Tilting at Windmills
When faith runs out48 total reviews
Comment from IndianaIrish
Love this wonderful faith poem, Tony. Superb title, Alliteration, rhymes, and fantastic words used to tell this story with imagery and metaphors. Oh, and love the word skeedaddle! Best wishes in the contest.
Smiles,
Karyn :-)
reply by the author on 29-Mar-2018
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Love this wonderful faith poem, Tony. Superb title, Alliteration, rhymes, and fantastic words used to tell this story with imagery and metaphors. Oh, and love the word skeedaddle! Best wishes in the contest.
Smiles,
Karyn :-)
Comment Written 29-Mar-2018
reply by the author on 29-Mar-2018
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Thank you so much, Karyn. Lovely words and shining stars! What a great start to the Easter holiday!
Comment from Swampfox1
Interesting prose. I like it and the words fall just right sometime. I like the very beginning of it . " How wildly wind-shanked windows rattle,
the terror of the banshee battle,
the storm surge seeps through weeping cracks,
to tear apart established facts." Makes me think. Thanks for sharing.
reply by the author on 28-Mar-2018
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Interesting prose. I like it and the words fall just right sometime. I like the very beginning of it . " How wildly wind-shanked windows rattle,
the terror of the banshee battle,
the storm surge seeps through weeping cracks,
to tear apart established facts." Makes me think. Thanks for sharing.
Comment Written 27-Mar-2018
reply by the author on 28-Mar-2018
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Interesting that you should have considered this to be prose. It does have an unusual rhyme scheme, I admit! Glad that it made you think, anyway. Best wishes, Tony
Comment from Giddy Nielsen-Sweep
This is a wonderful poem, Tony, full of fabulous alliteration and metaphor. Of course it took me several readings but between Peter and I we read and extracted it's poetically beautiful meaning. Giddy
reply by the author on 26-Mar-2018
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This is a wonderful poem, Tony, full of fabulous alliteration and metaphor. Of course it took me several readings but between Peter and I we read and extracted it's poetically beautiful meaning. Giddy
Comment Written 26-Mar-2018
reply by the author on 26-Mar-2018
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Many thanks for the accolade of stars! I spent quite a while fiddling with this one. I hope it wasn't too obscure! Best wishes, Tony
Comment from Katya
Oh I really enjoyed this! Enough sensory description to get me well-involved, and a story to to too! But DOES he skedaddle? Or does he stand fast? Or is medical leave available? Questions for the ages. Thanks for the entertainment. It's good work.
reply by the author on 28-Mar-2018
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Oh I really enjoyed this! Enough sensory description to get me well-involved, and a story to to too! But DOES he skedaddle? Or does he stand fast? Or is medical leave available? Questions for the ages. Thanks for the entertainment. It's good work.
Comment Written 26-Mar-2018
reply by the author on 28-Mar-2018
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Again, many thanks for your review, Swampfox. I'm guessing that he gets the hell out of there! Best wishes, Tony
Comment from antonieta
Very good poem: The choice of words are connotative;the visual imagery,; alliteration, assonance and rhyme scheme, are elements of poetry that you excell thanks for sharing
Antonieta
reply by the author on 28-Mar-2018
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Very good poem: The choice of words are connotative;the visual imagery,; alliteration, assonance and rhyme scheme, are elements of poetry that you excell thanks for sharing
Antonieta
Comment Written 26-Mar-2018
reply by the author on 28-Mar-2018
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Many thanks for stopping by to review, Antonieta. I am most appreciative of your kind comments. Best wishes, Tony
Comment from Pearl Edwards
Very clever poem Tony, starting out very dramatically with the -terror of the banshee battle - and ending up with him skedaddling. Great work, haven't heard that one for a while. Great use of alliteration throughout, and a great read. Love the pic,
cheers
valda
reply by the author on 28-Mar-2018
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Very clever poem Tony, starting out very dramatically with the -terror of the banshee battle - and ending up with him skedaddling. Great work, haven't heard that one for a while. Great use of alliteration throughout, and a great read. Love the pic,
cheers
valda
Comment Written 26-Mar-2018
reply by the author on 28-Mar-2018
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Many thanks for stopping by to review, Valda. I am most appreciative of your kind comments and award of six stars. Best wishes, Tony
Comment from Curly Girly
Ha! I loved your poem, Tony.
Eh! What a creepy image. The poem started off so serious but then it ended in these amusing last lines:
he is tempted by the devil
to genuflect, and then skedaddle.
'Skedaddle'--just love it.
Nicole
reply by the author on 28-Mar-2018
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Ha! I loved your poem, Tony.
Eh! What a creepy image. The poem started off so serious but then it ended in these amusing last lines:
he is tempted by the devil
to genuflect, and then skedaddle.
'Skedaddle'--just love it.
Nicole
Comment Written 25-Mar-2018
reply by the author on 28-Mar-2018
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Many thanks for stopping by to review, Nicole. I am most appreciative of your kind comments and your six star award. Yes, skedaddle is a fine word and has the advantage of nearly rhyming with devil! Best wishes, Tony
Comment from June Sargent
Yes there is a storm surge these days that threaten to tear apart established facts. And trying to sort fact from fiction is like tilting at windmills. I would probably skedaddle - but without genuflecting...well done.
reply by the author on 28-Mar-2018
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Yes there is a storm surge these days that threaten to tear apart established facts. And trying to sort fact from fiction is like tilting at windmills. I would probably skedaddle - but without genuflecting...well done.
Comment Written 25-Mar-2018
reply by the author on 28-Mar-2018
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Many thanks for stopping by to review, June. Yes, there is quite a bit of relevance to current events in this! Best wishes, Tony
Comment from Bill Schott
This poem, Tilting at Windmills, borrows our ideas of Don Quixote and those using liquid courage to battle forth until the wiser reasoning of fleeing is reached. He who turns and runs away, lives to run another day.
reply by the author on 25-Mar-2018
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This poem, Tilting at Windmills, borrows our ideas of Don Quixote and those using liquid courage to battle forth until the wiser reasoning of fleeing is reached. He who turns and runs away, lives to run another day.
Comment Written 25-Mar-2018
reply by the author on 25-Mar-2018
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Many thanks for your kind response, Bill. Very much appreciated! There is much in the character of Don Quixote to like. Best wishes, Tony.
Comment from meeshu
very,very good. the La Mancha Man is one of my favorite characters in literature. we all have a little "Don" inside. keep it going T. great stuff. NOTE to myself: use SKEDADDLE in one of mine.....meeshu
reply by the author on 25-Mar-2018
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very,very good. the La Mancha Man is one of my favorite characters in literature. we all have a little "Don" inside. keep it going T. great stuff. NOTE to myself: use SKEDADDLE in one of mine.....meeshu
Comment Written 25-Mar-2018
reply by the author on 25-Mar-2018
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Many thanks for your kind response, meeshu. Very much appreciated! Best wishes, Tony.
