Friday, January 6, 2006

Days Like These Comments

Rating: 5.0

On days like these there is no other song
just the soft duet of gull and sea
no perfume sweeter than the scent
of salt upon the warm gentle breeze
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Bill Mitton
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Joseph Daly 07 January 2006

This is a wonderful and beautifly worded piece Bill. It reeks of English style, in its metaphor (The sea) and its structure. I have, sometimes, railed against the English style for its parochialism, but this work cannot be seen as that. At one time, poets, painters, noveslist, saw the seaa a metaphor for British power. You seem to use it in the way that some have used the image of a flowing stream: to illustrate a changing world. Wonderful, Bill, simply wonderful.

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Ernestine Northover 06 January 2006

Worth a 10 again Bill. Lovely expressed write, beautiful words woven together so well. Love Ernestine XXX

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Amberlee Spurling 06 January 2006

Very well said, I loved it! ! You have such a feeling for this poem! I hope that you keep this up you just might have a new fan :)

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