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Strong, solid poetry with great imagery. I love it.

p.s mentioned on the New Poem Reviews

fire creates and the artist molds, I enjoyed your poetry, whom ever you are <grin

I like this poem because of the unique use of language and images. I would like to see a few fewer conjunctions as when one sentence uses it to speed the pace, the effect is lost from overuse. I gave it a 5 though. (extra space in front of the colon be damned. usually I don't vote 5 on poems with technical errors.)

I like this poem because of the unique use of language and images. I would like to see a few fewer conjunctions as when one sentence uses it to speed the pace, the effect is lost from overuse. I gave it a 5 though. (extra space in front of the colon be damned. usually I don't vote 5 on poems with technical errors.)

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Very nice piece

Well written;

An evocative write

Creating images of a sculptor hard at play.

I get the impression that this si a very precise portrait of the man. Wonderful!

One of the things I learn to love in your poems is the feeling of ease it brings with it. God knows, I know that is not always easy. My first lesson I remember my mother telling me as a child: you see those acrobats, they look like they do their routines with no effort at all. Those are the best! And they have to work the hardest so that it would look that easy. <P>

But you show us all that the 'product' can (and maybe even should) be simple and flowing and not pressed for overly complicated and overly enriched or obscure language. Amen to that! After all poetry (or any art) could be transparent on the level of the language yet highly complex on the ideas and the emotions.