Friday, September 16, 2005

The Pace Of Life Comments

Rating: 4.8

How very nice it is after working all day,
To come back home and quietly wile away,
Your leisure hours in many pleasant ways,
Easing the pressures of your present days.
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Ernestine Northover
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Frank James Ryan Jr...fjr 03 December 2006

Ernestine>>>Was reading through some of your older work & stopped on a dime when i came upon this piece, as it is the epidome of how we should treat, look at & live life...You have such an absolute mantra about your poems on lifestyle & nature & this particular pice is (in my view) the mainframe to so many of the mastered works you have written since....Solid craftwork...Structural melliflousity to astute locution... fjr

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Duncan Wyllie 05 April 2006

I'm glad that I took the time to slow down for this one.Lovely write and so well written.Love Duncan

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Egal Bohen 30 September 2005

Ernestine, I like this poem very much and the message is sound, sent so much better too I think in rhyme. Thanks Egal Bohen..

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David Nelson Bradsher 16 September 2005

Great advice, Ernestine, and I hope I can follow it. It's nice to see another poet who practices in rhyme here at the home of elitist post-moderners. My only suggestion would be a closer adherence to meter. Thanks for the poem.

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Uriah Hamilton 16 September 2005

I'm not for sure that my body and brain have ever been that steady and sure, but thanks for the poem, I am for slowing down.

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