Cut Flowers
A Shakespearean Sonnet for the contest59 total reviews
Comment from ggdad
Excellent, Tony. I am a bit of a romantic also and, therefore, believe that love requires nourishment, nurture. Sometimes we try to skip important steps in the overall love cycle. Occasionally, it actually works. More often, however, it simply crashes and burns. As you say it "must be allowed to grow". This is a very thoughtful poem, well written and, ultimately, correct.
reply by the author on 08-Jun-2018
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Excellent, Tony. I am a bit of a romantic also and, therefore, believe that love requires nourishment, nurture. Sometimes we try to skip important steps in the overall love cycle. Occasionally, it actually works. More often, however, it simply crashes and burns. As you say it "must be allowed to grow". This is a very thoughtful poem, well written and, ultimately, correct.
Comment Written 06-Jun-2018
reply by the author on 08-Jun-2018
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Many thanks, ggdad, for dropping by to review. Much appreciated. Best wishes, Tony
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My pleasure.
Comment from karenina
A pristine sonnet of amazing rhyme, depth, theme and iambic pentameter....every line a gift to the reader. Better when read a second and third time, to fully immerse one's senses and sense in the message held herein.
Karenina
reply by the author on 08-Jun-2018
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A pristine sonnet of amazing rhyme, depth, theme and iambic pentameter....every line a gift to the reader. Better when read a second and third time, to fully immerse one's senses and sense in the message held herein.
Karenina
Comment Written 06-Jun-2018
reply by the author on 08-Jun-2018
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Many thanks, Karenina, for dropping by to review. Much appreciated. Best wishes, Tony
Comment from flylikeaneagle
Tony: I was watching, "You've got talent." Then, I reread your
amazing poem. Yes, plants and people need love and ability to
grow. Too many people like to abuse children. I try to encourage
and teach people to fly. I've helped many women get out of their
bedroom and have girl dates. In other words - they were suicidal
and I've helped them find their joy. Yes, spread the love. Great poem.
The joy of the Lord is our strength. Someday, we'll be walking in God's'
garden and meeting our loved ones. God bless. flylikeaneagle
reply by the author on 09-Jun-2018
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Tony: I was watching, "You've got talent." Then, I reread your
amazing poem. Yes, plants and people need love and ability to
grow. Too many people like to abuse children. I try to encourage
and teach people to fly. I've helped many women get out of their
bedroom and have girl dates. In other words - they were suicidal
and I've helped them find their joy. Yes, spread the love. Great poem.
The joy of the Lord is our strength. Someday, we'll be walking in God's'
garden and meeting our loved ones. God bless. flylikeaneagle
Comment Written 05-Jun-2018
reply by the author on 09-Jun-2018
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Very many thanks for your review, Nancy, and for the six stars. Both much appreciated, as are your lovely comments. It sounds like wonderful work that you are doing in an area of desperate need.
All the best, Tony
Comment from BeasPeas
Hi Tony. First of all, the photo of you with your granddaughter is top notch. It looks as if you two are a happy pair. Your sonnet is very nicely composed. We attempt to take the garden into the house to enjoy it, but it only leads to flowers dying more quickly. Best to leave them for their short glorious lives where they've bloomed in the first place. Ending couplet is super. Much luck in the contest. Marilyn
reply by the author on 05-Jun-2018
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Hi Tony. First of all, the photo of you with your granddaughter is top notch. It looks as if you two are a happy pair. Your sonnet is very nicely composed. We attempt to take the garden into the house to enjoy it, but it only leads to flowers dying more quickly. Best to leave them for their short glorious lives where they've bloomed in the first place. Ending couplet is super. Much luck in the contest. Marilyn
Comment Written 05-Jun-2018
reply by the author on 05-Jun-2018
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Very many thanks for your review, Marilyn. We're off next week to spend some time in New York with my daughter and granddaughter, and then on to the UK with them to introduce her to her cousins - so I probably shan't be on site very much for a couple of months. Back in August if I survive it all!
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Well--you had better survive--and have some fun, too. Then you can come back and write all about it. Stay safe. Marilyn
Comment from CD Richards
Since swearing off decaying animal flesh some years ago, plants have been pretty much my only dietary choice, and now you make me feel guilt over that. Are you trying to starve me to death?
In all seriousness, I do think it a bit frivolous and mean to decapitate a plant which would look far more lovely intact, and in a pot. I suppose, at least, the plant can grow another head, unlike a pig or a steer.
Perhaps this is tongue-in-cheek, perhaps not; but I think it makes a valid point, and apart from that it is just beautifully phrased, with excellent rhyme and meter. So, it's a six from me.
Craig
reply by the author on 05-Jun-2018
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Since swearing off decaying animal flesh some years ago, plants have been pretty much my only dietary choice, and now you make me feel guilt over that. Are you trying to starve me to death?
In all seriousness, I do think it a bit frivolous and mean to decapitate a plant which would look far more lovely intact, and in a pot. I suppose, at least, the plant can grow another head, unlike a pig or a steer.
Perhaps this is tongue-in-cheek, perhaps not; but I think it makes a valid point, and apart from that it is just beautifully phrased, with excellent rhyme and meter. So, it's a six from me.
