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Debbie Guzzi

Date: 10/11/2012 8:06:00 AM

It's wonderful when a poet from another place on the globe brings that place with such skill to the house bound reader! [soup mail] Light & Love

Michael Smith

Date: 9/20/2012 4:08:00 PM

This is an absolutely well written intriguing piece. it was as if a musical was in my head as i read. If you don't mind reading my poem Where do the butterflies go.

craig cornish

Date: 9/13/2012 1:27:00 PM

So glad you coaxed me here, perhaps like the butterfly to the feather, I am glad you did---cause this is an awesome poem and the metaphor is so true. Why don't you host a contest in this form?

Suzette Crous Date: 9/13/2012 1:41:00 PM

Good idea, but I had to put my membership on hold for a while. Will be up and running again soon (had some family mishaps.... now resolved).

Leonora Galinta

Date: 9/9/2012 8:14:00 AM

You're such a great poet, Suzette. This is sooo wonderful!!! Thank you so much for sharing. Have a blessed and grace-filled day always!!!! luv, leonora

harry horsman

Date: 9/5/2012 8:43:00 AM

Suzette the philosopher, love , life, it is all here, you are indeed a wonderful poet.

Suzette Crous Date: 9/5/2012 9:34:00 AM

Philosopher, yes. "wonderful poet": I am still a work in progress... :-) Thank you for the complement.

jack horne

Date: 9/4/2012 2:37:00 PM

love this beauty, Su - and I love this form too. I'd heard white was the mourning colour for the Ancient Romans, but I've never heard of red for mourning before - symbolic for blood, perhaps? Thanks very much for sharing that : )

Suzette Crous Date: 9/5/2012 9:33:00 AM

I know that the Zulu's wear red at funerals - why that is so, I'm not sure.

Suzette Crous

Date: 9/4/2012 10:34:00 AM

Yes, it is a Quintella: a, a, b, b, a stanzas in 8 syllable lines.... Yes, it was the butterfly which tried to escape, although the obvious means of freedom was apparent: Not unlike our own selfimposed restrictions on life. Love and Peace, Su

Rhonda Johnson-Saunders

Date: 9/4/2012 6:50:00 AM

A wonderful write, Suzette! I enjoyed reading your quintella this morning. I found myself cheering, too!! Hugs, Rhonda

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 9/4/2012 5:26:00 AM

Suzette, I really enjoyed this one and this new form for me, quintella. I see someone here commenting if only the bird had escaped, but wasn't it a butterfly? soupmail.

Joseph May

Date: 9/3/2012 5:47:00 PM

if only that bird had escaped....lol...nicely penned Suzzette...hugs...Joseph

Sara Kendrick

Date: 9/3/2012 5:17:00 PM

Ahhh! Glad that you shared the butterflies escape..Great work..Enjoyed reading this eve..Thanks for stopping by..Sara

apoorva patrikar

Date: 9/3/2012 12:14:00 PM

wow... wonderful limericks

Suzette Crous Date: 9/3/2012 1:17:00 PM

It's written in the Quintella poetry form. Love, Su :-)