Monday, March 29, 2010

For My Lover, Returning To His Wife Comments

Rating: 3.2

She is all there.
She was melted carefully down for you
and cast up from your childhood,
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Anne Sexton
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Poetrysucksass 16 May 2022

I hate poetry so much

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Anil Kumar Panda 18 January 2019

'She is solid. As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off. '..is so nice. Sometimes it gives immense pain if you lost something valuable. Loved it. Thanks for sharing.10++++

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Edward Kofi Louis 18 January 2019

For the fuse inside her! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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Adrian Flett 18 January 2019

A poem of longing for something once had but now lost. 'Let's face it, I have been momentary'

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Bernard F. Asuncion 18 January 2019

A touching poem by Anne Sexton...................

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C F 18 January 2019

One can feel the intensity of her helpless anger through out the poem - chilling!

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Susan 07 August 2018

I first read this poem in, I think, the New Yorker and it has haunted me ever since. Stunning and even heart-breaking imagery that has, apparently, burrowed itself into some place deep in me. Brings me to tears every time I read it......

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Anne Sexton

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