Comment from Jannypan (Jan)

Excellent

Good job, Mystery Author, with your contest entry. Your syllable count per line is correct. You have a great message too of helping sick/injured critters.
Best wishes in the contest.
Respectfully, Jan

 Comment Written 17-Feb-2022

Comment from Janice Canerdy

Excellent

You have made excellent use of these mere eleven syllables in your timely poem about homelessness, of both humans and animals--as the artwork, to me, implies. SO MANY are without homes.

 Comment Written 17-Feb-2022

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reply by the author on 17-Feb-2022

Actually , the hand would be mine and those that help strays on the street.

I'm always surprised how members come to different conclusions/interpretations.

In my subtitle I give more insight....poor souls is referring to strays ...the English expression "find forever homes" is, I believe, used when speaking of cats and dogs.

Thank you for reviewing my poem.

Keep safe!

reply by Janice Canerdy on 17-Feb-2022

I didn't mean to come across as dense! I thought also of homeless people; I probably shouldn't have added that. :-)

reply by Janice Canerdy on 17-Feb-2022

I didn't mean to come across as dense! I thought also of homeless people; I probably shouldn't have added that. :-)

reply by the author on 17-Feb-2022

Sorry, I didn?t want to offend..

I just didn?t want merit where there was none .. I do give money to homeless on the street but I have never helped them actively .

Find Forever homes? is an expression I heard for the first time when I got my first PC in Dec 2010 and I started reading stuff in English.

My apologies if I sounded aggressive.

Keep safe!

reply by Janice Canerdy on 17-Feb-2022

:-)

reply by the author on 17-Feb-2022

Does that mean smile in code ?

reply by Janice Canerdy on 17-Feb-2022

Yes. Turned sideways because I don't know how to do it correctly.

reply by the author on 17-Feb-2022

Okay!

Take care!