Friday, January 3, 2003

Belly Good Comments

Rating: 3.2

A heap of wheat, says the Song of Songs
but I've never seen wheat in a pile.
Apples, potatoes, cabbages, carrots
make lumpy stacks, but you are sleek
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Marge Piercy
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Bharati Nayak 05 December 2018

The poem is so unique in its topic as well as presentation.Let me quote from the poem- - - - In anxiety I clutch you with nervous fingers as if you were a purse full of calm. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - You are our female shame and sunburst strength.

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bentley 26 August 2018

This . idk how you people like this.

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Kumarmani Mahakul 03 October 2017

Beautiful poem with nice penmanship. Thanks and congratulations for being selected as the poem of the day.

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Edward Kofi Louis 03 October 2017

Nervous Fingers! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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Bernard F. Asuncion 03 October 2017

Such an excellent work by Marge Piercy👍👍👍

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Susan Williams 01 November 2015

She handles words like the most fluid of paints

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Colleen Courtney 18 May 2014

I adore this brilliant poem! I shall no longer feel ashamed of my middle age belly!

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a person 23 September 2018

because of a poem? um ok

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Marge Piercy

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