Comment from Jacqueline M Franklin

Excellent

Wow Tab!

Your words are chilling enough, but the photo just brings loneliness and despair full circle. Excellent poem!

Congrats on the win too.

Cheers
Keep Smilin'... Jax

 Comment Written 23-Apr-2014

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reply by the author on 23-Apr-2014

Thank you Jax for the great review and congrats on the win:)

Comment from Zue65

Exceptional

This really deserved to be a contest winner and it truly deserved a six stars. the theme"loneliness" was perfectly explored in this short free verse, the agony of waiting for death when you are at a point of being dead anyway. This is an exceptional write indeed. God bless.

 Comment Written 23-Apr-2014

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reply by the author on 23-Apr-2014

Thank you for the great review and congrats on the win:) Thank you for honoring my poem with six stars!

Comment from Lulube

Excellent

Hey congrats with this one.
and can I identify with this one? Seems we speak the same language on a lot of our poetry.
good imagery for the reader to feel this loneliness.
good work girl

lulube

 Comment Written 22-Apr-2014

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reply by the author on 23-Apr-2014

Thank you lulube for the great review and congrats on the win:) Yes, we do seem to connect on much of our poetry - the good, bad and ugly:)

reply by Lulube on 24-Apr-2014

lol I'll take what I can get. At least there's a choice. lol

lulube

Comment from Joan E.

Excellent

Congratulations on winning the contest. You certainly vividly captured the sense of loneliness in free verse. You took on a powerful persona and added a black-and-white photograph that reinforces the mood perfectly. Well done- Joan

 Comment Written 22-Apr-2014

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reply by the author on 23-Apr-2014

Thank you Joan for the great review and congrats on the win:)

Comment from kiwijenny

Excellent

Well done.....well expressed loneliness and well deserving of the win
Glad it isn't biographical............................................
God bless............................................

 Comment Written 22-Apr-2014

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reply by the author on 23-Apr-2014

Thank you for the great review and congrats on the win:)

Comment from Selina Stambi

Excellent

Teresa, this is a really impressive piece of free verse - such a worthy winner. Congratulations, my dear!

Author notes - made me smile. Protects you from the cluckers (like moi??)!

Love,

Sonali :)

 Comment Written 22-Apr-2014

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reply by the author on 23-Apr-2014

Thank you Sonali for the great review and congrats on the win:)

Comment from Janet Foor

Excellent

Congratulations on the win Teresa! You vividly portray the feelings and emotions of being alone in the well written free verse poem. Very well done.
Blessings
Janet

 Comment Written 22-Apr-2014

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reply by the author on 23-Apr-2014

Thank you Janet for the great review and congrats on the win:)

Comment from brittanydawngray

Excellent

You portray such deep and dark emotion, which I love. Loneliness is the worst feeling in the word, especially when your mind races and you are left staring into the emptiness of the space surrounding you. Beautifully dark and vivid poem.

Brittany Dawn Gray

 Comment Written 22-Apr-2014

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reply by the author on 22-Apr-2014

thank you for the great review:)

Comment from Dorothy Farrell

Excellent

Teresa this is a very good poem you entered and I can see why you won. Very well written and so sad. Hope it is purely poetry and nothing more. The picture is very appropriate and good to be coloured grey. Regards Dorothy

 Comment Written 22-Apr-2014

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reply by the author on 22-Apr-2014

It is just poetry - thanks Dorothy for the great review:)

Comment from Andrewajgblue

Exceptional

I absolutely loved this, I thought it was really wonderful such great wording , it was very poignant and sad, but not wallowing, really great writing, worth every star,
Andrew

 Comment Written 22-Apr-2014

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reply by the author on 22-Apr-2014

Andrew thank you so much for the six star rating and thankfully it isn't true but merely pondering what life would feel like without my lovely wife:)

reply by Andrewajgblue on 22-Apr-2014

Bless you, makes you realise how lucky we all are :)