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Free Verse Poetry

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Comment from Susanjohn
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And the best is yet to come!!!! ya gotta believe....everyday a blessing..wow Michael, your words really get to me. I'm running out of descriptive narrative to review your awesome work!!!

 Comment Written 12-Aug-2016


reply by the author on 13-Aug-2016
    I'm just honored, Susan, that you'd bother to go find them. Thank you so much. You have me looking through this book myself now and remembering some of these. It's been a long time. Wow. I can't believe I've written so much. It doesn't see like that long ago I was a newbie here. August of 2013. Not THAT long ago. Now I'm an old veteran. LOL mikey
reply by Susanjohn on 13-Aug-2016
    I've been going to recognized and all time best works and finding just some amazing pieces!!! Yours are listed..of course. I so enjoy your work.
reply by the author on 13-Aug-2016
    Ahhhh. Coolness. I think I shall go and do likewise. Thanks. :))
Comment from Megalips
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Really one hell of a poem, Mikey...sorry I didn't see it sooner, but was just checking results on Free Verse and here you are at #2, so congratulations....really awesome!

 Comment Written 17-Aug-2015

Comment from justafan
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MMMM....now how did I miss this? Being a devoted Mikey fan how could this come to pass. I will get my people to call your people...lol

This is super and you know I love all your work. And hey, 60's are the NEW 40's so lighten up...lol still a lot of life left in us, Mikey :)

Always,
Missy

 Comment Written 16-Aug-2015

Comment from I am Cat
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Well.... Look there! Look at the bottom!! Looks like someone DID affect change !
Did YOU do that? Or did Tom? I LOVE it!

This poem is awesome! (now... has someone gone back and changed all the ones BEFORE It? LOL

A beautifully written poem on aging.. (and you know I love those.) to top it all off, a free verse... NOW you have my heart . :)
Well done Mikey! It's beautiful...
And congratulations... for the second, AND for getting some things changed!
Well done!
Cat

 Comment Written 16-Aug-2015


reply by the author on 16-Aug-2015
    Actually, I, along with my somewhat large ego, copied and pasted the stuff at the bottom. Hahaha. It looks pretty though and ALL award winners should have that I think.
    So pleased you liked this. This is my natural style and all I ever wrote before I came here. Learning all the other stuff, sonnets, haikus et al has been a big help though in improving my free verse though.
    Tom will come around. I'm relentless. Do you know Gloria? Her piece is awesome and our styles (and yours) are similar. Thanks so much. It's raining stars! mikey
reply by I am Cat on 16-Aug-2015
    LOL, as it should be! I think I'll go back and put MY little ribbons on mine... think he'll care? I love the idea! Booya! Good for you! it looks marvelous! LOL, yes, I know Gloria, she's fabulous! And I am honored to be in the same sentence with the two of you! This is amazing, I loved it!
    If I hadn't had 102 reviews in the past 24 hours to go through I would have given it the old CatCrit, and will most likely go back and do it over... and do it justice as it's amazing... I've just finished up the replies to reviews... and yours is the ONLY review I've done in the last 24hours. hows that? wow.
    I'm exhausted just from replying (not that i"m complaining,) I'll need that surgery just so I can relax.
    I didn't want to leave it to after it all...
    Well done, Mikey!
Comment from Realist101
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Congratulations Michael! This reflects my feelings well at the age of 61. WHERE do the days and years go? Sigh. Lovely work especially coming from a man's view. Don't mean to be sexist tho. Nice job! :) Suse

 Comment Written 15-Aug-2015

Comment from nelliesellie
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I love the picture. I love the poem. Time slips past us. It seems like a blink of the eye. The things we are grateful for changes and the list gets shorter. Can a ripple in time add to our lives? Would we want it? Great work.

 Comment Written 11-Aug-2015


reply by the author on 13-Aug-2015
    I always love your analysis. Poetic in its own right. Thanks for all the stars. I'm still laughing at your husband at the doctor. Hahaha. I'll try and stop by and review. But, I'm only here for a few minutes here and there. I did read and LOVE IT though. mikey
Comment from Green Lake Girl
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Good job with this free verse poem, Mikey. I hope you do well in the contest. I like how you show the passage of time. My favorite part:

It seems all my screams are just for me
for I'm alone
no one to hear
clearly pity is my quest

 Comment Written 11-Aug-2015


reply by the author on 13-Aug-2015
    I'm so pleased you enjoyed. Glad you liked that particular passage. Funny I felt that way when I was young, but not anymore. :)
    Hoping to find some FanStory time in the near future. mikey
Comment from Gypsy Blue Rose
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Legacy
by michaelcahill

The young man's heart is full of sorrow and he feels alone as he grows older and older and wonders what will tomorrow bring.

 Comment Written 09-Aug-2015


reply by the author on 13-Aug-2015
    Yes, exactly. Thank you kindly. mikey
Comment from crzypnter
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Hi mikey,
It's been a little while. Glad to see you back here and for your writing as I have said before. Regardless of a poem or story you are the Forest Gump of writing. Great free verse my friend.
God bless always

August

 Comment Written 09-Aug-2015


reply by the author on 13-Aug-2015
    Hi August. Great to hear from you. I pop in once in a while. So busy this year. I really miss last year when I just sat around writing. :)
    Loved your last piece and sorry I didn't have time to review. Hopefully I'll get some more time to spend some time here soon. Thanks for the great review. mikey
Comment from seaglass
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Ah yeah, the stages of life. I think my most unhappy years were my teens and twenties. One feels pain so deeply then. This poem invites ponder.

 Comment Written 09-Aug-2015


reply by the author on 13-Aug-2015
    Me too. I laugh when I read my poetry from those years. It's all dark and worrisome. I really thought I was ancient when I turned twenty-one. Ha!
    Now, I think I'm young. Insanity is soooo underrated. :)
    mikey
reply by seaglass on 13-Aug-2015
    Remember bob Dylan's famous line, "I was older then, I'm younger now."