Monday, January 20, 2003

A Red Palm Comments

Rating: 3.7

You're in this dream of cotton plants.
You raise a hoe, swing, and the first weeds
Fall with a sigh. You take another step,
Chop, and the sigh comes again,
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Gary Soto
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Dorji 19 July 2022

What is the sore light he sees?

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Maria Mitea 29 December 2021

this so lovely, wonderful piece of writing!

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Rose Marie Juan-austin 29 December 2021

A wonderful story on life embellished with crystalline images with a meaningful message.

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Bharati Nayak 16 February 2021

How dreams are entwined with cotton plants! The cotton plants fall with sighs to provide food and light to the family ---The struggle of life so wonderfully presented! Congratulations for this amazing poem being selected as the Poem of the Day!

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Bharati Nayak 16 February 2021

You're in this dream of cotton plants. You raise a hoe, swing, and the first weeds Fall with a sigh. You take another step, Chop, and the sigh comes again, Until you yourself are breathing that way With each step, a sigh that will follow you into town.----A splendid poem!

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ayesha 17 December 2020

in line 3 what makes the sound and what does it suggest?

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guacamole n pito 05 October 2020

yo mama yo mama yo mama yo mama yo mama yo mama yo mama yo mama yo mama yo mama yo mama yo mama yo mama yo mama yo mama

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Chinedu Dike 24 April 2020

Well expressed thoughts and feelings. An insightful work of art. Thanks for sharing, Gary.

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Danny Green 08 November 2019

it was a great poem and very inspiring for young kids.

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urmom.com 09 May 2019

meow meow im a cow meow meow im a cow meow meow im a cowmeow meow im a cowmeow meow im a cowmeow meow im a cowmeow meow im a cowmeow meow im a cowmeow meow im a cowmeow meow im a cowmeow meow im a cow

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Steph Curry 09 May 2019

thats a good poem for sure

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Tatiana 09 May 2019

your funny

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penischeeto.com 15 April 2020

*ahem* *you’re

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wigaa 05 April 2019

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maritssa 02 October 2018

what i liked about the poem is that the character does the same thing like me. for example, when i feel bored i go under a tree and see the sun set down.

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Abraham Lincoln 30 April 2018

buncha in this place mexicans

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Gary Soto 21 March 2019

F U C white people

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Me Me Big Boy 24 April 2018

This poem... NO words

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Joe Howell 30 March 2018

Delightful words.

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takeira 23 April 2018

I know that it is some delightful words that are in the poem they are good and loving words

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Bignutz Ledoux 11 May 2012

dear alexis you are my hero keep up the good work of getting plastered ;)

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Ladawn Trice 16 March 2012

somehow, managed to turn a smile upside down... you reap what you sow, but you have to make the best of it, so out of it can come benefits. no matter how much of a fooled you acted then, for your family you will break your back to give them all that they need and some of the desires that they want. to make sure that your child/ren doesn't reflect the fool you acted in school, but to be the business man you are in the fields w a better tune... beauty shows its' face in many directions

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Alexis Ligues 05 October 2010

Hi im Alexis ligues and this poem reminds me of the one time that i tried to be cool and took vodka to school.. which i still do. and i think this poem is great! it makes me want to get wasted

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Neojuna Riddick 01 February 2008

i enjoy reading something that makes me tilt me head, and just say wow

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