Tuesday, June 2, 2015

The Fist Comments

Rating: 4.7

The fist clenched round my heart
loosens a little, and I gasp
brightness; but it tightens
again. When have I ever not loved
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Derek Walcott
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Brook Renwick 12 December 2020

The abyss is a terrifying place! From my experience, love takes us to a better place.

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Mahtab Bangalee 10 December 2020

When have I ever not loved the pain of love? ....past love to mania.~ Excellent; if I have nothing then I am not worry to lose something; I have no love then the hate is beyond of all question; love in phobia ~ so, slack the fist of heart and grasp the ungripped

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Dr Antony Theodore 10 December 2020

The fist clenched round my heart loosens a little, and I gasp brightness; but it tightens again. love and the pain of love. the fist shall be opened to love. t ony

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Edward Kofi Louis 10 December 2020

The pain of love! ! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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Rocky Whatever 10 December 2020

feel the same way i am a lost soul and looking for my Rock

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Hold hard then, heart. This way at least you live.

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Ratnakar Mandlik 10 December 2020

The relationship and bondage between movement of the fist and stress and strain on heart beautifully unfolded in this modern poem.

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Suryendu Chaudhury 10 October 2020

Not a promising poem on existential crisis.

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Dr Antony Theodore 28 September 2020

and I gasp brightness; but it tightens again. When have I ever not loved the pain of love? But this has moved Hold fast my heart. tony

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Derek Walcott

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