Friday, August 29, 2014

Lament Comments

Rating: 4.8

Your dying was a difficult enterprise.
First, petty things took up your energies,
The small but clustering duties of the sick,
Irritant as the cough's dry rhetoric.
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Thom Gunn
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Bernard F. Asuncion 24 May 2019

One of the greatest poems by Thom Gunn.......................

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Edward Kofi Louis 24 May 2019

Lamentation! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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Kumarmani Mahakul 24 May 2019

A poem with sadness is touchingly delineated.

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Dr Antony Theodore 24 May 2019

To the Emergency Room. That frown, that frown: I'd never seen such rage in you before As when they wheeled you through the swinging door. experiences in life. tony

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Sylvia Frances Chan 24 May 2019

This long poem makes me very sad. Its tone is true melancholic and yet I appreciate him since he has worded brilliantly this poem about true emotive things/. CONGRATS to the family for being chosen as The Modern Poem Of The Day. May he rest in peace. Amen.

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Thom Gunn

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