Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Admonitions To A Special Person Comments

Rating: 3.5

Watch out for power,
for its avalanche can bury you,
snow, snow, snow, smothering your mountain.
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Anne Sexton
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Auguste Hill 18 October 2020

I've loved Anne Sexton for many years but I heard this poem for the first time only today on a podcast, The Paris Review's. Then not understanding some of the lines I looked it up. Thanks for posting Admonitions; A.S. gives me food for thought always.

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Obianuju Ndedigwe 02 September 2017

I love this

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* Sunprincess * 29 August 2015

....an excellent write..my favorite line -★ I do not believe a word I have said

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Gangadharan Nair Pulingat 29 January 2015

Beautiful poem on snow and likes much.

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Jaime Banks 11 January 2010

Wow...I love this. I like this better than most of her other poems from this era...

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