Saint, Sinner, Lover Comments

Had seen better ones....

Wowww. How love can bring poetry out of a man! This poem is sheer brilliance. You have put your feelings of heart-break in a beautiful flow of words. The reader can certainly feel your pain because you have written this poem from the depths of your heart. Without being melodramatic, you have expressed the intensity of your emotions. And there's a flavor of philosophy too that runs through the poem. When all things fall apart, we look for love...undeniably love is the most powerful emotion. To love n lose are life-changing experiences. One of your best poems. Loved it.

WoW! ! ! ! Holy cow! ! ! I know such exclamations are not at all literary but those are the exclamations that tore out of me on finishing this piece [if finished I ever will be]. It has stature this poem about a love that stays and aches and burns even when the lover has gone either by death or by choice. It carries that twisting pain of loss, that edge of anger, that overwhelming desire to touch, hear, smell, and see the lover again just one more time and one more time again for the rest of life. Magnificent writing. There! That's what I should have cried out instead of WoW! Magnificent! ! ! But it is a painful poem, writhing in its agony... one can't yell magnificent at a funeral. I shall read this poem again and again. Souren.

You are amazing......do u know m learning a lot from your poetry.....they all are amazing......far different from other....take me somewhere else where there are too many angles with many different views of life....Wonderful poem....thank you for sharing :)

Searing verses you have penned. You have a very vivid and relatable voice.

Neena, you are the subject of all my nightmares You are the dream I had dreamt of since I learnt how to dream. Amazing.

The closing parallel in sound but contradiction in meaning of I DO and ADIEU is too painful to bear it's as if the genius of language were teaching us a bitter lesson in how we humans build the illusion of transcendent love that the real world can never support. But I still applaud this passionate poem of commitment and fidelity to an unrequited love. It is a measure of our humanity that we surrender so completely to the heart's truth (The opposite view, which is unworthy, was expressed in a 1970s song: IF YOU CAN'T BE WITH THE ONE YOU LOVE, LOVE THE ONE YOU'RE WITH.) // Your poem with the secondary theme of addictions reminds me of the struggles of a hero in Dostoevsky, and that is a resonant connection. The individual's suffering however painful in the present will refine his soul. This is no consolation for the pain of ADIEU. Both the present pain and the letting go of its cause serve to deepen the soul, or perhaps make the soul recognize the varied and large range of experience in which it exists. This poem about a vividly present sorrow is really a poem directed toward the future.

Verily, a bold confession of a saint, a past of a sinner and the moves of a lover. Loved reading and it

Interesting comment Debasish, but unfortunately I couldn't really understand what did you love? My poem or the part you quoted from your own poem Sunflower? ? You left me guessing there buddy? ? Anyways, thanks for reading my poem and penning such a wonderful critique of it... Merci beaucoup :)

I fortify memories with love and rhyme, I fight with a pen against Tyrant time, Love i suppress - not a heinous crime, Platonic it is; but sometime declines. Loved it.

i read the poem several times yet, i feel like reading it again....

So nice and heart touching poem... Many many thanks dear poet

Outstanding poem and I think this is one of your best poems.......Dipped in philosophy, garmented with silken words and penned with soul searching imagination this poem is indeed a masterpiece. Thanks for sharing, Loved it.

A poem intensely passionate and strikingly beautiful........ confessing your raw addictions and reiterating your greatest passion for the cynosure of your eyes.... Neena! But there is a tone of melancholy and regret that you are squandering your life over your addictions! Nothing is beyond recovery! If you wish you, can weed out unwanted habits if they harm your body and soul! As a poem, I loved it!

You've written an excellent love poem. You have my respect.

The fish and soul analogy actually comes from Indian Metaphysics where the soul is compared to the fish and the body is compared to water.. There are many more references in the poem, ranging from, as I mentioned ancient Indian philosophical texts, to Shakespeare and Baudelaire even... I hopefully would soon add a poet's note to this poem to clarify what my intentions were with this poem....

This is a heartfelt poem. You did a nice job of carrying your fish-water metaphor throughout the poem. The writing is again very raw and difficult, reflecting the intensity of addiction and young infatuation. I particularly appreciated the ending... A brilliant play on words! Adieu!

now.. I can tell you about your poem - surely a well written poem -.. but I'll do it through an email. ok?

again.. I had to check at Wiki for 'Moksha': In Indian religions and Indian philosophy, moksha (Sanskrit: मोक्ष mokṣa) , also called vimoksha, vimukti and mukti, means emancipation, liberation or release. In the soteriological and eschatological sense, it connotes freedom from saṃsāra, the cycle of death and rebirth. In the epistemological and psychological sense, moksha connotes freedom, self-realization and self-knowledge

first, let me say, Souren, that when you use terms which are not well known by many, you should add a note, explaining their meaning.. ;) Betta - from Wikipedia [ I had to check, as I didn't know what a Betta is.. :) ]: it is a large genus of small, often colorful, freshwater ray-finned fishes in the gourami family (Osphronemidae) . By far the best known Betta species, however, is B. splendens, the Siamese fighting fish.