~~~~~the River~~~~~ Comments
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The river deep and dark
~~~flowing through the night
carrying flotsam and jetsam
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drowning secrets upon secrets in its depth...I sincerely appreciate and admire the fathomless depth of your poetic imagination in its truthful parlance. A precious poem.
You have sketched altogether a different river here. Loved this beautiful poem.5 stars.
Very touching and thought provoking. A river is a silent witness to mankind's activities. To my Poem List.
Rose Marie--I treasure that you put this of your fav list. It is a very treasured tribute to a poem that you want to reread it. Thank you!
The superb imagery embedded in this wonderful write made me at close range with the river. Crystalline images that can take you back to yesteryears and to the present and even future. Very encompassing.
You painted a very vivid picture of the river that I felt I was there. A good 5*
Thank you for reading and commenting---we need to know what fellow poets think of our efforts and what they like
Here we can hear the sound of river when reveals some of its secrets and beauty; it is the power of susan's poem make us feeling like that....it is fantastic and great poem..thank you for sharing with us....10+++
Thank you, Soran, I have often thought of doing a re-write on this
A beautiful tribute to river lethe. I love the little images u created in dis poem.Thanks 4 sharing
ever flowing ever streaming ever burbling against the rounded smooth pebbles on its shores ~~~ever its dark lurid song dreaming carrying memories like burnt offerings in its eddies ~~~leaving forgetfulness in its wake River Lethe drifting thoughtlessly along ~~~toward the confluence of the Columbia and the Snake........so touching and impressive. A beautiful poem nicely executed. Thanks for sharing.10
Thank you, Kumarmani- I take your words to heart... and thanks for the 10! ! !
Wow! Wow! Wonderful! Excellently expressed and creatively composed is this rich and refreshing poem. As refreshing as rain drops and the river itself. Full of feeling and loaded with lovely life. I feel as if I have visited the river as it awakened my senses with it's sublime sentences. Well done my dear friend Susan.1000000/+++/10 … I am deeply delighted to add this beautiful poem to my poem list!
Thank you, Howard, for your enthusiasm for this poem and for adding it to your fav list- -that makes a writer feel validated! ! ! ! The river for the first time since they built the Grand Coulee Dam before I was born flooded this spring- -it is a deep and wide river anyway but it turned violent from an extraordinary snow melt-off in the Canadian mountains. Even then she is a mighty and beloved river!
A lovely sense of timelessness. The ever flowing ancient river and her parts of collective energy as she flows and folds away errors and era's of men as she journeys toward the Snake.
Thank you Simone for reading this- -you always seem to know what feel; ing I am trying to evoke!
WOW! This poem humbled me. Living within three miles of the Mississippi River, and frequently walking along the very high banks above its wide flow, I thought I know everything about rivers - It's the Mississippi, for crisssake, that makes me an expert, right? Wrong! Your poem took me down to the water's edge and I saw the river bloated with debris, churning its own course, oblivious to me. Now I know why T.S.Eliot called the Mississippi A STRONG BROWN GOD - the two of you poets have humbled me. Which is the proper state for a poet to be in.
Daniel, words of high praise because you are one of the most observant poets I have ever read! I am jumping up and down on the banks of the Mississippi like a little schoolgirl celebrating her first gold star from the Teacher! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! And then mentioned in the same sentence as T S Eliot and his A STRONG BROWN GOD- - oh! nobody wake me up from this DREAM! ! ! I remember as a child looking forward to taking the bridge over the Mississippi River on our way back East- -the great historic Mississippi River, the gateway to the west in my history lessons.... and I was sooooo soiooo disappointed that it was so brown and sluggish..... I grew up beside the mighty blue waters of the Columbia and I expected the Mississippi to out-mighty and out-blue and put the Columbia to shame. Well, in later years I forgave the river - - it still held a giant role in the history of North America.
The greatness of this poem..... the live images, the very theme connecting it to the humanity and so making the river act as one having deep feelings.... being a perfect example of 'pathetic fallacy', ... the allusion to the Lethe and many more beyond my knowledge attracting the learned readers and the common....... Thanks... S. Nurul.