Craig
Comment Written 05-Jun-2018
reply by the author on 05-Jun-2018
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Thanks for the sixer, Craig, and for an entertaining review - both appreciated. Do keep eating the flowers and berries - and passing the seeds. It is those who gratuitously cut down the flower of youth that I'm after. All the best, Tony
Comment from catch22
Hi Tony, this is a profound write about the little deals we cut with our moral codes to sacrifice our innocence for the sake of expediency. I think you touched on profound idea that men justify their crimes rather than atone for them. Outstanding use of the sonnet form to bring the argument full circle. I think this will be a strong contender for the contest.
reply by the author on 05-Jun-2018
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Hi Tony, this is a profound write about the little deals we cut with our moral codes to sacrifice our innocence for the sake of expediency. I think you touched on profound idea that men justify their crimes rather than atone for them. Outstanding use of the sonnet form to bring the argument full circle. I think this will be a strong contender for the contest.
Comment Written 05-Jun-2018
reply by the author on 05-Jun-2018
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Very many thanks for your review and for the six stars, Pam. It's a delight to receive such a thoughtful review as this. Few penetrated beyond the surface meaning. I shall be off-site for a while as we are shortly going overseas to visit friends and family in the US and the UK. Back in August if I survive the ordeal! Best wishes, Tony
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Hi Tony, you are very welcome. I enjoyed the poem very much and wish you safe travels on your trip.
Comment from Swampfox1
The verse I like the best is: " The blossoming of love is best enjoyed
when it's allowed to grow, from seed to seed,
for nature's precious cycle is destroyed
when youth alone is plucked, to sate our greed.". .
Let me say, first of all, that I do understand your point. The Word of God states that , "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven". And God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food." And it was so." Thereby, and I question this lightly, how can you say it is murder to a plant when it was given to man? Some flowers are edible. All are enjoyable. But, I do understand your point. Once your grow plants and nuture them it seems like murder to cut things off just for simple enjoyment, however, any other way it would simply wither and die. Thank you and have a great day.
reply by the author on 05-Jun-2018
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The verse I like the best is: " The blossoming of love is best enjoyed
when it's allowed to grow, from seed to seed,
for nature's precious cycle is destroyed
when youth alone is plucked, to sate our greed.". .
Let me say, first of all, that I do understand your point. The Word of God states that , "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven". And God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food." And it was so." Thereby, and I question this lightly, how can you say it is murder to a plant when it was given to man? Some flowers are edible. All are enjoyable. But, I do understand your point. Once your grow plants and nuture them it seems like murder to cut things off just for simple enjoyment, however, any other way it would simply wither and die. Thank you and have a great day.
Comment Written 05-Jun-2018
reply by the author on 05-Jun-2018
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Very many thanks for your review, Swampfox. The general idea of this was metaphoric. Murder, whilst too strong a word for plants cut down in their prime, is used in a hyperbolic sense in the metaphor for young life which develops in the second half of the sonnet. All the best,
Tony
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You're welcome and , Ahhhh, thanks for enlightening me. Cool metaphor now that I think of it. Cool. Smiling :)
Comment from A. Willow Bends
I will never pick another flower! I really like this and what a perspective to present. Creatively done and beautiful pic to match. Great job and good luck!
Wendy
reply by the author on 05-Jun-2018
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I will never pick another flower! I really like this and what a perspective to present. Creatively done and beautiful pic to match. Great job and good luck!
Wendy
Comment Written 05-Jun-2018
reply by the author on 05-Jun-2018
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Many thanks, Wendy. I appreciate your comments. Keep picking the flowers! Best wishes, Tony
Comment from Dolly'sPoems
Oh dear Tony, I've been out this morning and picked some wild flowers! Am I now a murderess? He he he, a wonderful sonnet and I love seeing flowers growing in the garden and admiring them and seeing them grow. I had sunflowers last year and they gave me such joy, a beautifully written sonnet, love Dolly x
reply by the author on 05-Jun-2018
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Oh dear Tony, I've been out this morning and picked some wild flowers! Am I now a murderess? He he he, a wonderful sonnet and I love seeing flowers growing in the garden and admiring them and seeing them grow. I had sunflowers last year and they gave me such joy, a beautifully written sonnet, love Dolly x
Comment Written 05-Jun-2018
reply by the author on 05-Jun-2018
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Many thanks, Dolly. I appreciate your comments. Keep picking the flowers! Best wishes, Tony
Comment from Joy Graham
This is a lovely sonnet for the contest. Flowers and romance are the best theme to write a sonnet about. I feel guilty for enjoying a bouquet of flowers occasionally when given to me as a gift. I'm not big on cutting my garden flowers and bringing them inside. Comparing cut flowers to romance is an interesting idea. You present it with authority so I believe you. You followed the sonnet rules perfectly. I like your Volta in the third stanza, it's not the usual but or yet. I like your creativity here. You are a top sonnet author in my books. Best wishes in the contest.
Joy xx
reply by the author on 05-Jun-2018
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This is a lovely sonnet for the contest. Flowers and romance are the best theme to write a sonnet about. I feel guilty for enjoying a bouquet of flowers occasionally when given to me as a gift. I'm not big on cutting my garden flowers and bringing them inside. Comparing cut flowers to romance is an interesting idea. You present it with authority so I believe you. You followed the sonnet rules perfectly. I like your Volta in the third stanza, it's not the usual but or yet. I like your creativity here. You are a top sonnet author in my books. Best wishes in the contest.
Joy xx
Comment Written 05-Jun-2018
reply by the author on 05-Jun-2018
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Many thanks, Joy. I appreciate your comments. Congratulations on your win in the Crown of Sonnets sequence. Well deserved! Best wishes, Tony
