Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Dry Spell Comments

Rating: 5.0

Wounds gape in the rueful earth
Seeds of qualm succumb to fear.
Current crops' resilience wanes
Cracks open tearing deep, deep down
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Danny Draper
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Karen Deeks 07 March 2012

Scuse my language but ruddy brilliant! You started in nature (beautiful and bounteous lost) you then showed the cycle of giving back to the earth to replenish. Then a great line (uneasy ancestral bones) . Basically we've stripped my lady bare of her forests for farming and concrete. The geneva connection (clever) Oh I do understand the flow and meaning and it really is so clever and close to the bone. We use and abuse our garden until there is nothing left for politicians to fight over. The long dry spell indeed. Fantastic

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Lenore Lee 16 February 2012

This is amazing and passionate. I especially like these lines: Natural resources dwindle Wealth has made us poorer yet & Empire seizes resources at will Invisible are its ignorant and poor as Wretches gormandise needily on admiration and sway The rights of the individual assured with impunity This poem is a cry-out against government control and communism and there are many intelligent individuals out there who whole-heartedly agree with it, me being one of them.

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Kiama, New South Wales, Australia
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