Thursday, April 8, 2010

Goodbye To Tolerance Comments

Rating: 2.8

Genial poets, pink-faced
earnest wits—
you have given the world
some choice morsels,
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Denise Levertov
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Edward Kofi Louis 19 August 2016

Choice morsels! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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Susan Williams 19 August 2016

Diatribes are known for their intolerance- - makes it difficult to tolerate them

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Ratnakar Mandlik 19 August 2016

then how our fanatic tears would flow and mingle for joy. an intriguing write, not easy to comprehend. Thanks for sharing.

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John Richter 19 August 2016

I don't know how this poem makes me feel. The narrator is certainly angry. And amidst some very powerful versus lay a bunch of tripe. For example, tolerance, what crimes have been committed in your name.... What a non-stop timeless phrase... But it's surrounded by crap like cherished worms of your dispassion.... I give it a B+

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