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Spring Garden

A thought of Spring

53 total reviews 
Comment from Raul1
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I have enjoyed reading your piece of poetry. It's beautifully written. The sentences flow with clarity. Excellent work! No mistakes found. I like it. Thank you for sharing!

 Comment Written 20-Jun-2023

Comment from karenina
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A sign of a great poem is timelessness.

This is as lovely today as it was when first posted in 2017!

There is a sweet sensuality here...muted in metaphorical reference sublimely!

Bravo!

Karenina

 Comment Written 20-Jun-2023

Comment from Debbie D'Arcy
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Superbly written and well crafted verse conveying all the sensations of a spring garden. I particularly enjoyed your fine wording in the fifth stanza which is the icing on the cake for me. Well done! Debbie

 Comment Written 20-Jun-2023

Comment from Monica Chaddick
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Your poem is quite beautiful. I liked the rhyming pattern that you chose to use. Your piece flows very well, making for an easy read. Best of luck in all of your future endeavors.

 Comment Written 20-Jun-2023

Comment from Eleri
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The rhyming of this poem is very good and I love the imagery of the garden and all that it contains. The rhythm is good throughout and the poem certainly reads well.
Eleri

 Comment Written 19-Jun-2023

Comment from estory
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This is a very very different kind of poem than the ones you usually write. There's still the rigid construction and the disciplined meter, that regimented marching rhythm and sharply echoing rhyme scheme, but the imagery is all pastoral romantic and there's this dream like sense of being in some kind of paradise. estory

 Comment Written 19-Jun-2023

Comment from jaded831
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You truly captured the beauty of nature. I really enjoyed the honey bee and stamen kiss. Your poem expresses the need for the honey bee and for his role in pollination. Your poem is magical.

 Comment Written 19-Jun-2023

Comment from Paul McFarland
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This was a good one, Everett. This is the time of year that my wife's flowers are in bloom. It starts with the lilacs around Memorial Day, and continues for about a month.

 Comment Written 19-Jun-2023

Comment from Mintybee
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I like the variety of strong sensory detail in this poem. I also appreciate the back and forth between purity and sin that the garden evokes or encourages. Your rhyme and rhythm, as usual, are spot on. I also liked reading the extra notes on form. This poem was enjoyable and inspiring.
Mintybee

 Comment Written 19-Jun-2023

Comment from Eternal Muse
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It was a beautiful poem. It smelled like a spring garden - I could feel the aroma of all these beautiful flowers. Excellent used of 8/6 iambic tetrameter.
Fantastic imagery, visuals and presentation.

I really enjoyed it, thank you for sharing.

 Comment Written 19-Jun-2023