Monday, December 29, 2008

The Kissing Gate Comments

Rating: 4.5

There is a five bar gate,
white, by a woodland track
where, half a century back,
we talked till evening late.
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Patrick Ladbrooke
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Dr Antony Theodore 28 August 2018

How different now, her youthful face, held smiling in my mind? And does she hold that special grace, that made my love so blind? grace, youthfulness, love, romance, desire. influences of the mind in love........ very nice poem. full of feelings and thought.. tony

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Mark Dillon 05 November 2012

great thoughts and well composed,

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Rory Hudson 06 April 2009

Fine images and the rhyme scheme works well.

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Alison Cassidy 29 December 2008

This is glorious Patrick. The gate is such a fine, solid metaphor for your love lost, but not forgotten. In particular I love the lines 'Firm to the lean as then' and 'And I must always have the dream/Hold tight onto its sturdy bars'. A wistful, nostalgic poem. Love, Allie ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

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