Monday, January 13, 2003

Early In The Morning Comments

Rating: 3.9

While the long grain is softening
in the water, gurgling
over a low stove flame, before
the salted Winter Vegetable is sliced
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Li-Young Lee
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Bijay Kant Dubey 31 October 2018

This poem is pages from the parental diary and it is a tribute too which also speaks of Mother's Day and Father's Day and also the feelings connected with. It is a mom and dad's poem; a mom and dad's memory picitured through.

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Michael Cochrane 15 May 2016

Very lovely poem early in the morning such memory of ones mother and father I like very much Michael Cochrane new poet.37242

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Angela Topping 22 October 2006

This is a really lovely understated poem. I have just introduced a year 10 class to it and they loved it. So do I.

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Michael Tonkin 04 April 2005

I have just discovered Li-Young Lee and I shall not let him go. Oh what poetry.

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Michael Shepherd 18 March 2005

This took my breath away...before I shouted with joy...

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Mya Meriweather 19 September 2004

The images near the end of his father loving to uno his mother's hair is my favorite part of the poem.

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