Heart Crafted Poems -2021
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Comment from Sherry Asbury
You are so clever. I can, fortunately, answer your question: any 16-year-old boy with a love of the automotive!! This is a very diverse and fine poem. I just love the verbose and serious first part - followed by a frog-flop for the ending. Nicely done!!
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You are so clever. I can, fortunately, answer your question: any 16-year-old boy with a love of the automotive!! This is a very diverse and fine poem. I just love the verbose and serious first part - followed by a frog-flop for the ending. Nicely done!!
Comment Written 05-Dec-2021
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Sherry, a smile back to you! 🙃🙃🤔
Comment from Mrs. KT
Hello JLR!
Wonderful perspective, and it is one I embrace!
When I was teaching, the vocational students were often referred to as "Carhartt Boys."
Well, they may not have been able to develop a proper thesis or identify symbolism in The Catcher in the Rye, but I always knew if I was stranded along a dark country road in northern Michigan, they would be the first to help me out... which they did on more than one occasion!
One small edit:
of most mortal's (mortals') decline is perpetuated,
Thank you for sharing!
diane
reply by the author on 05-Dec-2021
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Hello JLR!
Wonderful perspective, and it is one I embrace!
When I was teaching, the vocational students were often referred to as "Carhartt Boys."
Well, they may not have been able to develop a proper thesis or identify symbolism in The Catcher in the Rye, but I always knew if I was stranded along a dark country road in northern Michigan, they would be the first to help me out... which they did on more than one occasion!
One small edit:
of most mortal's (mortals') decline is perpetuated,
Thank you for sharing!
diane
Comment Written 05-Dec-2021
reply by the author on 05-Dec-2021
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Hello Diane, thank you for sharing your experience. I, of course, always appreciate your active support in my efforts. As a high school student, I was one of the "Carhartt Boys". it was until I entered college on the GI bill that I discovered such classics as The Catcher in the Rye. 🙏🙏🎶🎶👍
Comment from Susan Newell
Your lament is the cry of many of us older folks who remember when people could actually do things. Doing away with vocational education in high schools began the demise. I've been somewhat of a "handywoman" most of my life. I just like creating and fixing things. But I didn't have the training to deal with auto repair (and I really don't like to get dirty) or to learn how to do wiring. I could fix a leak in a copper pipe, if I had to. Younger generations have no idea what it takes to run a dairy farm, and many don't even know that milk comes from a cow. Fortunately, Mike Rowe has a soap box and a foundation to get more people back into the trades.
A few years ago a neighbor came by with his seventeen-year-old autistic son, asking if I had any work for him, assuring me that his son was high on the spectrum. So I hired him to help me do some painting. He was very tall and could do the ceiling of a room I was painting. Just an absolutely sweet and delightful young man, eager to help. I had one nail that had dropped, so I handed him a hammer and asked him to tap it back in. He lifted the hammer, touched the claw end to the nail and looked at me quizzically. I had to show him how to hold and use a hammer. It wasn't because he wasn't fully capable of learning it -- his father had never shown him how! Sheesh! I was using at least a toy hammer by the time I was two, and real tools certainly by the age of four.
reply by the author on 05-Dec-2021
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Your lament is the cry of many of us older folks who remember when people could actually do things. Doing away with vocational education in high schools began the demise. I've been somewhat of a "handywoman" most of my life. I just like creating and fixing things. But I didn't have the training to deal with auto repair (and I really don't like to get dirty) or to learn how to do wiring. I could fix a leak in a copper pipe, if I had to. Younger generations have no idea what it takes to run a dairy farm, and many don't even know that milk comes from a cow. Fortunately, Mike Rowe has a soap box and a foundation to get more people back into the trades.
A few years ago a neighbor came by with his seventeen-year-old autistic son, asking if I had any work for him, assuring me that his son was high on the spectrum. So I hired him to help me do some painting. He was very tall and could do the ceiling of a room I was painting. Just an absolutely sweet and delightful young man, eager to help. I had one nail that had dropped, so I handed him a hammer and asked him to tap it back in. He lifted the hammer, touched the claw end to the nail and looked at me quizzically. I had to show him how to hold and use a hammer. It wasn't because he wasn't fully capable of learning it -- his father had never shown him how! Sheesh! I was using at least a toy hammer by the time I was two, and real tools certainly by the age of four.
Comment Written 05-Dec-2021
reply by the author on 05-Dec-2021
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Susan, thank you so much for your thoughts and especially about your autistic "handyman". We just have lost the art of "teaching" the simplest task to our young children. We have become a nation not so resilient and self sufficient as a result. I smile that you could supervise the Rosie Riveters, if the occasion would present itself. 😃😃🙏
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Just give me a pneumatic rivet gun!
