Saturday, July 26, 2008

Saving His Life Comments

Rating: 4.7

She began unconsciously;
the habit sprang from her heart
and manifested itself in reality
without the bother of decision
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Christine Austin Cole
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Michael Harmon 18 June 2009

The double-entendre title, with the reader's initial assumption of its more prevalent meaning, develops through all of the passionate details of a lover's intensely-focused attention, and then, with the restatement of the title, which would be a predictable let-down in a more prosaic piece, culminates in the revelation of its second meaning, completed unexpected! Beautifully crafted!

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You have breathed a cosmos into the finiteness of the page. It is such a well-knit work that its hard to select a particular verse. However after journeying through the rest of the poem there is a poignant culmination here “ She began unconsciously; the habit an insistence of her soul. So innocuously you have made this poem a masterpiece

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James B. Earley 28 July 2008

A brilliant love song........passionately sung!

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Ency Bearis 26 July 2008

nice poem...well written..thanks Ency Bearis

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Christine Natale 26 July 2008

Very well done! It's greatly refreshing to read a poem written in the third person, instead of the first. It makes the ideas and feelings more universal. Thank you!

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