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Andrea Dietrich Date: 6/12/2012 9:36:00 PM BOY this is really good writing!! I have one like this except they all die. Loved your happy ending on yours. Can't believe I finally found one way down here that I had not yet seen, and it sure was a good' un.
Keith Bickerstaffe Date: 4/14/2012 2:43:00 PM Quick! Get a publisher!!! I love the second and fourth verses especially, no, EVERY stanza is a work of genius! Again, free flowing yet tight composition, glorious imagery and deft rhyming. I could hear, smell and taste every syllable... COOL BEANS! Love Keith
Sing Shanties Date: 3/31/2012 10:09:00 AM The beautifully crafted wind and waves of yer words are sweeping a fine tune about me head.
Joe Maverick Date: 10/29/2011 10:09:00 AM Making a return visit to this piece Mikkie and have enjoyed every word..
Zzzzz Zzzzz Date: 6/13/2011 7:17:00 AM A fine seafaring tale, well told. It reminds me, slightly, of some of Longfellow's great poems. Nice work. Kind regards, Robert.
James Foulk Date: 5/27/2011 1:30:00 PM very creative piece of fine work, enjoyed reading this one.
daver austin Date: 5/9/2011 7:46:00 AM Yes - to be read while listening to Debussy's La Mer or the storm movement from Scheherezade. And then the prayer of thanksgiving from Beethoven's Pastoral. The last four lines are marvelous, give the whole a mystical gray look. You be de greatest! Love, daver
Joe Maverick Date: 4/19/2011 2:12:00 PM well..! i am really impressed with this write, flying and inventive while (in its journey) through my awareness and my verdict is really good Mikki!
Elaine George Date: 4/9/2011 8:38:00 AM Hi Nikki, Thanks so much for your comment today. I have come back to visit this poem - one of my top favourites of all time. Hope you start posting again. Hope all is well with you. Elaine
Carol Sunshine Brown Date: 3/28/2011 5:15:00 AM Congratulations on your well deserved featured poem this week Michelle. Love, Carol
Joe Inca Date: 2/8/2011 11:25:00 PM I never get sick of reading this. In my opinion it should be featured every week, so no one misses it. Where's the suggestion box?
Elaine George Date: 5/30/2009 6:37:00 AM Hi Michelle, One of my favorite personifications of all time. A MASTERPIECE. Lainie
Anna-Marie Docherty Date: 5/30/2009 2:12:00 AM Wonderful piece of writing. Congratulations on having your poetry featured this week. Kindest thoughts, Anna-Marie.
L'nass Shango Date: 5/27/2009 5:50:00 AM Michelle, this is why I read poetry like a miner panning for gold ... every now and then the river exposes a load that makes the heart cheer ... this is an amazingly excellent write, I love it. Congratulations on being featured ... indeed great poet!
daver austin Date: 5/26/2009 5:37:00 AM This is compelling all the way through. Super effort, and congrats on the pick. Love, daver
Carol Sunshine Brown Date: 5/26/2009 4:33:00 AM Congratulations on your poetry being featured this week Michelle. Love, Carol
sharon weimer Date: 5/25/2009 5:26:00 PM So awesome to read again. Congrats on an amazing winning poem being featured once again! Love, Shar
Vince Suzadail Jr. Date: 5/25/2009 1:48:00 PM Congrats on this winning poem being re-featured. I hope all is going well and you're out there having fun. God Bless Mikki. Vince
Ernilando Tugaff Date: 5/25/2009 1:06:00 AM Knock, knock, knock. Hello Michelle my friend. How are you today? Well, congratulations on your featured poem. More success and power with your writing endeavor. Ernilando
Date: 5/24/2009 5:13:00 PM Just wanted to drop by and add congratulations on having your poem featured to my other comment. Another honor for this poem. Enjoy! Karen
Micaela Alseth Date: 2/18/2009 11:53:00 AM This is really beautiful. I'm really jealous of your ability to create perfect cadence and rhyme... My poems seem to always be really choppy and disorganized. I also love the image of the sea gathering her voice... It makes me think of roiling clouds gathering... Also thank you so much for your comments on my poems! I really appreciate them.
Sander Wolff Date: 1/13/2009 10:18:00 AM Was that a metaphor for a night of love-making?
Keith Bickerstaffe Date: 1/12/2009 10:15:00 AM So well conceived and rendered... magnificent imagery, rhyming and flow. Transcendent! Best wishes, Keith
Christie Moses Date: 1/12/2009 4:59:00 AM I just adore this! Wow to the imagery. You have an amazing talent, Mikki! I really need to read more of your stuff. So many awesome lines in this. Just outstanding! ^_^* Love and hugs, Christie*
Ryan Caidic Date: 7/25/2008 1:33:00 AM Unique and very interesting... Most often than not, nature gets to be positively depicted in run of the mill poems, this is an exception. With the way the 'orchestra' harmonized and the way it reached powerful climax, it seemed like the spellbinding ordeal was even a conspiracy forged between the sea and the gulls and the wind, to devour the sea shanty at last. That's how I see it anyway, and this really is a very ingenious poem. Have a great day! Ryan