Friday, January 3, 2003

The Embrace Comments

Rating: 3.5

You weren't well or really ill yet either;
just a little tired, your handsomeness
tinged by grief or anticipation, which brought
to your face a thoughtful, deepening grace.
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Mark Doty
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Chinedu Dike 28 October 2019

Well expressed thoughts and feelings. An insightful work of art. Thanks for sharing, Mark. Remain enriched.

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Ratnakar Mandlik 08 February 2016

A meaningful and thought provoking soliloquy. with steadily flowing emotions. Thanks for sharing.10 points.

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Susan Williams 08 February 2016

Excellent excellent writing. It is like we are overhearing his thoughts- not like he is busily constructing poetry for an outsider to read- -very natural flow and bears such confusion, such pain, such love, such a search for truth

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M Asim Nehal 08 February 2016

Nice thought provoking poem...Why so difficult, remembering the actual look of you? Without a photograph, without strain?

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Edward Kofi Louis 08 February 2016

To embrace the muse of love and to respect nature. Thanks for sharing.

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* Sunprincess * 31 May 2014

.............a beautiful tribute to a loved one....

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Mark Doty

Mark Doty

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