Friday, December 16, 2016

The Source Of My Name Comments

Rating: 4.5

A remote park
I've been there one hundred times
A bleak lake
runs with the solar path and lunar track
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Cigeng Zhang
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Kwai Chee Low 15 January 2017

Mysterious and insightful! Another good write...I sense the natural flow of your theme in all your poems and this brings it out so easily, the zen is there...

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Daniel Brick 30 December 2016

Name is Identity, yes it is but there are so many other ways of verifying identity, if you can't find your name, don't worry, there will be another way. (That's the practical approach. Here's the difference) .My name precedes me. It is not just my identity, it belongs also to those who came before me, it signifies the context of my life - which is F-A-M-I-L-Y, which is the everlasting part of my identity. Which is... (I think I made my point which is something far richer and more important than just a familiar sound that means ME - Your poem did this to me, it made me think deeply, and go further....)

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Cigeng Zhang 30 December 2016

Name is identity. So true. Some name is a sign; some is a fable. Thanks to my father, he gave me a name in meanings of both identity and fable.Thanks for your nice comment as usual. Much appreciated.

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