Friday, January 3, 2003

The Newcomer Comments

Rating: ★3.9

'There's something new in the river,'
The fish said as it swam.
'It's got no scales, no fins and no gills,
And ignores the impassable dam.'
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Brian Patten
snow animal fish
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Kanni 11 January 2022

Ghu khale newcer saale

1 2 Reply
Kanni 11 January 2022

Tatti saale ghu khale madarchot bhenchot ssaala

1 2 Reply
Rudra parekh 20 December 2021

What is the meaning of word and it kills in poem

1 1 Reply
Amna arshad 01 December 2021

A good poem

3 0 Reply
Farah Deeba 20 October 2020

is it the pollution being spoken of?

1 7 Reply
Yes 28 May 2022

Yes

1 1
ramsha 19 August 2020

is this poem fair to humans

0 0 Reply
Dr Antony Theodore 02 February 2020

'There's something new in the trees.' I heard a bloated thrush sing. 'It's got no beak, no claws, and no feathers, And not even the ghost of a wing.' Great imagination. tony

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Gage hjhqcgfiubcgora 08 May 2019

bye have a good time.

1 2 Reply
its me ESHA 18 March 2019

the poem is simple and sweet and reminds me of the snow white's animal friends, the doe and rabbits and birds and bla bla bla

1 2 Reply
ENRICO 08 November 2018

POLLUTION OVER THE WORLD

2 3 Reply
ben kotti 15 July 2018

what is the animal refered to in the poem New comer?

5 3 Reply
its me ESHA 18 March 2019

the human beings

4 5
Xxxxxx 10 December 2021

It is not a human because in the third stanza there is written that it has no eyes but humans have eyes

4 2
Poop 28 May 2022

The animal isnt actually an animal, its the pollution spreading through the animal kingdom being thought of as an "animal"

1 1
drdyryrty 04 June 2018

ddurtyutuityiuutitiuyiyiyu

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Brian Patten

Liverpool / England
Brian Patten
Brian Patten
Liverpool / England
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