Monday, January 13, 2003

A Week Later Comments

Rating: 3.3

A week later, I said to a friend: I don't
think I could ever write about it.
Maybe in a year I could write something.
There is something in me maybe someday
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Sharon Olds
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Rose Marie Juan-austin 04 July 2025

A very engaging and interesting poem. So powerful and meaningful!

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Bill Grace 06 November 2022

I feel she is one of our greats and that it is our duty to push her notoriety.

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Kingsley Egbukole 17 December 2019

Touching and interesting.

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Anil Kumar Panda 17 December 2019

Deeply meaningful write on love and life. Nicely crafted. Enjoyed reading. Thanks for posting.

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Mahtab Bangalee 17 December 2019

the moment the hour spent through the great love feelings and it touched the soul of eternity!

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Paul Reed 17 December 2019

That is so powerful and wonderful to read

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Anil Kumar Panda 19 November 2016

A love that bloomed releasing fragrance of youth and ending in a sad note at the death bed of mother has been penned nicely. Thanks for sharing.

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Birgitta Abimbola Heikka 19 November 2016

Nice poem. I did not understand it at first. It’s about something lost (I think) . Like the reference of the lobby to the beauty of a king’s tomb—silent and dead but there is still a beauty about it.

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R Soos 19 November 2016

so many stories stashed quickly into a single poem - tough to do convincingly - and Sharon pulls it off.

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Ratnakar Mandlik 19 November 2016

A beautifully conceived meaningful write full of emotional out-bursts. Congrats on modern Poem of the Day.

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Edward Kofi Louis 19 November 2016

Playing jacks! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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Colleen Courtney 15 May 2014

So much feeling in this heartfelt write.

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Sharon Olds

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