' While You Were Asleep { Ariels Wake} Comments

Heart touching writing. While reading this, I visualize how we eventually will lie in eternal sleep.......

The powerful facets of love are immaculately expressed! My favorite lines: Come close, love, as these hungry emerald eyes/Beg to stare into your warm, black diamond eyes…A great piece of poetry!

Woooooooooooooooooow! That's all I can think of saying aside from this being one of the best poems I have ever read. Wish I wrote....never could, so I just read a lot & comment a little. Always loved poetry &You are masterful

T.O....What a pleasant surprise! Message me & keep in touch...Thank You for the visit & comment!

.....a most beautiful and exquisite piece of writing, the scene is painted perfectly with poignancy and love.. ....to lose one most dear, is one of life's most saddest of days....was the loss of my mother (my best friend) , which was the worst day of my life, a heartbreak I will never get over...thank you dear friend for sharing this extraordinary work of art ★

***Welcome Summer semester class & soon to be grads from Empire College of upstate N.Y. Thank You for choosing my work for your Literary 3 study project. Earlier in the week, I was in contact with your Literary Arts Dept, and they agreed with my recommendations as to what pieces might be most supportive to your research and report.Good Luck on your projects...A+'s and nothing less! ! ! Frank James Ryan, Jr

Welcome to all Summer semester students from Empire College of upstate N.Y. Thank You for choosing my work for your Literary 3 study project. Earlier in the week, I was in contact with your Literary Arts Dept, and they agreed with my recommendations as to what pieces might be most supportive to your research and report.Good Luck on your projects...A+'s and nothing less! ! ! Frank James Ryan, Jr

Hello, and Welcome Summer semester class & soon to be grads from Empire College of upstate N.Y. Thank You for choosing my work for your Literary 3 study project. Earlier in the week, I was in contact with your Literary Arts Dept, and they agreed with my recommendations as to what pieces might be most supportive to your research and report.Good Luck on your projects...A+'s and nothing less! ! ! Frank James Ryan, Jr

`Welcome Summer semester class & soon to be grads from Empire College of upstate N.Y. Thank You for choosing my work for your Literary 3 study project. Earlier in the week, I was in contact with your Literary Arts Dept. and they agreed with my recommendations as to what pieces might be most supportive to your research and report. Good Luck on your projects...A+'s and nothing less! ! ! Frank James Ryan, Jr.

So deeply sad and encompassing grief, touching heart and soul - and reading this presents us with a portrait of how we ourselves will eventually lie in sleep -eternal sleep.

A Very Good Morning To The High Schools & Middle Schools of the GREENBURGH/EDGEMONT School District #9 Welcome, and thank you for visiting my work today, this Saturday, July 11th,2015... The High schools and middle schools of Edgemont and Greenburgh have continued to achieve status in the upper 15% of The nation, which is an achievement all of you, both student body, and faculty, and certainly not to forget your dedicated administrators, who made this visit possible today should all be proud of...As a rule, I don't like to pin-point any specific work of mine to hone in on, however, those that appear on the first two pages of my jacket of work seem to garner the most visits on average. So I'm going to have to assume that if I've done anything right with pen in hand, that it wound up on the first two pages of work..LoL! .Hope you enjoy...And, BTW, this site has tens of thousands of members, many f good merit quality...Don't make today your only visit...make it your first of, many visits to the poem pages of some very polished Poet's and Writers. Finally, for any of you who have either dabbled, are dabbling and or have an itching to dabble in the beauty & sophistication of the Literary Arts.., I strongly recommend that you consider becoming a member.There is no membership fee, and you will have the works of tens of thousands from 5 continents at your fingertips, to read, study, critique, share and post your own work on a 24/7/365 basis. So, enjoy...and through my prv. email, please let me know what you're thinking...what you liked, disliked...anything you want to share with me...I can take it, trust me... I once was a well known(to internet sites & local poetry clubs) as a harsh, dragon mouth critic, you know, like Donald Trump, only broke! LoL! Frank James Ryan, Jr./ I.P.M...Library of Congress, Washington D.C./USA

Thank You to the Staff and Students of the Contemporary Arts Program at Livingston College for their visit to my work, and utilizing it as a source of study for their weekly modules on American Contemporary Literature. Your show of interest in my work is both appreciated and humbling. Please do visit again! Frank J.Ryan, Jr./I.P.M.

A major Thank You to the Staff and Students of the Contemporary Arts Program at Livingston College for their visit to my work, and utilizing it as a source of study for their weekly modules on American Contemporary Literature. Your show of interest in my work is both appreciated and humbling. Please do visit again! Frank J.Ryan, Jr./I.P.M.

Full of feeling and loaded with love and loss. well done my friend!

A very vivid and most poignant write. You can just sense the pain and grief there. Very good indeed,

beautifully written. good imagery. I enjoyed this poem

Such a powerful poem. Your words brought such vivid imagery to the moment you described. I could especially appreciate the honesty in the line, Handshakes of pestilence acknowledge unknown faces. Beautiful and heartbreaking.