Old Poetry Poetry • Poets • Essays • Forums •

SadmanJim

  • Last seen on Mar 21 4:08 PM 2006. Member since February 14, 2006.
  • I have 4 comments, 72 poems

My other items

1 - 3 of 7   Show all

Guest Book

Subject:

Comments

1 - 4 of 4
  • on On Losing A Pencil In French River (Sonnet XIII.) by George Jehoshaphat Mountain , on September 16
    THIS is why I like to click the "old poem of the day" link. It opens me up to poets and poems I have never heard of. It brought a smile to my face actually, as I could almost see the poet grumbling about the lost tool and frantically searching for another. And the humility in the final couplet is just perfect. When I have more time and am not at work, I'll want to check out more of his work.

    Write On!
    jIM

  • on maggie and milly and molly and may by e e cummings, on April 17
    Thank you for posting this as old poem of the day on 4/17/09. I will now want to read more of this legend's work.

    Jim

  • on Ah! Love Ye One Another Well! by Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel, on April 16

    Wow

    Sounds like a toast a Father or Father-In-Law might give at a wedding reception. At the very least, it reminds me of advice from an elder made wise by time and experience. It carries some bitterness, as though the speaker were admonishing the young to not make the same mistakes {he/she} did. It's almost like a darker take on "If Tomorrow Never Comes"... the country song by Garth Brooks. [though I DO realize this piece was written MUCH earlier, and some might say, much better.]
    All in all, I'm impressed and will want to read more of this Author's work when I have time.

    jIM

  • on Life Is Fine by Langston Hughes, on January 25, 2005
    This is a GR8 example of why Hughes is one of America's...no, the World's great poets.
    Very accessible style of writing = more readers. Or it should, anyway.