Sunday, September 4, 2005

The Old Photographs Comments

Rating: 5.0

I sit and look at photographs of relations that used to be,
Some I remember from childhood, some related more distantly,
Their faces often smiling, or serious and stern,
Some looking very peaceful and gentle in their turn.
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Ernestine Northover
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Alison Cassidy 22 May 2008

Nostaligia penned evocatively and sensitively (I would expect no less from a poet of your calibre) . And although you wish you could chat with these sepia faces, you words tell the reader how much they have already told you - in your dreams perhaps, or from books penned long ago - or even through reading wonderful poems like this! Beautiful write. love, Allie ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

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Gillian.E. Shaw 30 May 2006

I think this is absolutely lovely! What a beautiful, skilled poem and how interesting, complete and perfect in form. Just perfect!

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Duncan Wyllie 09 May 2006

I wonder if in the future there will be a machine that can rekindle voice imprints from materials left on walls floors etc.... A thought provoking write from a great voice, love duncan

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Daniel Tyler 09 March 2006

I love the link between past and present here.

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Nickoli Rominofsky 25 January 2006

Ernestine, you have stoked the furnace of memories, long sinced past. The fire from those memories...from that furnace, to this very day, still warms me. Nickoli

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