love it

love the clash of scarlet and yellow / cardinals and forsythia

brilliant finish, silent
a delight to the senses


Stella

This is absolutely wonderful.  I echo Stella: a delight to the senses.  I will be reading this again and again, and  I'm looking forward to exploring more of your work.

Silent - Great shape, humor, irony, beauty, and depth, like the best fruit.
- Tom

have to agree with everyone else - a real treat 8)

Real A1 this, SL, must be a pick.

milner

You bloom silently
In silent winter
With a silent smile.

dear Richard

my thankyuuus for your kind words
and your creating the time to sit with my poetry.


i happen to be in Paris right now and the weather is extremely mild
and almost no rain...... tonight is the opening of my wife Nermin's exhibition
at the Carousel de Louvre

www.nerminkura.net

lots of poetic expressions all around

if any one is near by and would like to visit the show
let me know and i will arrange for free tickets.


miles of smiles
silent lotus

Silent, putting this up to front page for the week. (Everyone out there, see what even the briefest mention of buying me one Belgian chocolate gets you?) LOL. Seriously, I loved this poem at first read and every time I go back, the pool gets deeper and the bottom clearer and further away. Tom

i too find this pool, and the one caring for it, striking. 

well done, and congratulations.

tiko

Dynamite!
Bingo!
Wowie Zowie!
The best one I've seen of yours yet!

Rick

Congratulations, SL, and bon voyage.

milner

Excellent feature for the front page. Makes calm an insufficient word.

larry

silent i am in love with that final stanza.  as always, your delicate fusion of wit and scenery serve this poem well.  an deserved front page pick.  on reread, that "regalia" very prominent in placing those cardinals in the piece, a piercing red.  very much enjoyed. -lawrence

Lovely choice...congratulations Silent Lotus

magic

Congratulations SL.

SL--

The vacuum sucks
the beauty up to
being there

                  Ken

Dear SL,  what a joy to see this shining at me as I logged in.

It goes wonderfully well with the deep white outside.

Smiles to you my friend, k

~~~

A few weeks after the poem Forbearance
was featured here on the front page of Poetry Circle
it was published in print






Tiferet Issue 13

ISSN 1547-2906 ©2010

http://www.tiferetjournal.com/

This poem has now been also published in the Street Sights 2011 calendar
for the month of July

http://www.streetsights.org/

Our Mission
Street Sights serves as a forum for advocates, homeless and formerly homeless people, students, state officials,
and the general public to share accurate and honest information about issues relating to homelessness.

Our goal is to shed light on a subject not often addressed and, to some degree, ignored.
We aim to provoke discussion and give a voice to voiceless people in our community.
We provide a space free of judgment in which we recognize the dignity and
worth of each person and in doing so empower the group as a whole.


Ocean State Poets....
supports and celebrates the beautiful people who keep these important issues
of the rhode island community at the forefront of our awareness


~

published, and rightly so.
it's a gem.