| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Mike Loftis on 09/08/04 at 03:27 AM Fantastic!! If you are ever charged with being a poet this one will convict you for sure. |
| Posted by Kenneth Lau on 09/08/04 at 03:42 AM It feels...old farmish? I'm not quite sure how to classify the scene lol, but it is one that I am familiar with through books, and I love it very much. Great poem. |
| Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 09/08/04 at 04:09 AM I agree with both previous comments, but especially when Kenneth's. Has a great country feel to it. You've outdone yourself again with this one jadi! |
| Posted by Anne Engelen on 09/08/04 at 04:43 AM sounds like fondly reliving memories of old times...with a sigh and a smile, thinking life was good |
| Posted by Ulyss Rubey on 09/08/04 at 05:18 AM This vivid view of both sides of the old farm took me back to the 40s, growing up in rural Oklahoma. My poem "agri cultured" is my much more shallow expression of this experience. Great write! |
| Posted by Quentin S Clingerman on 09/08/04 at 01:00 PM Sow! Is this poem ever nostalgic! In platinum gold! Sanguinely and beautifully expressed! Sentimental serenade to the past! |
| Posted by Kate Demeree on 09/08/04 at 05:00 PM Ummmmmm.... I love the feel of this poem! |
| Posted by Amy Niggel on 09/08/04 at 06:51 PM Heh sounds like the house I grew up in! Thank you for this beautiful bit of nostalgia! |
| Posted by Charles E Minshall on 09/08/04 at 11:02 PM I can almost smell the manure when I read this
Jadi. Great pastoral poem....Charlie |
| Posted by Graeme Fielden on 09/08/04 at 11:45 PM A rich image of simplicity itself...proof positive that art lives in every breath...Nice exposition Jadi :) |
| Posted by David R Spellman on 09/09/04 at 12:26 AM A beautiful, peaceful scene you paint here which would make anyone want to jump right into it to enjoy it all the more. Fantastique! |
| Posted by Mara Meade on 09/09/04 at 12:27 PM What an incredible picture you paint, Jadi! I could see it, feel it... this is so engaging and descriptive... I like how there is an element of age and sadness to the beauty of it... the two in one capture the essence. Plus, when you mentioned lilacs, I was nailed... my favourite, old-fashioned scented flower.... sigh! Beautiful! |
| Posted by Philip F De Pinto on 09/09/04 at 03:45 PM with your words, acute, the pouring through our pores the hopes that in such elysium of back porches, we may bask in dreams and sway to idylls and idleness. |
| Posted by Bruce W Niedt on 09/11/04 at 05:21 AM Great bucolic imagery here, jadi - it takes a bit of a sentimental turn in the second stanza, but not overly so - there's something quite soothing about this one - well done.... d:-) |
| Posted by Melissa Arel on 09/13/04 at 02:10 AM What can I say that others haven't already? :) Wonderful, as always! |
| Posted by Christina Bruno on 09/20/04 at 12:20 AM wow. my computer has been broke for so long i've missed this great piece. wonderful :) |
| Posted by Max Bouillet on 09/25/04 at 03:56 PM Beautiful images that dance on a vintage-feeling verse. A sense of nature comes through on all the senses. :) |
| Posted by Quentin S Clingerman on 10/09/04 at 11:30 AM Enjoyed so much reading this bit of nostalgia again. Takes me back to Grandma's home (especially on my mother's side of the family). |
| Posted by Melina Raven Maness Diebold on 12/06/04 at 08:08 PM Makes me think of my great grandmother's house. I want to fix it up but this gives me more appreciation of it's rusticness. |
