Heart Of Ice Comments

to my April showcase. thanks! and i'll include your Poet's Notes. bri :)

Another wonderful poem. You must have a very compassionate soul to be able to describe, with such emotion, the personal anguish this woman was experiencing. While reading this poem I thought you were writing about your own experience. Excellent.

noreen, this time i read it without pause, and the only comment i'll make this time is it goes to MyPoemLIst. bri :)

This is such a powerful and moving poem. Isn't ironic that a person's heartfelt, truly unselfish love for another is displayed in situations that are so traumatic they can scarcely appreciate the emotion that motivates them? That's when we must recall that good times and happy events also evoke true love. But in this poem the woman's love of her husband is so strong that she is grabbed by an emotional coma that parallels his physical coma. Your poem gives us incontrovertible proof of the scope and intensity of the bonds that are created by intimacy and tenderness.

Good job, you have told the story well. Reminds me a bit of mine - Cicatrix - Adeline I too did a double-take on the 'leprous'

, , , , , a good poem this is, , , thanks for sharing, , ,

'That she inhaled a breath so deep. A deathlike state a waking sleep, ' - Nice!

Words of faith, Noreen! Breathing out she will live again, of course, with God everything is possible! Blessings! !

A lovely penning with a firm belief on the power of love. Until his touch her breath releases as it breaks the ice to pieces........ very nice

hi, read your poem 'heart of ice', its very sad but beautifully written, thank you for commenting on'yvonne' and my humble effort at a tribute to seamus h, kind regards and happy new year, paddy d

Only warmth of love can break the ice on the heart, a passionate write

A Great write Noreen. Beautiful observation you have portrayed here, husband is in coma but she feel herself in coma. Her feelings are beautifully put up here. Loved reading it.

Noreen, i'll start with a complaint; i figure you are strong enough to take it. and we are fast friends, right? not fast THATWAY! in this line: Her leprous soul feel joy or pain. i don't understand its purpose here. i think the poem would do well without it and there would be no need to replace it. anyway, pain doesn't make a great rhyme with again (at least not in my mind) . granted there are several non-rhyming coupled lines, but i like all of THEM. on a brighter note: Until his touch her breath releases as it breaks the ice to pieces....................i LOVE this for the meaning and for the rhyming. thanks for sharing. :) bri i looked at this poem because, seeing the title, i thought it would be about ME! darn.

this is really good, : -) that's good that he recovered.

I understand it very well, because emotion and life is like that...ice and cold cant be separated if they are...they are gone..gone forever...because warm can live in ice, and no fire is cold_Soul

Interesting observation......not sure my heart would react in a similar way in a similar circumstance, I'm not only a believer in 'the Self (Soul) ' but also the divine and from my point of view there's hardly any difference between the two; hence, if the beloved is in a coma, this is a reflection of divine will, and that being the case, would my heart turn to ice? I think not for time after time, ITS love continuously warms me.

That is the bond of true love that sans physical concerns... A love tale told for us with a note indeed.

A highly sensitive and insightful piece, Noreen. Well done.

sometimes one can live and be dead inside. life can be cruel and unforgiving. good write

To see the man who has been her alterego and source of all support lying in coma is a sight so unbearable for any wife! The deeper their attachment, the more tortuous turns the other's suffering! Such feelings of utter helplessness will disappear, once the person recovers! Great write Noreen!