Thursday, April 22, 2010

The Hospital Window Comments

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I have just come down from my father.
Higher and higher he lies
Above me in a blue light
Shed by a tinted window.
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James Dickey
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Michael Morgan 14 August 2016

A great poem. A brave correction of mis-perception. MM

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Barry Middleton 14 August 2016

A wonderful tribute to his father and to the isolation and grief of the death of a parent.

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Edward Kofi Louis 14 August 2016

Higher and higher he lies! ! Thanks for sharing.

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M Asim Nehal 26 June 2016

In hope to take him back to home, your poem can be interpreted in many ways as you leave the hospital leaving your father and trying to catch up with the world so busy and full with life, running on fast lanes to reach where only they know, for you the world revolves around the hospital window where your ailing father is struggling to survive another day.

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Brian Jani 07 July 2014

brilliant poetry here.this poem paints a clear image in the readers mind.

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James Dickey

James Dickey

Atlanta, Georgia
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