Double Face Comments

This is a beautiful poem on reality having insightful inscription. Appropriate title. Nice penmanship. I appreciate it.10

Excellent with beautiful descriptive expressions...ending line lifts the poem to the top....very interesting and inspiring Valsa

Reading this poem actually reminded me of a small but very significant incident that happened when I was just nineteen and was in the second year of my college. Our head of the department asked me to read Baudelaire and said - 'You will be appalled'.. I went ahead and read two of his poems from 'Fleur du Mal', and went back to tell him - 'They were not appalling at all'.. He simply smiled and said read Shakespeare's 'Sonnet 116', and Shelley's 'Ode to the West Wind' before reading Baudelaire. I did it, and I found how apalling Baudelaire were. Your poem is just like that in its emphasis on the CONTRASTING images.. The different images of people from different sections of the society actually emphasises the misery of the poor and the excess of the rich. A powerful, and strikingly beautiful write Valsa ma'am. Thank you very much for sharing....

Reading this poem actually reminded me of a small but very significant incident that happened when I was just nineteen and was in the second year of my college. Our head of the department asked me to read Baudelaire and said - 'You will be appalled'.. I went ahead and read two of his poems from 'Fleur du Mal', and went back to tell him - 'They were not appalling at all'.. He simply smiled and said read Shakespeare's 'Sonnet 116', and Shelley's 'Ode to the West Wind' before reading Baudelaire. I did it, and I found how apalling Baudelaire were. Your poem is just like that in its emphasis on the CONTRASTING images.. The different images of people from different sections of the society actually emphasises the misery of the poor and the excess of the rich. A powerful, and strikingly beautiful write Valsa ma'am. Thank you very much for sharing.

A painful contrast of our society, nicely described, the distance between the two results in violence. A very thoughtful write.

So wide is the disparity between have and have not, it becomes a common sight to see it has been, it is and it will be irrespective of sensible feelings......Valsa......a very thoughtful and touching poem scripted brilliantly....

The have and the have not, this is a common divide that society has put a lid on for us all. The rich just like the poor can't get a good night's sleep. They are to busy trying to get richer or at the least keep what they have. The poor on the other hand is constantly trying to dig themselves out of the mire to try to obtain some sense of dignity. Better though is to be content with what we have as long as we are satisfied and happy. A thoughtful and inspiring write again.

a good poem the rich get richer the poor get poorer

Such a stark contrast. The rich and governments should do more to help the poor.

Dark side of life expressed so beautifully. This sorry state stirs us so often. As a poet your sensitivity captures it so well.

The rich just get richer, I hope one day I will be rich so I can share it around. Yet knowing it will not go far....

A bleak picture of reality so beautifully written, a sad reflection on society!

Crazy good. I love it.

Sometimes I take away my glance From the dismembered corpses of the dead a deeply moving poem, sad, the divide between god's own image!

Oh! what an observation of this stark divide! ! ! blend of imagination and observation... your descriptive power is great...one hope is there for everyone of us, as haves and have nots are in 2 disciplines: at social status, and at moral status...there's a need to see at least at some end we have an edge! ! ! thanks for a deep poem! ! !

There will always be a great divide between haves and have nots. A beautiful poem on class difference.

Its really a Double Face and the divide is very great! With anguish I read the poem and wondered whether there is any redemption! A fantastic poem, Valsa!

The divide, reality of life, is well presented. The statistician says on the average it is ok. Thank you for a beautiful poem of reality.

A divide which can and should be annihilated. But the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, those at the top continue to prey on those at the bottom - a disgraceful state of affairs, and very well described by you here Valsa. Well done.

This makes me sad and yet in each land and between nations the divide grows. Some call the divide aspiration, I think of it from exasperation and know that we are our own salvation and in our hands the answer and our deafness to the question.