Comment from
Jazh
What a beautiful poem! And such a difficult mandate, that contest (it daunted me rather!). Your rhymes are good, and mostly unforced (hard with the line by line requirements). I don't know if I can suggest alternatives, but here goes...what about leaving out "[to know] their own way" in stanza 2 - just my thought. You have all the right virtues in your kids, obviously. Good luck with the contest. :)
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Comment Written 10-Jan-2009
reply by the author on 10-Jan-2009
I changed it from "to know their own way" to "to find their own way". Thanks for a good heads-up on that one. Have to keep the 14 syllables in each line. Thank you very much for your great review and compliments! :-)) Sue