Forest Memories
A Lover Looks Back75 total reviews
Comment from LisaMay
You portray a longingly poignant and deeply meaningful sense of attachment to person and place in this lovely poem. You've integrated nature and sensuality well.
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You portray a longingly poignant and deeply meaningful sense of attachment to person and place in this lovely poem. You've integrated nature and sensuality well.
Comment Written 10-Feb-2022
reply by the author on 10-Feb-2022
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Thank you, Lisa! I appreciate your encouraging words, and all the stars!
irish
Comment from dragonpoet
This is a well written ode in honor of a lost loved one. It shows how deep your love was and how much this forest meant to both of you. It gives clear images of both the forests and the waters.
Keep writing and stay heatlhy
dragonpoet
reply by the author on 10-Feb-2022
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This is a well written ode in honor of a lost loved one. It shows how deep your love was and how much this forest meant to both of you. It gives clear images of both the forests and the waters.
Keep writing and stay heatlhy
dragonpoet
Comment Written 10-Feb-2022
reply by the author on 10-Feb-2022
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Wow, thank you for your insightful review, and all the stars!
irish
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You are most kindly welcome, Irish.
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Comment from Joanne Gill-Maddick
This is a very beautifully written and moving piece. A lovely tribute. It has a nice flow and rhyme scheme. Beautuful photo to compliment your words as well.
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This is a very beautifully written and moving piece. A lovely tribute. It has a nice flow and rhyme scheme. Beautuful photo to compliment your words as well.
Comment Written 10-Feb-2022
reply by the author on 10-Feb-2022
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Hi, Joanne, I really appreciate your encouraging thoughts and all the stars! Cheers,
irish
Comment from dmt1967
I loved the picture and the words. It made me think of loved ones who are not here any more and I liked the way the poem flowed. Thank you for sharing and take care.
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I loved the picture and the words. It made me think of loved ones who are not here any more and I liked the way the poem flowed. Thank you for sharing and take care.
Comment Written 10-Feb-2022
reply by the author on 10-Feb-2022
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Wow, thank you for your encouraging thoughts, and all those stars!
Cheers, irish
Comment from Frank Malley
This is a powerful poem about love lost to death; that love is celebrated in memory as the narrator strolls through a woodland where he and his beloved deceased had walked and made love amid the splendor of a gentle day. The emotional grasp of "Forest Memories" is gentled by the use of sussurant diction and choice of imagery. I felt educated by this poet's tranquil but solemn use of tetrameter and enjambment.
reply by the author on 10-Feb-2022
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This is a powerful poem about love lost to death; that love is celebrated in memory as the narrator strolls through a woodland where he and his beloved deceased had walked and made love amid the splendor of a gentle day. The emotional grasp of "Forest Memories" is gentled by the use of sussurant diction and choice of imagery. I felt educated by this poet's tranquil but solemn use of tetrameter and enjambment.
Comment Written 10-Feb-2022
reply by the author on 10-Feb-2022
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Hi Frank, I am awed by your insight and your knowledge of the methods used to try and illustrate the scene, and bring the memory of this love to life. I was overseas in the US Navy when I learned his beautiful, sensitive young girl had taken her life.
No note, no apparent reason.
Thank you for the Exceptional rating, I am humbled.
Take care,
irish
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You've written a fine commemoration.
Comment from Wendy G
How beautiful. You have written of a beautiful and enduring love, with fine imagery. Are the Spanish galleons cloud formations? It is a very lyrical piece of writing, composed with skill.
Wendy
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How beautiful. You have written of a beautiful and enduring love, with fine imagery. Are the Spanish galleons cloud formations? It is a very lyrical piece of writing, composed with skill.
Wendy
Comment Written 10-Feb-2022
reply by the author on 10-Feb-2022
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Hi, Wendy, I appreciate you stopping by, and all the stars!
Yes, the galleons are tall, majestic clouds.
Thank you for all the stars, take care,
irish
Comment from jake cosmos aller
Very powerful mediation on losing a friend. Unfortunately, as we get older, it becomes part of life. The other day I heard of five deaths, one a famous composer I liked, another an athlete from my high school, my college roommate's mother whom I recall fondly, and the elder brother of an old friend.
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Very powerful mediation on losing a friend. Unfortunately, as we get older, it becomes part of life. The other day I heard of five deaths, one a famous composer I liked, another an athlete from my high school, my college roommate's mother whom I recall fondly, and the elder brother of an old friend.
Comment Written 10-Feb-2022
reply by the author on 10-Feb-2022
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Hi, Jake, thank you for reading, your thoughts, and all the stars! You are so right there, I have only three high school classmates left, and just lost one of my last friends a month ago, from cancer. I am the last of my original family alive.
Growing older is a trial, a gift, a challenge.
Cheers, irish
Comment from Paul McFarland
A very touching poem. It is crystal clear what this person meant to you. Not bad on the rhyme and meter. The Spanish galleons have me a little confused.
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A very touching poem. It is crystal clear what this person meant to you. Not bad on the rhyme and meter. The Spanish galleons have me a little confused.
Comment Written 09-Feb-2022
reply by the author on 10-Feb-2022
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Hi, Paul, thank you for reading, and all the stars! The galleons are tall, majestic clouds, floating slowly by, in an azure sky-I shoulda been more clear there.
Cheers, irish
Comment from BethShelby
This is truly beautiful, sad, and heartfelt. The story of someone you cared for deeply that is gone, makes this poem hauntingly poignant. I love the picture you chose.
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This is truly beautiful, sad, and heartfelt. The story of someone you cared for deeply that is gone, makes this poem hauntingly poignant. I love the picture you chose.
Comment Written 09-Feb-2022
reply by the author on 10-Feb-2022
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Hi, Beth, thank you for reading, your kind thoughts, and all the stars.
Years later, after we graduated from high school parted ways, I was overseas in the US Navy when my Mom wrote and told me this young beautiful girl had taken her life.
Take care, irish
Comment from T B Botts
Hello Irish,
This is a delightful poem, a pleasure to read. To be left with such pleasant memories after the passing of a loved on is to be blessed indeed. I'm sorry for your loss.
Blessings
Tom
reply by the author on 10-Feb-2022
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Hello Irish,
This is a delightful poem, a pleasure to read. To be left with such pleasant memories after the passing of a loved on is to be blessed indeed. I'm sorry for your loss.
Blessings
Tom
Comment Written 09-Feb-2022
reply by the author on 10-Feb-2022
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Hi, Tom, thank you for your thoughtful review, your condolence, and all those stars.
I still remember her, and what an amazing romance we had. Didn't realize at the time how magical everything was, too young.
Take care, irish
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Isn't that the truth Irish? All too often we don't realize what we have until it's gone. I'm glad you had what so many in the world only dream about.
