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Read 'Um Like a Book

Our faces are novels still in progress Each year we add another line or two Some authors decide to erase the lines they're unhappy with, fearing bad reviews

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Andrea Dietrich

Date: 4/19/2014 10:00:00 PM

oh this one that I loved from before. Good to see it on the winners' list. Congratulations, my friend.

Poet Destroyer A

Date: 4/18/2014 4:37:00 PM

Hello Tim, my friend... loving this one again..... Congratulations,, ... By the way I have something to say to all who supported my ANY POEM # 19 contest. Shame on me, Shame on me! Please forgive me, for not taking the time, to CONGRATULATE and adore all the winning poems for a second or third time. I AM VERY LATE:(-- I was a little mad at the world. However, this is my winning list, I will give everyone the same love and support. I'm dropping by with a Copy Paste note from the bottom of my heart. I am sorry, it's not like me, to walk away, as if nothing. Truly, I appreciate every winning poem, and HM. LOVE LINDA

Paul Callus

Date: 4/17/2014 6:17:00 AM

No...make-up can never be the answer !! clever write :) // congrats on fine placing. // paul

Poet Destroyer A

Date: 10/10/2013 5:07:00 PM

Hello Tim, love the double impact winning poem... xox~ Linda

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 10/6/2013 1:38:00 AM

I would like to erase mine. The wrinkles anyway. haha. LOVE this, Tim! a very well deserved win.

Tim Ryerson
Date: 4/18/2014 4:44:00 PM

Either you've already erased them or don't have any yet cause I sure don't see any...Thanks for the comment my friend

Skat A

Date: 10/5/2013 8:37:00 PM

yup yup.amazing ......... love ~SKAT~

Poet Destroyer A

Date: 6/7/2013 9:39:00 AM

Tim, enjoyable ... congratulations with your winning poem... Linda

Judy Konos

Date: 6/3/2013 4:44:00 PM

Well that's a WOW WOW Tim! thanks

Heather Ober

Date: 6/3/2013 1:22:00 PM

Tim, as always, you have written a clever poem full of honesty and food for thought. Awesome write, my friend! Congrats on your win in my contest :)

Carrie Richards

Date: 6/3/2013 1:00:00 PM

I can't help but smile at the truth and irony......such is human nature!! (I'm too chicken to go under the knife.....so vanity has no business in my life!! LOL)!!!!

Delysia Hendricks

Date: 5/27/2013 5:58:00 PM

Good analogy, Tim. With all my lines you'd never finish my book. Licia :-)

Timothy Hicks

Date: 5/27/2013 9:55:00 AM

Wow, Tim... speechless here! This was so well put together and made me think. I wrote a similar piece on the topic... don't think I posted it though. I still don't understand it when men dye their hair cause they don't like looking old? Back then it was a sign of wisdom and experience... an honor to live nice and long... why try to cover it up?

Nette Onclaud

Date: 5/25/2013 4:48:00 PM

gutsy work, tim... we don;t anymore know if a face is natural or not... great flawless lines ( pun?) without wrinkles.... fine job!..:) huggs

Kathryn Collins

Date: 5/25/2013 11:27:00 AM

Tim "Each year we add a line or two" or three or four or twenty or twenty five. Didn't see the first one, but this is divine. love, Kathy

Karen Anglesey

Date: 5/23/2013 8:05:00 PM

The realistic elements blended with the satire made this poem really speak. Well written !

Ilene Bauer

Date: 5/23/2013 3:36:00 PM

very clever, tim!

Donna Jones

Date: 5/23/2013 2:56:00 PM

Well...some of us just take what we get..ha...the :paperback: version cause we can't afford the leather hardbound cover!..very good poem Tim...thanks

Eileen Manassian

Date: 5/23/2013 1:54:00 AM

Absolutely awesome! To my favorites you go!!!! :)

Nato Calubiran

Date: 5/22/2013 11:46:00 PM

bad reviews... arghhh. >:(