The End Of Days Comments

I am glad you enjoyed it, Anjandev

Thank you very much for the 10! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

-I cannot thank you enough for your comment and

Part 2- - PH cut me off! Anyway thank you for reading my work!

Chinedu- -you always encourage me to reach higher go further - -that's the definition of a true friend of literature! ! ! - -I cannot thank you enough for your comments and for your examples of powerful writing. Remain blessed as well! ! !

The way the climate change and rate of pollution is going I believe the world will die fairly suddenly- -but like you not with a bang- - that delicate balance once imbalanced will not waver to and fro- I believe it will tank in a matter of four or five years and people will be trying to live underground or on other planets but most of us will die of the incredible heat or freeze.

Thank you for reading and commenting on this piece. I appreciate it!

Thank you, Geetha, cycles... yes, life comes and goes in cycles and seasons... good times and bad times, happy times and sad times... they all come and they all go. Thank you for always reading with a perceptive eye.

Oh, please do make yourself at home here! Not only with my work but with all the members' work here. You are such a jewel- -you sharpen my wits, my thoughts. And please feel free to bring up what you see as lacks, or missteps, or whatnot. You have a wonderful blessed day too, my new friend! :)

By the way, I am writing a series of books. One of the characters is called Mr. Red. Spooky, huh! ! ! And another by the way, I shall never call you Red Idiot. Never. Even if you explain the story behind that name. But I wouldn't mind knowing why - -subtle hint, subtle hint, subtle hint!

Yes yes yes yes yes! ! ! ! You are onto what I was trying rather sneakily to get across through emotions and images and word sounds and so on. Oh we could talk for hours on the mysterious author encoding a message into his work vs the reader's interpretation is as valid if not more than the author's intention! ! !

I love what you are getting out of this piece. That is what literature is supposed to do. Get into the readers' heads- broaden their horizons- get them to enjoy their souls. While you see deep into my words here than I intended, I believe that your interpretation is as valid if not more than my intent. I am sitting here wishing I had created your reactions deliberately! ! ! You are fascinatingly deep, Mr. Red. I learn more and more about my poem and writing the more you delve.

* serve and not ''server''... Got autocorrected!

You caught me out. I love words and the sounds of words and the delicate differences in the meaings of similar words and the pairing of words for effect and for the rhyming of words to get an emotional impact into the reader.

Reply Part 2. The day by day etc was me trying for the passage of time and yet the continuity, the eternity, of it, the similarity of the years yet the glory of their dissimilarity. Years pass so quickly but years also come to replace them. There is comfort in the repetitive, mundane aspect - more so to the person whose life span is closing.

Part 3. The young, rightfully so, adventure in the days of their young life, play in it, denigrate it for its repetitiveness, mundaneness [I like to make up words too] Branch to branch to branch was me trying to get readers' eyes following the bouncing bird as it journeyed through the bush outside my window! Looking so playful, looking so young, looking so healthy.

Mr. Red, you are a writer's dream. You better be careful, we'll all be clamoring at your door, begging for critiques at this rate! Seriously, you excel at Poetry Mechanics 451 and Literary Sense and Sensibility 581 and How To Get A Writer Motivated To Better His Work 601... Are you a teacher? If so, your students are blessed indeed and to be envied.

Ahhhhh. It is ridiculous in a good way! Whew! ! Had me looking for cover there for a moment! Thank you for delving into the matter of the refrain in this poem. I had some real qualms about using it... it would be so easy for readers to skim over the phrase, thinking it was the same old same old. But you caught on what was going on so quickly- -the increasing narrowing of the focus. Thank you for the depth of your consideration of the attributes of this poem, Mr. Red.

Ridiculous? ? ! ! Uh-oh! Am I in trouble? ? ? ! ! ! Hopefully this is the modern way of saying that it is the opposite of ridiculous! ! ! I shall sneak to the next comment, my fingers crossed.... :)

Nectarish, hmmm? I like new words- we should be free to create them because words are our tools, we are not the tools of words. Thank you for your comment and for reading. I always return the honor of reading who reads me- to do otherwise would be arrogance. Thank you again.

I sure hope you are right! ! ! ! Then I would be very long-lived! ! ! Love your comment poetry- -I hope you know how all of us are honored to receive these. Kind of like Valentines throughout the year! Thank you, best of friends. It was a blessed day when I met you on PH! ! ! !

I feel the same, blessed and honored to know you, read you and have you as my friend. From the very first lines you wrote for my lonely moon, I knew you were different, blessed by gods of human kindness and talent and that we would be friends for good and very soon and that I would no longer have to imagine the world as I feel it and see it alone. Bless you, now and always, for your understanding, kindness and compassion.