Monday, May 5, 2008

Green Soldiers Comments

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The Armies marched with banging drums
That made ill the streams, made black the dreams.
The Armies marched with cracking horns,
Each soldier robed in robes of green.
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Floyd Zimmerman
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Floyd Zimmerman 12 September 2009

They are jealous people, my dim friend haha :)

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Paul Hansford 12 September 2009

This one sounds as if it ought to be good, but I didn't get the symbolism you appear to be using. Who are the soldiers with green robes and green swords, and who is 'she'? Am I just dim, or could you help the reader out here?

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Jen Capaldi 27 August 2009

you involve great imagination and symbolism in your work. you have a gifted creative mind Jen

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~ Jon London ~ 08 May 2008

Your use of visual imagery sits the reader down, and sooths them into wanting more.........The words - That made ill the streams, made black the dreams - great line. Best wishes to you...keep this up, you have a gift that many would love to have. jon

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Stacy Bea 07 May 2008

like wiliam im not also big on the rhyming, but the meanings are so heartfelt and deep i can see past it

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Rebecca Mummery 06 May 2008

Hey :) Particularly like this poem out of all your poems so far. 'Their drums rung around her ears, Their trophies hung within her tears' < Like those lines.

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