I can close my eyes and be 12 again
Fishing at the pond with my only friend
Drifting on through the dating years
Through the heartbreaks, he'd wipe the tears
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This is a mixed bag for anyone to comment on, because you can virtually give it any number from 6 to 10 and argue in some just manner for either. In my view though, you can't give it either a 6 or a 10. Nor can I given my own public standards give it a 9. This means it is either a 7 or 8 for me.8 means I recommend it 7 means I don't . The writer has chosen not to give us a vote
here and that's fine. But in this case, I'm going to recommend this poem to others
with the 8 because the deficiencies are soothed by the ending. To a reader,
that's a lot.
GW62
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This is a mixed bag for anyone to comment on, because you can virtually give it any number from 6 to 10 and argue in some just manner for either. In my view though, you can't give it either a 6 or a 10. Nor can I given my own public standards give it a 9. This means it is either a 7 or 8 for me.8 means I recommend it 7 means I don't . The writer has chosen not to give us a vote here and that's fine. But in this case, I'm going to recommend this poem to others with the 8 because the deficiencies are soothed by the ending. To a reader, that's a lot. GW62