Happy Holidays?
Description of a dream63 total reviews
Comment from James Dooney
i feel this is a good work you have given us here and I like it. I like how it develops from start to end. Well done here and keep it up !
reply by the author on 30-Jun-2014
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i feel this is a good work you have given us here and I like it. I like how it develops from start to end. Well done here and keep it up !
Comment Written 30-Jun-2014
reply by the author on 30-Jun-2014
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Thank you so much for your review and for your comments. I appreciate the feedback and I'm glad you liked it.
Comment from Nosha17
Yes, the reality of the first Thanksgiving may not always be exactly as we imagine it to be. In any case, it does remind one that the native population shared with the newcomers and likewise. Interesting poem, with well chosen words and rhyming. Enjoyable read, with good complimentary photo. Faye
reply by the author on 29-Jun-2014
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Yes, the reality of the first Thanksgiving may not always be exactly as we imagine it to be. In any case, it does remind one that the native population shared with the newcomers and likewise. Interesting poem, with well chosen words and rhyming. Enjoyable read, with good complimentary photo. Faye
Comment Written 29-Jun-2014
reply by the author on 29-Jun-2014
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Faye,
Thank you for taking the time to read this and comment. History doesn't always get things right does it? Actually, I think it often doesn't get things right. I find it ironic that the natives helped the newcomers to survive only to be almost wiped out by them eventually.
Ward
Comment from sunnilicious
Wonderful poem. Great visual imagery created. Creative. Sounds like you're dreading Thanksgiving from this dream. Well thought out and clearly written. Good rhythmn and rhymes. Fabulous work.
reply by the author on 29-Jun-2014
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Wonderful poem. Great visual imagery created. Creative. Sounds like you're dreading Thanksgiving from this dream. Well thought out and clearly written. Good rhythmn and rhymes. Fabulous work.
Comment Written 29-Jun-2014
reply by the author on 29-Jun-2014
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Thank you for reading and reviewing my poem. I appreciate the feedback. I don't so much dread Thanksgiving as find the origins of it ironic. The natives kept the colonists from starving then were eventually almost wiped out by the newcomers who wanted their land.
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Gotta love them pilgrims, native american indians and feasts. Enjoyable read. Have a good week :)
Comment from MisinformedPoet
A very interesting mash-up of holiday season events in the dream part of this poem, it is no wonder the poor bloke woke up in such a state and decided to give up on the day and return to bed.
Good fun stuff with a moral message.
reply by the author on 29-Jun-2014
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A very interesting mash-up of holiday season events in the dream part of this poem, it is no wonder the poor bloke woke up in such a state and decided to give up on the day and return to bed.
Good fun stuff with a moral message.
Comment Written 29-Jun-2014
reply by the author on 29-Jun-2014
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Thank you for taking the time to read and review my poem. The dream was real, the rest of it wasn't. It was disturbing to say the least.
Comment from ravenblack
Oooh, this is such a biting social commentary. A dozen dead natives with turkey to eat, the rabbit nailed to the cross- thanksgiving, Easter, Halloween and civil war reenactments. Why we believe what we believe and how history is written makes me want to rip off my shirt and tie too and go running howling in the woods. What we purport to believe and what is actually put into practice is the abomination called history. If you haven't, check out the book " Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian Hating and Empire Building by Richard Drinnon. It is a real eye-opener.
reply by the author on 28-Jun-2014
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Oooh, this is such a biting social commentary. A dozen dead natives with turkey to eat, the rabbit nailed to the cross- thanksgiving, Easter, Halloween and civil war reenactments. Why we believe what we believe and how history is written makes me want to rip off my shirt and tie too and go running howling in the woods. What we purport to believe and what is actually put into practice is the abomination called history. If you haven't, check out the book " Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian Hating and Empire Building by Richard Drinnon. It is a real eye-opener.
Comment Written 28-Jun-2014
reply by the author on 28-Jun-2014
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Thank you very much for your review and your comments. The book you recommend sounds very interesting and enlightening. If you take the time to try to find what really happened throughout history it is often quite appalling. Didn't someone say something about history being written by the victors? That being so, the winners will definitely write in their favor. It takes a long time for anything like the truth to catch up.
Comment from Joan E.
I admired your vivid description of your dream in these quatrains using a good deal of mono-rhyme. "History changes, rearranging the truth" says it all! Cheers- Joan
reply by the author on 27-Jun-2014
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I admired your vivid description of your dream in these quatrains using a good deal of mono-rhyme. "History changes, rearranging the truth" says it all! Cheers- Joan
Comment Written 27-Jun-2014
reply by the author on 27-Jun-2014
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Joan E,
Thank you very much for the great review.
Ward
Comment from Eric1
A wonderful wonderful stroll through your country's History, your whle beautiful poem flows like a good wine and is easy on the reading yet teaches us all something! really good aliteration / rhyme and proximate rhyme, really enjoyed it!
reply by the author on 27-Jun-2014
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A wonderful wonderful stroll through your country's History, your whle beautiful poem flows like a good wine and is easy on the reading yet teaches us all something! really good aliteration / rhyme and proximate rhyme, really enjoyed it!
Comment Written 27-Jun-2014
reply by the author on 27-Jun-2014
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Eric1,
Thank you for the review. I wish it was as good as you make it
sound.
Have a great evening
Ward
Comment from Righteous Riter
Good use of the aabb rhyme scheme. Good end rhyming. Good perfect rhyming with lost/cost...call/fall...cost/lost. Good description and alliteration. Good complimentary photo followed by a clear message.
reply by the author on 26-Jun-2014
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Good use of the aabb rhyme scheme. Good end rhyming. Good perfect rhyming with lost/cost...call/fall...cost/lost. Good description and alliteration. Good complimentary photo followed by a clear message.
Comment Written 26-Jun-2014
reply by the author on 26-Jun-2014
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Thank you very much for your kind review and for your feedback.
Comment from Bobby Jo
I wrote a poem in High School one time, and it was a history assignment a lot like this. I made it all into a dream of me seeing everything back in History. good job.
reply by the author on 26-Jun-2014
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I wrote a poem in High School one time, and it was a history assignment a lot like this. I made it all into a dream of me seeing everything back in History. good job.
Comment Written 26-Jun-2014
reply by the author on 26-Jun-2014
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History can be view so differently depending on one's perspective.
Comment from LIJ Red
No more chili dogs for supper. Maybe you shoulda worked
longer on the AAAA rhymes. You came close. monosomething.
Anyway, it's a good read. way back in 1969 the Church was debating on decanonizing mister Valentine...
reply by the author on 26-Jun-2014
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No more chili dogs for supper. Maybe you shoulda worked
longer on the AAAA rhymes. You came close. monosomething.
Anyway, it's a good read. way back in 1969 the Church was debating on decanonizing mister Valentine...
Comment Written 26-Jun-2014
reply by the author on 26-Jun-2014
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I thought it was Mom's apple pie that did it. History is a strange an fluid thing.
