Friday, January 3, 2003

Round And Round Comments

Rating: 3.5

After a long and wretched flight
That stretched from daylight into night,
Where babies wept and tempers shattered
And the plane lurched and whiskey splattered
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Vikram Seth
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Rose Marie Juan-austin 01 December 2021

A well crafted story embellished with nice rhyme and great images.The ultimate stanza is thought provoking.

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Seamus O Brian 25 February 2018

I am ambivalent toward this piece. I can certainly appreciate how a small incident within the context of the ordinary can have an extraordinary emotional impact. I think the author portrays that well. And I think the rhyme and rhythm are not in and of themselves distracting. I just find that the emotional import hinted at does not translate as fully through the construction. A very nice piece, though.

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Glen Kappy 25 February 2018

I liked this. The rhyming is skillful overall. The form is pleasing. And the narrative is well-told, setting us up with wretched flight in the opening stanza to appreciate the happy memory the little red bag touches off in the last. And then the surprise of who it really belongrd to. -GK

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Ravi Kopra 25 February 2018

I thought in this poem was some matter What I found was just empty clatter Of hollow words weaving a shallow thought Of connecting a red suitcase with his love past This poems stands pretty small Of no interest to anyone at all First two lines tell the poet is straining to rhyme, daylight, night, flight He failed - the battered poem clattered and finally nothing mattered

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Edward Kofi Louis 25 February 2018

I knew that bag! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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Bisy Untan 25 February 2018

I love this poem very much.The beauty of the words arranged in the right order pours out the magnificence of a flight travel to the opposite side of the globe along with a little sentimentality and fun.CONGRATULATIONS.

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Richard Wlodarski 25 February 2018

Simply beautiful. Creatively sentimental. Very well executed.

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Bernard F. Asuncion 25 February 2018

Vikram, such a great poem of the day... congrats for being chosen... a big 10++++

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Ahmed Gumaa Siddiek 29 January 2016

I knew that bag. It must be hers. We hadnt met in seven years! And as the metal plates squealed and clattered My happy memories chimed and chattered. An old man pulled it of the Claim. My bags appeared: I did the same. This is the last stanza where the funny story ended. It is a beautiful poem well rhymed and versed..

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* Sunprincess * 16 August 2015

............very nice, beautiful rhythm ★

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Mohammad Akmal Nazir 02 April 2011

It was really a simple poem yet enjoyable and attractive. The coincidene made you think what happened years ago. Great imagery. Excellent work. Thanks for sharing...

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Mohammad Akmal Nazir 02 April 2011

It was really a simple poem yet enjoyable and attractive. The coincidene made you think what happened years ago. Great imagery. Excellent work. Thanks for sharing...

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Caterpillar MC 08 October 2008

Simple, spirited, scenic....Thank you for sharing.

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Onida 10 September 2006

A truly simple poem.very artistic.well done! !

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Nibedita Deb 16 October 2005

I liked the simplicity. Indeed, love becomes inherent to every the smallest phases of our lives! ...

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Pradeep Dhavakumar 07 May 2005

Nice subject.Well written.Thank you.

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Vikram Seth

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