A Po-em Old
A Villanelle47 total reviews
Comment from Teri7
This is a very interesting and well written poem you have penned about the poems of old. You used very good descriptive wording and great imagery from your words! Blessings, Teri
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This is a very interesting and well written poem you have penned about the poems of old. You used very good descriptive wording and great imagery from your words! Blessings, Teri
Comment Written 28-Jan-2018
reply by the author on 29-Jan-2018
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Thank you Teri very much my friend. tom
Comment from James H. Oldfield
I really liked this, though as a slave to the traditional forms, I suspect I was always bound to :)
Great job, I thoroughly enjoyed reading.
Take care.
-James
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I really liked this, though as a slave to the traditional forms, I suspect I was always bound to :)
Great job, I thoroughly enjoyed reading.
Take care.
-James
Comment Written 28-Jan-2018
reply by the author on 29-Jan-2018
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Thanks a million James. Most honored. tom
Comment from Gert sherwood
Hello easyeverett1
Smiles I like how you echo two lines throughout out your poem and how in both your opening stanza as well as your final statement in the ending quatrain, stand alone, as the final line in each tercet stanza along the way.
Not easy to do
Excellent example of classic poetry
Gert
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Hello easyeverett1
Smiles I like how you echo two lines throughout out your poem and how in both your opening stanza as well as your final statement in the ending quatrain, stand alone, as the final line in each tercet stanza along the way.
Not easy to do
Excellent example of classic poetry
Gert
Comment Written 28-Jan-2018
reply by the author on 29-Jan-2018
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Hi Gert. Thank you very much friend. tom
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You are welcome Tom
Gert
Comment from zanya
A delightful read extolling the perennial virtues of 'A Po-em old'- rhythmical and musical and a joy to the ear when read aloud - like virtual threads of gold in its resonance
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A delightful read extolling the perennial virtues of 'A Po-em old'- rhythmical and musical and a joy to the ear when read aloud - like virtual threads of gold in its resonance
Comment Written 28-Jan-2018
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Wow, what a beautifully expressed review zanya. I am most honored. tom
Comment from rama devi
Nice to see you posting again, dear Tom. Hope you enjoyed your recent birthday. This is an eloquent and lovely villanelle - delightful to read aloud!
As usual, this is well timed and rhymed, and it has fine phonetic in phrasing, especially all the alliteration and internal rhymes.
I quote the above same lines in your whole poem in reference to this and all your poetry! Delicious music!
Especially love:
Sophisticated language ripe and bold
Applied with master crafted strokes sublime;
A poem old has verses wrapped in gold.
A reservoir of riches indeed!~
Love this line and simile:
In metronomic splendor like a chime;
Warmly,
rd
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Nice to see you posting again, dear Tom. Hope you enjoyed your recent birthday. This is an eloquent and lovely villanelle - delightful to read aloud!
As usual, this is well timed and rhymed, and it has fine phonetic in phrasing, especially all the alliteration and internal rhymes.
I quote the above same lines in your whole poem in reference to this and all your poetry! Delicious music!
Especially love:
Sophisticated language ripe and bold
Applied with master crafted strokes sublime;
A poem old has verses wrapped in gold.
A reservoir of riches indeed!~
Love this line and simile:
In metronomic splendor like a chime;
Warmly,
rd
Comment Written 28-Jan-2018
reply by the author on 29-Jan-2018
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Thanks a million sis. I have been busy lately so have missed hearing from you my friend. Thanks again. tom
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:-)))
Comment from royowen
Of course I love the artistry of David, Job and other artisans that melded, welded and created the very metaphors, verse and verbal diagrams the later poets imitated, although a wordsmith is uniquely gifted in pulling verbiage from the clouds, the generations that went before us moulded in a slightly different vocabulary to us, so each era produces its artisans of scribing. Nicely written in appreciation, in aba triplets and abaa rhymed quatrain, well done, most enjoyable, blessings, Roy
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Of course I love the artistry of David, Job and other artisans that melded, welded and created the very metaphors, verse and verbal diagrams the later poets imitated, although a wordsmith is uniquely gifted in pulling verbiage from the clouds, the generations that went before us moulded in a slightly different vocabulary to us, so each era produces its artisans of scribing. Nicely written in appreciation, in aba triplets and abaa rhymed quatrain, well done, most enjoyable, blessings, Roy
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Comment Written 28-Jan-2018
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Thank you Roy. I am as always honored my friend. tom
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Thanks Tom
Comment from Debbie Pope
I suppose I am a formalist as well, although, as a writer, I am glad to limitless freedom to express myself. If talented enough though, I would mimic the "poems old" for therein lies the true genius of artistic writing. I think that your line "a poem old has verses wrapped in gold" meets the classical standard. It is a very musical, artistic poem.
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I suppose I am a formalist as well, although, as a writer, I am glad to limitless freedom to express myself. If talented enough though, I would mimic the "poems old" for therein lies the true genius of artistic writing. I think that your line "a poem old has verses wrapped in gold" meets the classical standard. It is a very musical, artistic poem.
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Comment Written 28-Jan-2018
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Thank you Debbie. Most honored. tom
