Tuesday, November 29, 2011

At Sea Comments

Rating: 3.0

It is not through weeping,
but all evening the pale blue eye
on your most photogenic side has kept
its own unfathomable tide. Like the boy
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Simon Armitage
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Raghurama Raju 12 October 2020

The sea is an eternal lamentation . Comparing it with a tearful eye , is great .

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Dr Antony Theodore 30 June 2020

They wait and whisper in the air-lock of the lobby with patches, eyewash, the truth about mascara. a very good poem. tony

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Keith Brown 06 May 2020

I wonder if Simon ever bothers to reply to comments? .

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Keith Brown 06 May 2020

A well written poem, lots of images, as simples mascara infraction or. Abuse my thoughts the latter only the poet knows

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Dr Antony Theodore 16 August 2019

held out a huge finger, lifted atoms of dust with the point of a tissue and imagined slivers of hair in the oil on the cornea. We are both in the dark, but I go on.. very good poem. tony

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Dr Antony Theodore 26 June 2019

I am steadying the ointment that will bite like an onion, piping a line of cream while avoiding the pupil and in no time it is glued shut like a bad mussel. a very fine poem. tony

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izzy09 17 May 2019

sickage this poem is sickage

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