Monday, April 13, 2009

Love Hostage Comments

Rating: 5.0

Why does he keep me hostage
If he doesn’t even want me?
Why does he make me suffer
If he doesn’t care how I feel?
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Sonya Florentino
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Cindy Kreiner Sera 12 May 2009

Love is the Hostage, filling the giver with pain, hoping - always hoping...such sadness this poem brings - written in tears....

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Oh, and there can never be enough questions, in life or in poetry (aren't they the same to us?) . Answers, though, are few and far between. That being said, keep asking your questions, Sonya, you just may find your answers!

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How painful to be so out of control, isn't it? This is so resoundingly true, I felt a well-known arrow pierce my heart when I read it. Absolutely marvelous! :)

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Michelle Melody 22 April 2009

A 10 Sonya... Memory of Love is the real Hostage keeper, to fill your life with new memories makes you free. Heartfelt poem x

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Alison Cassidy 20 April 2009

Your final couplet is a perfect coda to this melancholy poem about love's cruelty. You have a good feel for poetic form Sonya. I wonder though, if a few question marks might have improved this? love, Allie ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

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Laurie Hill 14 April 2009

Such a sadness, such yearning, such pain. Your words bring those feelings to life so very well...........................

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Ency Bearis 14 April 2009

such a wonderful instrospection...well narrated with emotion..good job on the translation..great poem..10

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Sonya Florentino 13 April 2009

This is a loose interpretation of another poem I wrote in Tagalog entitled 'Bakit Pa? '

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Sonya Florentino

Manila, Philippines (residing NYC)
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