Thank you! The River Lethe is as you know a mythical river out of the classic writings.... The Columbia River is a well-known river in the American Northwest and the Snake is somewhat well-known in this area and in history. There is absolutely no reason for people who don't live in America to recognize their names! Sorry about that. But it is the Columbia River that I walk beside and sit beside and have played beside and I just felt compelled to use its name and that of the Snake in this poem. My bad! ! I should have warned readers in an Author's note about them. But the important thing is that you understood what I was doing with the rivers.... they are a mighty symbol of many things in our life.
You have some dark images in the poem still I feel the image of river itself is just too powerful. If its darkness pitted against the darkness of heart the river will still washe away any darkness of human heart. That is why I find the poem simply beautiful and soothing.
I am glad you added this comment to your first comment. I was starting to think I hadn't done my job well but you have it- -the river is beautiful and the river is powerful and it is both cold but it is also healing and nourishing as it cleans the sins of mankind be it pollution or sins of a moral nature.... it is Life itself... Thank you, Savita, for giving this poem your undivided attention. I learn so much from the comments of involved readers! .
Such a lovely poem. Rivers are so much part of our life. A beautiful part that seems to be getting farther and farther from us. Reading it I simply imagined myself sitting by its cold water and playing with pebbles. I wrote a poem long time back ' river calls me' simply to take me back to river shore through memory. Thank you for sharing Susan.
I am always drawn to rivers.... they re such a huge part of our history and our culture and our economy and our artistry and the site of some of our loveliest moments. Thank you, Savita, for reading and commenting! !
Susan Williams, This was such a lovely and creative writing structure you created. I found it even more enjoyable to read. the River seemed so like time that just keeps running a long. flowing through the night, carrying jetsam and flotsam, through the shadowy moonlight. Drowning secrets upon secrets in its depths. The river Lethe......Very impressive as you connected it with the Columbia and the Snake rivers. so lovely to read and lovely poem! You have encouraged me! Blessings, Kathy
Kathy, you make an author feel good about his work! ! ! That means you are the encouraging one! Thank you, and many blessings on you as well!
A darkly rich evocative work Susan, very gothic in its undertones and imagery, if Edgar Allen Poe was a vampire who was still around writing poetry its something he would write it seems, for the modern age. I love the rhyming and it flows like a river black and depthless riches. Phantasmagorical.
Thank you so very much for this comment- -I would love some of my poems to sound Poe-ish, he is such a master of creating emotions with his choice of words, the sounds of words, the repetition of words. This comment put a skip in my hop! ! ! Thank you again, Patrick!
BRILLIANT WRITE SUSAN! I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS POEM, AS I READ IT I BREATHE IN THE MOIST AIR, I HEAR THE CONSTANT FLOW AS THE MOONLIGHT SHIMMERS OVER THE DEEP AND DARK RIVER! INSPIRATIONAL LINES THROUGHOUT YOUR BRILLIANCE SHIMMERS ACROSS THE PAGE! !
Hey Hazel! I am pleased that this poem touched you so vividly- - you write such encouraging words to your fellow writers- - makes us go forth and try even harder! ! !
I have heard of the Columbia and the Snake, but had not heard of the Lethe River. Your poem makes me want to go there and get to know it, though. Your use of words is amazing. Your 'mining for words' in the dictionary has really paid off. When I was younger, I would occasionally 'read' the dictionary. Then I discovered Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, Ken Holt mystery stories and the Hardy Boys, and others, so I didn't read the dictionary very much after that. As others have commented, this is a great poem.
As you can imagine, when I graduated [somewhat] from reading the dictionary, I went to... guess what... the Black Stallion series by Walter Farley! ! ! Dang near blinded myself by reading by moonlight coming through the window over my bed. You won't really find the River Lethe here, the river of forgetfulness exists only in the myths of ancient mythology along with the River Styx and its celebrated boatsman [every so often I have to try to wax erudite ;) ]Thank you for coming and reading and commenting, Kim
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7/26/2025 12:12:54 PM # 1.0.0
Such an amazing work......thanks a lot..