Saturday, April 2, 2016

Sonnet 37 Polliwogs Comments

Rating: 5.0

Love grows as love goes
like polliwogs to frogs,
whose wiggliness no longer shows
in leaping out from logs.
...
Read full text

Barry Middleton
COMMENTS
Poppy Miller 04 April 2016

What is a polliwog Barry?

2 0 Reply
Barry Middleton 04 April 2016

A tadpole, the first stage of becoming a frog. They are quite wiggly.

0 0
Poppy Miller 04 April 2016

Oh I love this one so much! You tell it just the way it is. (I do wish I was a gaudy lily.)

2 0 Reply
Dimitrios Galanis 02 April 2016

So beautiful the alliteration, assonance of ''l'' in the first stanza, Barry.

3 0 Reply
Barry Middleton 02 April 2016

Written many years ago. Though not I have run out of the older poems and so whatever comes next is new. I still have a small but growing backlog. I have always liked this poem too.

0 0
Close
Error Success