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a good poem i enjoyed reading this one thanks for sharing

Re: sanctuary (Score: 1 ) by wordsmithwannabe on Saturday, June 09, 2012 (22:48:52)

thank you starstruck13, i'm glad you enjoyed this and i'm grateful for the read and comment


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Re: sanctuary (Score: 1 ) by electrictiger on Friday, June 15, 2012 (06:39:16)

>^__^<


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Re: sanctuary (Score: 1 ) by wordsmithwannabe on Friday, June 15, 2012 (11:58:59)

rawr.


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I love how you are able to breathe life into such a simple visual - it illuminates and brightens imagination beyond amazing... Phoebe

Re: sanctuary (Score: 1 ) by wordsmithwannabe on Saturday, June 09, 2012 (22:50:33)

oh sweet Phoebe, it always nice to hear your thoughts and have you grace my pages. thanks for the lovely comment, you're too much


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Beautifully subtle...
love it.
D.

Re: sanctuary (Score: 1 ) by wordsmithwannabe on Sunday, June 10, 2012 (05:24:39)

thanks D! glad you loved it, that means i'm doing something right


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I strongly approve. A terrific poem. Congrats.

Re: sanctuary (Score: 1 ) by wordsmithwannabe on Sunday, June 10, 2012 (05:25:57)

thank you Rory, i appreciate your help in the forums; it's always nice to have other poets to push us to excel and challenge what we think about our own work.


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Expressively tender. Finding the emotional link between candle and father, was beautiful. Well crafted my friend. A Master you are. dAVE

Re: sanctuary (Score: 1 ) by wordsmithwannabe on Sunday, June 10, 2012 (13:47:13)

oh gosh dAVE, that's quite the compliment. i'm hardly a master, more of an apprentice thanks for the comment my friend, take care.


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Very nice work, I enjoyed this a lot. It has a tenderness to it that many cannot write about without making it sound cheesy. You made it sound very calm and real.

Re: sanctuary (Score: 1 ) by wordsmithwannabe on Sunday, June 10, 2012 (13:49:01)

thanks Sam, this is yet another one of my poems that sprang from a dream; i hope it means something different for everyone, i tried to make it ambiguous on purpose for that very reason. thanks for stopping by, my fuchsialistic friend!


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Re: sanctuary (Score: 1 ) by FuchsiaFestival! on Sunday, June 10, 2012 (13:53:07)

yes, you're right. after giving it a second read, it does ring with an ambiguous quality. every candle may mean different things. are the candles the sanctuary or the idea of tying them with the father and son? it almost reads as sad to me now, like the forgiveness is part of the father's tears.


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Re: sanctuary (Score: 1 ) by wordsmithwannabe on Sunday, June 10, 2012 (14:02:59)

yep you so smart!


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chris, being Catholic (although fallen by the wayside as it were) - I got an entirely different meaning from this expressive piece than most others did. As I said, being kind of an ex-Catholic (although they say once a Catholic always a Catholic) - I had a vision of it being about a "father" (a priest) who is fighting perverse urges as the young man (perhaps an altar boy) waits for him? I know, I know, kind of sick, but oh well, thought I'd tell you my interpretation - LOL - whatever one gains from it, it is an AWESOME piece.

Sandy

Re: sanctuary (Score: 1 ) by wordsmithwannabe on Sunday, June 10, 2012 (16:33:08)

i'm glad you shared that interpretation! i had three different possible scenarios in mind when i wrote this, hoping that each individual reader would come up with his or her own idea of what the poem was about, and you hit on one of those. thanks for sharing that, it lets me know i did something right with this poem!


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Very nice piece of work. I sense a metaphor of life's tasks

Re: sanctuary (Score: 1 ) by wordsmithwannabe on Sunday, June 10, 2012 (20:50:24)

that is one possible interpretation, yes. thanks for the insightful comment!


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i like this one...short, but definitely finished.

Re: sanctuary (Score: 1 ) by wordsmithwannabe on Sunday, June 10, 2012 (20:50:56)

thanks cathy, good to see you on here again! and i'm diggin that avatar


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This is wonderful. Efficient and layered, full of implications.

Re: sanctuary (Score: 1 ) by wordsmithwannabe on Monday, June 11, 2012 (12:10:00)

thanks H. i'm grateful for your feedback in the forums, as always, and for the comment here. take care.


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