Comment from Sandra du Plessis

Excellent

A very well-written poem of faith. Human can quickly drop us and leave us to cope on our own in life. But we can always trust on the Lord to help us cope with our daily struggles.

 Comment Written 08-Dec-2017

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reply by the author on 08-Dec-2017

Thank you for your review. I agree with your comments.

Joan

Comment from Kerry Foley Robinson

Excellent

This is a truly sweet and heartfelt poem you've penned on faith. You did a wonderful job. Good luck in the contest. ~Kerry

 Comment Written 07-Dec-2017

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reply by the author on 08-Dec-2017

Thank you so much , Kerry, for your kind words of encouragement and your good luck wishes.

Joan

reply by Kerry Foley Robinson on 11-Dec-2017

You're very welcome.

Comment from Liberty Justice

Excellent

Beautiful poem about faith and regaining the one we loss, but, perhaps, we shouldn't place too much faith in our loved person. They might just let us down, AGAIN. truly, liberty justice

 Comment Written 07-Dec-2017

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reply by the author on 08-Dec-2017

Thanks for the review. I wasn't talking about going back to the one who broke the heart but just having
faith to try again with someone new despite the fear of getting your heart broken again.

Joan

Comment from Dolly'sPoems

Excellent

Grief is all consuming but when you have hope of a re-union it can gladden the heart and mend all ills, best wishes to you for the contest, love Dolly x

 Comment Written 07-Dec-2017

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reply by the author on 08-Dec-2017

Thank you so much for reading and reviewing. I appreciate all the stars.

Joan

Comment from BeasPeas

Excellent

This is a very good poem in rhyming and content. It doesn't matter how we lose a loved one, whether through death or estrangement--it still hurts. Time does have a way of dissipating the pain. Marilyn

 Comment Written 24-Nov-2017

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reply by the author on 24-Nov-2017

Thanks for the kind words of encouragement and all the stars.

Joan

Comment from marybell1

Excellent

I enjoyed reading your faith poem 'Shattered". You rhymed it well. I just have one quire e.g. verse three line two. - did you mean begin or the past tense began?
All the best
Marybell1.

 Comment Written 24-Nov-2017

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reply by the author on 24-Nov-2017

Thanks for the review. I will check out what tense is right.

dp

reply by marybell1 on 25-Nov-2017

You are most welcome.
Marybell1.

Comment from zekeziemann

Excellent

I loved this poem as I have been through the "list" you wrote about. Rhyming and rhythm is very good, Keep the faith! Well done.

 Comment Written 23-Nov-2017

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reply by the author on 23-Nov-2017

Thanks for reading and commenting on my poem.

Happy Thanksgiving

dp

Comment from robyn corum

Excellent

Hello there!

This is a totally different sort of faith poem, isn't it? Kind of like having faith in yourself enough to pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and try again. Nice. Good luck!

 Comment Written 23-Nov-2017

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reply by the author on 23-Nov-2017

I appreciate the review. I think we have to love and have faith in ourselves before we have faith in Anyone else.

Happy Thanksgiving

Joan

Comment from B.B. Rose

Excellent

While I think this is misplaced faith, having been burned so badly once that you would want to engage with this person again. While the diction is effective (although cord might be better than chord) and your rime scheme very effective, I think your poem would have been more effective if you would have written your poem in the past tense for your first three stanzas. (That is the tense you have used to start out your third stanza.) Then in that stanza you start to move away from your hurting to hope "...anger and grief began to soften/and I clung to the belief/I would see you again." Then your final couplet really takes on that positive emphasis where you have completed your journey from hurt and despair to renewed faith in love.

 Comment Written 23-Nov-2017

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reply by the author on 23-Nov-2017

Thanks for the thorough review and high rating. I wasn't saying return to the one the hurt you though forgiving is part of faith. I was going for having faith in love in general and finding someone new.

Happy Thanksgiving

dragonpoet

reply by B.B. Rose on 23-Nov-2017

Thank goodness. I guess I was interpreting the line "I would see you again" as the person who hurt you.

Comment from Dhale89

Excellent

I like how you didn't try to force four lines out of the fourth verse. This sounded like a main verse from a rock styled song if sung at a fast tempo or possibly a slow sad country song. Good work and good luck.

 Comment Written 21-Nov-2017

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reply by the author on 21-Nov-2017

Thanks for the kind words and saying it seemed like a song. I never planned that.

Joan