Comment from tfawcus
Those skills are disappearing fast with the computerisation of everything. I occasionally go to meets of vintage cars. The enthusiasts gradually grow older along with their proud owners. Sad.
equalitarianism / egalitarianism?
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Those skills are disappearing fast with the computerisation of everything. I occasionally go to meets of vintage cars. The enthusiasts gradually grow older along with their proud owners. Sad.
equalitarianism / egalitarianism?
Comment Written 05-Dec-2021
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Hi Tony, great to hear you love to see those vintage cars, Definitions of equalitarianism. the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality. synonyms: egalitarianism.
Comment from Janet Foor
I enjoyed reading your lament about the '66 Chevy Nova. Today's cars do run much more efficiently but there is a beauty to one of the classics.
Well done
Janet
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I enjoyed reading your lament about the '66 Chevy Nova. Today's cars do run much more efficiently but there is a beauty to one of the classics.
Well done
Janet
Comment Written 04-Dec-2021
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Thank you for your review Janet.
Comment from writer723
I really enjoyed reading this touching poem. Your scenario fully demonstrated the many questions ans mysteries we have of life without definite answers. I felt an emotional response from this tale and I also found it very moving. Your poetry is very thought-provoking. Wonderful writing! It deserves six stars if I had any left. God bless you!
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I really enjoyed reading this touching poem. Your scenario fully demonstrated the many questions ans mysteries we have of life without definite answers. I felt an emotional response from this tale and I also found it very moving. Your poetry is very thought-provoking. Wonderful writing! It deserves six stars if I had any left. God bless you!
Comment Written 04-Dec-2021
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Thank you for the comments and the virtual six. 🙏🙏🎶🎶
Comment from Raul1
It is an interesting poem. I don't know who can change the spark plugs, but it was nice trying. Little humor there. Excellent work! No mistakes found. Good luck!
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It is an interesting poem. I don't know who can change the spark plugs, but it was nice trying. Little humor there. Excellent work! No mistakes found. Good luck!
Comment Written 04-Dec-2021
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Thanks Raul, I appreciate the levity in your reply.
Comment from Giddy Nielsen-Sweep
Hi there, you must be my age because you are wondering about the same things as I am. They are precious, but they are still only things and we must leave all of those precious things behind. They belong to somebody else now, and we relinquish our ownership, do we not? Thank you for your memories and thoughts, Giddy
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Hi there, you must be my age because you are wondering about the same things as I am. They are precious, but they are still only things and we must leave all of those precious things behind. They belong to somebody else now, and we relinquish our ownership, do we not? Thank you for your memories and thoughts, Giddy
Comment Written 04-Dec-2021
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Giddy, perhaps, I am knocking on the door of 72, pondering ? now what about all this stuff, it seems none of the next generations what or even find any value in. 🙃
Comment from SimianSavant
Subtitle is funny, because of its contrast to your hilariously over-done essay
How dare I, a mere human **insert comma here - if not, "human" is in danger of being read as an adjective of "question" (changing the latter from a verb to a noun) rather than "human" being your noun. Almost wondering if you created this potential error on purpose**
question accession
Your writing is super wordy, and I get that you are doing it for a kind of satire of how elitist people talk. It is just hard to digest.
when no longer am I? **now you are clearly toying with us
Well, when I have some more time I'll look at some of your other writing to see how much this was just trolling. I do my fair share of trolling around here. Thanks for the read!
reply by the author on 05-Dec-2021
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Subtitle is funny, because of its contrast to your hilariously over-done essay
How dare I, a mere human **insert comma here - if not, "human" is in danger of being read as an adjective of "question" (changing the latter from a verb to a noun) rather than "human" being your noun. Almost wondering if you created this potential error on purpose**
question accession
Your writing is super wordy, and I get that you are doing it for a kind of satire of how elitist people talk. It is just hard to digest.
when no longer am I? **now you are clearly toying with us
Well, when I have some more time I'll look at some of your other writing to see how much this was just trolling. I do my fair share of trolling around here. Thanks for the read!
Comment Written 04-Dec-2021
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trolling is the cats pajamas,🙃🙃🙃
Comment from Ben Colder
Yes, and I remember the car and its glamour of the day. I had a fifty-four Mercury I loved, yellow & Green bubble top. I understand this, poet. Well done.
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Yes, and I remember the car and its glamour of the day. I had a fifty-four Mercury I loved, yellow & Green bubble top. I understand this, poet. Well done.
Comment Written 04-Dec-2021
reply by the author on 04-Dec-2021
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A thanks amen! Loved those muscle cars.
