Friday, January 3, 2003

Guide To The Other Gallery Comments

Rating: 3.1

This is the hall of broken limbs
Where splintered marble athletes lie
Beside the arms of cherubim.
Nothing is ever thrown away.
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Dana Gioia
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Terry Craddock 12 August 2014

An appealing thought provoking poem, I presume the 'case of antique wood' in the room with 'such a peaceful view' is a coffin, I think I prefer to be dust in the wind and avoid this collection. :)

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Leslie Philibert 12 August 2014

Excellent write, from an, I assume, established poet..

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Liliana ~el 12 August 2014

Very descriptive. Intense, sinister, dark. Depth of reality without hope, light, nor vision for change. Well written scene and mentality.

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Douglas Scotney 12 August 2013

Not able to go. Why these places can leave you depressed.

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Kevin Patrick 12 August 2012

This appeals to the emotions abandon the perceptions of poetic verse and just read the text, it heightens the senses further if you just read and allow it to be whatever you want it to be.

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Walter Durk 26 September 2007

I like this poem, but the rhyme scheme is not very appealing to me.

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Dana Gioia

Dana Gioia

Hawthorne, California
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