As The Sparrow Comments

I am sure truer words were spoken, but not so eloquently or succinctly!

We have to sacrifice life to save lives have to be cruel to return the peaceful kind Yeah; this is the world where every wickedness is shooting out like the weeds always sometime this wickedness is becoming powerful but if we want to uproot theses wicked weeds we need to be cruel soldiers to devastate these

Excellent write, fit to be included in POD

We are all children. If we believe in searching for what is rare and fine in life, we can't help but hate the inertia, the indulgence that treats one's own life as something expendable. The ocean is just a mirror in which he sees his own disgust.

Written in a confused state of mind where thoughts were not in aligned/ synced with the subject, It happens with everyone and it happened here.

Nice. But you of mortal constition does not give life So you of flesh and blood must not take whats not your There is a higher power who life and he taketh He decides when euthasia is the choice he make

I ditto my earlier comment.

I did not grasp in totality what is contained from To give to scenes. But I understand what comes after. The voice of the poems does not go with the trend; what is expected; what is the norm or fashionable..

Not impressed with the first line of the poem, but the contradictions juxtaposed in the last few lines seem to be meaningful.

o give life you must take life, very telling verses. tony

what IS this ex-postal worker (like me) saying? ? ? ? ? goofy, if ya ask me! ! ! ! bri :)

Wonderfully crafted life song rich with human limitations, flights of imagery and expiating in the aftermath.

An excellent write by Charles Bukowski.......

Bukowski prevails every word..his soul clung every letter

HIS WORDS ARE CAREFULLY DRAWN OUT FROM HIS SOUL. SO TRUTHFULLY TOLD.

our grief falls flat and hollow upon the billion-blooded sea Beautiful poem shared. 10+++

'As our grief falls'! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

War, peace, love and hate life and death all complex issues with no black and white solution. Beauty of this poem lies in stark realization of some dark colors overlapping bright colors of life.

A brief poem by Bukowski makes all think about life in comparison with that a sparrow as far as what one has to do to a child in a philosophic way!

a poem of dark sentiments yet when fully understood they tell a truth? ..........superbly penned.