks for input Pen, most don't bother at all. You are right to complain Pen, hit me hard...I think I can take it. Itried and found that I had not expres...

Our communal breath held tight with the buckles as the plane decended in the Carpathian dusk Sunlight glinting on titanium wings We landed with a tremendous jolt And were asked to clap the black pilot For this undeniably hard landing He grinned as we left his teeth shining Daring us to complain Chea...