frogs, toads, and nary a prince among them... it’s not the warts so much, it’s the bruises and black eyes and everything else.... why is it that our mommas, our sisters and daughters, going back many millennia, have such a hard time finding an equal love???? Hopefully one day us men will discover how to be human and humane... tell momma to be careful around that pond... they tell us it’s insanity to think doing the same thing over and over hoping for a different result, but I think it might also be the definition of DENSE....
Love your poem Ana for the formatting yes, but for the power it packs
Posted 3 Years Ago
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3 Years Ago
I think the momma here means well but is a bit nuts. :)
Thanks for the great comment!!
I love the different fonts. I love the entire poem, but especially the last long section where your rhyme & rhythm beat a drum kinda like them throaty frogs/toads do! I just read a toad poem by Dave Brown & he's all worked up about male toads riding the backs of the female ones, so you two poets must be on the same croaky wavelength! Both are fun poems & make me want to pen a frog ditty soon! (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie
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3 Years Ago
So thrilled you liked this one! Thanks for reaching in to find it. And would love to read your fro.. read moreSo thrilled you liked this one! Thanks for reaching in to find it. And would love to read your frog ditty too!
I'll be looking for it!
Another really decent bit of imaginative writing
I was expecting the prince thingy but!!
This relates to my wife who goes out each evening in an effort to save her hostas and collects an ever-abundant number of slugs
frogs, toads, and nary a prince among them... it’s not the warts so much, it’s the bruises and black eyes and everything else.... why is it that our mommas, our sisters and daughters, going back many millennia, have such a hard time finding an equal love???? Hopefully one day us men will discover how to be human and humane... tell momma to be careful around that pond... they tell us it’s insanity to think doing the same thing over and over hoping for a different result, but I think it might also be the definition of DENSE....
Love your poem Ana for the formatting yes, but for the power it packs
Posted 3 Years Ago
1 of 1 people found this review constructive.
3 Years Ago
I think the momma here means well but is a bit nuts. :)
Thanks for the great comment!!
This is too funny, what a delightful read! Ha @ dense, what every mom is silently thinking about her thick skulled kids. :)
Posted 7 Years Ago
7 Years Ago
Thanks so much Paloma. :)
Yes, surely every mom thinks that at some point.
And to b.. read moreThanks so much Paloma. :)
Yes, surely every mom thinks that at some point.
And to be fair, mother knows best. :)
I've been smelling Thomas Stearns Eliot on some of your poems lately.
You must have good taste in poetry or something like that.
I bet you'd like Arthur Rimbaud just as much.
Are you certain that you aren't able to speak, or at least read, French?
Posted 7 Years Ago
7 Years Ago
I can speak a little and read a lot of french. I just don't know "bad" words. I don't know arthur.. read moreI can speak a little and read a lot of french. I just don't know "bad" words. I don't know arthur rimbaud ' s poetry. If it's silly I'll probably like it. I'll take the tseliot comment as a compliment?
7 Years Ago
I may have mentioned him to be my favorite at one time or another... yeah, you could say the compari.. read moreI may have mentioned him to be my favorite at one time or another... yeah, you could say the comparison was a compliment. Rimbaud is not silly but he is very, very surreal. One of the first to do it well actually. I can speak and read English pretty well.... I google translate everything mon cher.
7 Years Ago
insert "else" after 'everything' and before "my in French"
Really like this take on "you might have to kiss a few frogs before you find your Prince" Makes me wanna try and write a wee humorous or myself. Sweet.
Posted 7 Years Ago
7 Years Ago
Gee, you do silly humour very well so I would say YES. Write something new! :)
Thank you ve.. read moreGee, you do silly humour very well so I would say YES. Write something new! :)
Thank you very much for popping in on me.
No problem with the type. I like the story here. Very classic country feel.
Posted 7 Years Ago
7 Years Ago
Thanks so much Mitch. Words of wisdom I'll be sharing with my own daughter one day but not for sever.. read moreThanks so much Mitch. Words of wisdom I'll be sharing with my own daughter one day but not for several years still. And maybe not in this form! Thanks again!