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Carol Eastman Date: 9/16/2012 9:49:00 AM Congratulations on your win. Seeing such things stays with you... for a life time. Not being able to help stings he soul.
Poet Destroyer A Date: 9/15/2012 11:00:00 PM Joann,, Congratulations in Debbie's " Let's Get Serious " awesome contest. ~ :-) always a pleasure in reading all winners when I get the chance. super xox's from~ PD
Andrea Dietrich Date: 9/10/2012 8:52:00 PM Hey, where have you been. I rarely see you these days but I am so glad to be seeing the winners list and to know yours is on it. This was a very serious and IMPORTANT poem. WEll crafted and deserving of its win. Congrats, sweet lady.
Carol Sunshine Brown Date: 9/10/2012 6:30:00 AM Congratulations on your super win in this contest "Let's Get Serious" Joann. Love, Carol
Debbie Guzzi Date: 9/9/2012 2:25:00 PM Excellent choice for the focus. The plight of unwanted children all over the world. Congrad's on your Serious verse winning. This is an important issue to draw attention too. Light & Love
Mandy Tams The Golden Girl Date: 9/9/2012 9:00:00 AM Congratulations on your big win Joann xx
Lee Ramage Date: 9/8/2012 8:44:00 PM Unfortunately that is the way of Mental Health facilities in the 1960s and 1970s. Catatonic schizaphrenia was difficult to address and still can be. Most Mental Health facilities do not even look like a hospital or "asylum" anymore. Well done. Lee
Joyce Johnson Date: 9/8/2012 5:53:00 PM Certainly is a serious matter and I think for the most part the way mind challenged people are treated has improved. You should never have been taken to see these conditions and they should not have been on display. Congratulations on being able to put it into words. Perhaps the memory will fade a little now. Congratulations on your win. Love, Joyce
craig cornish Date: 9/8/2012 12:34:00 PM This is truly serious, poignant and sad--so glad you shared these perfectly portrayed thoughts.
Carol Sunshine Brown Date: 9/7/2012 10:39:00 AM A belated thank you for your kind comments on my poetry Joann. Love, Carol
Sara Kendrick Date: 9/4/2012 4:47:00 PM Mental illness, mental disease, and mental retardation are sad illnesses of human beings..We would think that things would be better today but some of the same conditions still exsist in homes and institutional settings..You would think that we would learn..Thanks for stopping by my blog..Sara
Andrea Dietrich Date: 9/3/2012 10:21:00 AM This is what poetry is supposed to be, it does not have to be always pretty and wonderful thoughts. a poem like this is the kind I enjoy seeing because you paint reality and like with my taste in art, I prefer the realists to the surrealists!! The descriptions are very good, Joann!
nette onclaud Date: 9/2/2012 10:52:00 AM so well defined with your senses alive in every line, joann... an edgy piece; i can relate as one who had been in a place like :) wonderful!.. hugggs!
harry horsman Date: 9/2/2012 3:19:00 AM Joann this is a classic, a poem, so realistic, it hurts.
Robert Pettit Date: 8/31/2012 6:11:00 PM Not a pleasant poem to read, but you have described the reality of your surroundings reasonably well here.
Debbie Guzzi Date: 8/31/2012 4:29:00 PM Joann this is excellent work if the children have to live it we can certainly deal with reading it, no need to dilute the impact of the poem with the disclaimer..why not put it in the About the poem part. For this contest we WANT our VERY serious TOPICS to be felt aye? [what country was this? here?]Light & Love
Matthew Anish Date: 8/31/2012 2:08:00 PM You paint a dark picture. It is a part of life that many choose to ignore. You are bringing the darkness into light with your work here. Peace & Love Matthew Anish