Great poem and very well constructed. We are living in a fast-pace technology driven world. More time is spent conversing in the forum’s these days than actual reading and commenting. The forum has it’s place, but easy to waste too much time there. Well done friend.

I think that most of the things any of us do with our time (these days)are never given the time they are due.

Your writing/poetry speak volumes to me. Often echoing feelings and perceptions which I have not taken the time to put in my own words or may not have the time or mental energy to do so right now. Sun shines out of your poems which are as beautiful as they are human. I do take the time to read and ingest, Reilly.
It is unfortunate that ‘life’ – can not be how we always want it to be. But if roses did not bloom – we would not be able to smell them. The sweet scent of your ‘roses’ – have a healing quality.
It was you who told me never to give up writing, and I would like to return to you the favor,: “Never give up writing.”

This was such a good writting;just thought you should know.

WHOA. I love the deftness of this poem as it’s expressed on many levels.

Hm. “Indelibly rude”? (”Pause now, Morocco, and weigh…with an even hand.”) I never quite know what to do with a poet who boasts of his own beauty and ability, even a Shakespeare, unless he’s a Dante who’s both humble enough and skilled enough to get away with it. Projection: “fishing for compliments” is something that’s been long characteristic of me, so there’s an aspect of your poem that’s reminiscent of my earlier poetry. (If there’s boasting going on, at least these days it’s in the lips or viewed through the senses of my literary alter ego. )

> Do you savor these words, do you read them with care
> Or do you scan them with casual haste?
> Do my thought convey form unto you
> Or has it all gone terribly to waste?

Because the perspectives and the references change from line to line, I found it a bit difficult at first to reconstruct your underlying thought patterns. But it is worth taking the time to read the poem with care, so that one’s “introverted intuiting” has time to “connect the dots”. (That kind of intuition isn’t my long suit, apparently. I have to open up my subconscious considerably before I can access it, and even then it takes considerable energy.)

> Speak to me, dear reader, answer my plea
> Let me know what you want me to write.
> For if, for a moment, I thought I was wrong
> I would move mountains to make thing all right.

Well, for one thing it would be nice if you wrote comments for my latest posts! Other than that, more well-wrought stuff like this, the more the merrier (even if I, like you, am pressed for time to read the work of other Triond authors).

I always love reading your poetry. No matter what you write about it is so peaceful and really expresses life. It helps me remember how simple the complications of every day life really are and it calms my soul to think about the things that you describe. My favorite one is the one about reincarnation. I know that one really grabbed me. It meant a lot to me to read and imagine the different life stories. Thank you

Love it. It is very well-written, and I love the flow of words.

you’re such a talented poet… i always admired the sincerity of your work….