Free Verse Collection
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48 total reviews
Comment from krys123
Tony;
Rich, with a very figurative, symbolic, allegorical and emblematic setting which culminates a wonderful thesis, which is of a metaphor of time. This symbolic reasoning of time shows it's passing how important it is in our lives to be aware of each moment time passes: "to and fro they go into a haze of bygone days in dust- suspended in the moonlight." Speaking of the pendulum in that is monotonously moving back-and-forth into may represents the "monotony" of life.
Thank you for sharing and posting this for everyone to read and may the good Lord be with you always Tony.
Alex
reply by the author on 20-Oct-2014
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Tony;
Rich, with a very figurative, symbolic, allegorical and emblematic setting which culminates a wonderful thesis, which is of a metaphor of time. This symbolic reasoning of time shows it's passing how important it is in our lives to be aware of each moment time passes: "to and fro they go into a haze of bygone days in dust- suspended in the moonlight." Speaking of the pendulum in that is monotonously moving back-and-forth into may represents the "monotony" of life.
Thank you for sharing and posting this for everyone to read and may the good Lord be with you always Tony.
Alex
Comment Written 17-Oct-2014
reply by the author on 20-Oct-2014
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Thanks, Alex, for your review of my Clock poem.
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You are so sincerely welcome Tony
Comment from Diny
okay First off let me say I have a facenation with time and clocks and all things related... so you had me with the title!
then I could hear the piece as i read it feel the time go by and imagine the pendulum and the hands as they turned... bravo!
well done and as always write on!- Di
reply by the author on 20-Oct-2014
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okay First off let me say I have a facenation with time and clocks and all things related... so you had me with the title!
then I could hear the piece as i read it feel the time go by and imagine the pendulum and the hands as they turned... bravo!
well done and as always write on!- Di
Comment Written 16-Oct-2014
reply by the author on 20-Oct-2014
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Thanks, Di, for your review of my Clock poem.
Comment from Leigh Ann
This is excellent flow and imagery. Even without the picture I could see and hear the clock ticking loudly and steady. I have a pendulum clock in my living room mounted on the wall that ticks rather loud, or should I say ticked rather loudly, because one night my sister slept in the living room when she visited and tore the pendulum up by putting something in front of is so it wouldn't swing. lol From then on I made her sleep in one of my guest bedrooms. Great poem.
reply by the author on 20-Oct-2014
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This is excellent flow and imagery. Even without the picture I could see and hear the clock ticking loudly and steady. I have a pendulum clock in my living room mounted on the wall that ticks rather loud, or should I say ticked rather loudly, because one night my sister slept in the living room when she visited and tore the pendulum up by putting something in front of is so it wouldn't swing. lol From then on I made her sleep in one of my guest bedrooms. Great poem.
Comment Written 16-Oct-2014
reply by the author on 20-Oct-2014
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Thanks, Leigh Ann, for your review of my Clock poem. Sisters!!
Comment from Spitfire
Nothing drives me more crazy than the ticking of a clock! Metronomic Madness sounds like a good excuse to get away with taking a hatchet to the thing. With my luck, the cuckoo would pick that second to pop out. Dead bird now. LOL
reply by the author on 20-Oct-2014
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Nothing drives me more crazy than the ticking of a clock! Metronomic Madness sounds like a good excuse to get away with taking a hatchet to the thing. With my luck, the cuckoo would pick that second to pop out. Dead bird now. LOL
Comment Written 16-Oct-2014
reply by the author on 20-Oct-2014
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Thanks, Spitfire, for your review of my Clock poem.
Comment from Irish Rain
I loved this because I can SOOOO identify with it...I wish all my clocks would break, and all those at work too....so they wouldn't know I was late! Madness indeed!
reply by the author on 20-Oct-2014
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I loved this because I can SOOOO identify with it...I wish all my clocks would break, and all those at work too....so they wouldn't know I was late! Madness indeed!
Comment Written 16-Oct-2014
reply by the author on 20-Oct-2014
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Thanks, Irish Rain, for your review of my Clock poem.
Comment from donaldww
Excellent free verse!
"The lunar toc of the clock / drips time, drop by drop"
[Great line. It's as if the clock contains time, and is leaking it toc by toc.]
Nice reference to a metronome in the penultimate line.
Excellent!
Cheers,
DW
reply by the author on 16-Oct-2014
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Excellent free verse!
"The lunar toc of the clock / drips time, drop by drop"
[Great line. It's as if the clock contains time, and is leaking it toc by toc.]
Nice reference to a metronome in the penultimate line.
Excellent!
Cheers,
DW
Comment Written 16-Oct-2014
reply by the author on 16-Oct-2014
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Thanks you for your review, Donald. Very much appreciated. Have a great weekend! Best wishes, Tony
Comment from Treischel
Lots of excellent feeling in this excellent free verse poem that clearly projects the annoying slowness of progressing time. Nice alliteration of the S, M and C letters. Nice inline rhyming too. That makes this a free style more than a free verse.
reply by the author on 16-Oct-2014
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Lots of excellent feeling in this excellent free verse poem that clearly projects the annoying slowness of progressing time. Nice alliteration of the S, M and C letters. Nice inline rhyming too. That makes this a free style more than a free verse.
Comment Written 16-Oct-2014
reply by the author on 16-Oct-2014
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Thanks you for your review, Tom. Very much appreciated. Have a great weekend! Best wishes, Tony
Comment from scd41
Your poem's satire on clock watching is lovely. It is an irony that clock invented by man is now controlling him. One feels most relaxed when he does what he wants to despite the clock never stopping to do its work. Life goes on even when clock stops.
reply by the author on 16-Oct-2014
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Your poem's satire on clock watching is lovely. It is an irony that clock invented by man is now controlling him. One feels most relaxed when he does what he wants to despite the clock never stopping to do its work. Life goes on even when clock stops.
Comment Written 16-Oct-2014
reply by the author on 16-Oct-2014
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Thanks you for your review, scd. Very much appreciated. Have a great weekend! Best wishes, Tony
Comment from Supe
I like the flow and smooth read from start to finish of this piece. Slow and stately ticks the clock with pendulous monotony. How true! Good job on this and the picture is a complement to your words. Nice write.
reply by the author on 16-Oct-2014
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I like the flow and smooth read from start to finish of this piece. Slow and stately ticks the clock with pendulous monotony. How true! Good job on this and the picture is a complement to your words. Nice write.
Comment Written 16-Oct-2014
reply by the author on 16-Oct-2014
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Thanks you for your review, Supe. Very much appreciated. Have a great weekend! Best wishes, Tony
Comment from ravenblack
Love the metronomic madness cut by the cuckoo, really both a bit mad. Like two negatives mutilplied making a positive, maybe the two madness equals the sanity of just forgetting those ticks and tocks and just live. Lunar clock/ moon dust suspended- you have a knack for drawing meaning from the juxtaposition of similar words.
reply by the author on 16-Oct-2014
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Love the metronomic madness cut by the cuckoo, really both a bit mad. Like two negatives mutilplied making a positive, maybe the two madness equals the sanity of just forgetting those ticks and tocks and just live. Lunar clock/ moon dust suspended- you have a knack for drawing meaning from the juxtaposition of similar words.
Comment Written 16-Oct-2014
reply by the author on 16-Oct-2014
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Thanks you for your review, Ravenblack. Very much appreciated. Have a great weekend! Best wishes, Tony