Buttercup Dreams and Other Colors
When buttercups wore yellow-dusted coats,the splash of love was fresh, her steps were tiedto strings of pearl-puff dreams; unruly notesof life itself - for just a while - complied. Then windswept...
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Dear Lary,Your sonnet is so beautiful. The images you presented brought tears to my eyes. This sonnet really touched my heart.Thanks for posting.Best,Tamara B. Latham
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Hi Lary,Besides being beautiful, as TBL has mentioned, it is very moving. Excellent, and a bouquet for you!Merlin
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Oh Lary, this is truly beautiful and dear.I'll confess that, before reading it, the title struck me as slightly off-kilter, but it's growing on me. 'Buttercup Dreams and Colorful Schemes' popped into...
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Lary, this is so musical and chock-full of moving images. A sensitive composer ought to set it to music.Vaughn
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Tamara, I am moved by your response...thank you!Merlin - thanks for the bouquet!Mary, I fiddled around with titles, but kept coming back to this one.... Vaughn, what a lovely comment - I appreciate...
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Hi Lary,The development of thoughts is most impressive in this sonnet. Each quatrain is a stage - and the couplet really the finishing touch. Remarkable too, and typical of your poetry, the choice...
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Lary, This reminds me so much of my grandmother, who loved flowers, and the progress of her life. I wrote an elegy for her with a similar theme, (not a sonnet) one where the flowers of her youth...
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Hi Lary! Oh Lary what an absolutely gorgeous poem. One of the best I have read in a very long time. I am in love with this line "Faint scents that spilled from lavender sachets". Your are truly so...
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Crispin - thank you - I really appreciate your thoughts!Patrice - thanks for stopping by! I was thinking of the colors of our years, but the idea of the flowers on the grave is so delicate....I'm glad...
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Lary,This is really quite beautiful. Don't you love the sonnet form?If I had to produce a negative comment, it might be the distracting period in L6. Especially when the next word (With) is a possible...
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Peter, thank you!I was torn between 'with' and 'in' for the flecks of gold....and now I'm also thinking a semi-colon could work - since this quatrain covers one general period of time....Then...
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Lary - Some sonnets are built like a house...brick by brick - some, like a wall...stone by stone - some, like a pronouncement...word by word - yours reads as though it was born on a palette and...
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Lary,Back in my day (too many years to count) any English teacher who valued his or her tenure, would have whipped me around the gym with red-hot barbed wire for even considering what I'm about to...
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