12: 04 p.m.
Thinking affectionately of a dear friend as he is now
sitting with his younger sister and family, celebrating
the festival of light with them.
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This is a delightful poem. The good humor and good wishes you are sending abroad to your friends fan out to include your readers. It's done with the utmost delicacy and directness. It gives one a renewed faith in language when it can embrace distant friends with a heart-felt sharing that collapses distances. This is truly one of the blessings of poetry. It's great you have friends who can appreciate your poetry. (I especially like the way the last stanza brings the poem full circle with the title being also the last words,)
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This is a delightful poem. The good humor and good wishes you are sending abroad to your friends fan out to include your readers. It's done with the utmost delicacy and directness. It gives one a renewed faith in language when it can embrace distant friends with a heart-felt sharing that collapses distances. This is truly one of the blessings of poetry. It's great you have friends who can appreciate your poetry. (I especially like the way the last stanza brings the poem full circle with the title being also the last words,)