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Jazz's avatar

Beautiful, I can tell you’re good at making memories paint a picture in other poets minds

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Michelle A. McKenzie's avatar

I love this!

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G. K. Allum's avatar

Thank you

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samuel forbes's avatar

Outstanding! This stanza especially, for me:

“Down we wandered

through green ascensions,

the city’s forgotten veins—pulsated.

A gentrified railway—truncated.”

I love the contrast after the em-dashes: the first pulsates, the second is truncated. The ancient thing is alive, the modern thing is sterile, dead. Just stellar.

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G. K. Allum's avatar

Thanks, always appreciate you taking the time to reply with notes like this. Makes my day.

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Prince the VIIth's avatar

Very nice, I admire your poetry kept simple but lots inside.

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G. K. Allum's avatar

I appreciate that sentiment. Thank you

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Sincerely Searching's avatar

This is beautiful - it gave me goosebumps🦋

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G. K. Allum's avatar

I am moved that it moved you. I appreciate you.

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S y l v i A 🌞 K a l i n A's avatar

Mesmerizing sorrow spreading through my fibers. So many beautifully etched words and lines, too many to mention. You held my heart in your hands and squeezed it with your words.

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G. K. Allum's avatar

My heart is full!

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Ashley Meyers's avatar

You've captured several stories that leave me imagining the rest in my mind. I really clung to this bit, "living his life with open and closed doors" so much there in one line...

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G. K. Allum's avatar

I'm particularly enamored with this poem, I don't know if it's good per see, and not so much that I finished it, more than I had to really work hard over months for it to end.

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Devo/Murphy Carpenter's avatar

Beautiful

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small victories's avatar

This is masterful!

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