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Playgrounds secrets

The mystery of pebbles on a beach

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Comment from Brenda Elizabeth Rose
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Very well done look a stone pebbles on a beach. I enjoyed your poem. The rhyme and rhythm worked well to tell the story. Thank you for sharing this poem with us and good luck in the contest. ~Brenda

 Comment Written 29-Dec-2019


reply by the author on 30-Dec-2019
    Brenda, Thank you for the time you spent review and comment on my poem.
Comment from Bill Schott
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This poem, Playground's Secrets, presented in cascading rhyming couplets, finds the observer pondering the history of the tiny specks we see on the beach. What former mountain lays before us now?

 Comment Written 29-Dec-2019


reply by the author on 29-Dec-2019
    Bill yes the ever on-going recycling is amazing!
Comment from Dorothy Farrell
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Hello JLR, I love your choice of art for the competition - an ever changing art which is at the mercy of the tides. Your couplets are very well written and I particularly like -

Bending down to grab a handful of pebbles, so smooth to my touch.
My mind reels in the knowledge that I hold centuries in my clutch.

Good luck in the contest - Happy New Year to you and yours - regards Dorothy x

 Comment Written 29-Dec-2019


reply by the author on 29-Dec-2019
    Dorothy, thank you for your kind review and well wishes.
Comment from TPAC
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I admire the smooth flow in this composition structuring, finding the items used as ingredients properly stirred forming this creation. A very touching read in my stated opinion.

 Comment Written 29-Dec-2019


reply by the author on 29-Dec-2019
    TPAC, I do thank you for the time your took to read and comment on my work. Happy, New Year to you and your loved ones.
Comment from Sandra Ludwick
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Thank you for sharing your thoughts through your poem. I really enjoyed reading it. You have addressed something I have wondered about for a very long time. Well done.

 Comment Written 29-Dec-2019


reply by the author on 29-Dec-2019
    Sandra, isn't nature and amazing encyclopedia of information, art, science and pure pleasure....
Comment from Sandra Stoner-Mitchell
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That was quite a thought-provoking poem, JLR, I'd never looked at pebbles that way before, but you're right, some have been around more centuries than we realise. I enjoyed reading your thoughts in this poem. Well done! :)) Sandra xxx

 Comment Written 29-Dec-2019


reply by the author on 29-Dec-2019
    Sandra, thank you very much!
Comment from Gloria ....
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What a neat idea for a contest. Cammycards is one of my favourites from FanArtReview.

Excellent rhyming couplets and I much enjoy your juxtaposing the small picture to the big picture.

Best of luck to you in the voting booth, J. :))

Gloria


 Comment Written 29-Dec-2019


reply by the author on 29-Dec-2019
    Gloria, thank you very much!
Comment from Alchera
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Eight beautifully rhymed simply written couplets which enclosed, in a pensive glance, a flashback of human short historical existential miserable conditions on Mother Earth through the comparison of "a grabbed handful of pebbles" and its history. Your pebbles took me to Matthew Arnold's pebbles in his poem Dover Beach that he wrote during his honeymoon.Great Work. Blessings Tony

 Comment Written 29-Dec-2019


reply by the author on 29-Dec-2019
    Tony, thank you very much! I am truly humbled by your words and six-star review.
reply by Alchera on 29-Dec-2019
    You are Always welcomed. Tony if
Comment from Pearl Edwards
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I love this one JLR and your thoughts as you wander the beach, stopping to pick up pebbles that may or may not be there when the tide turns once more.
Bending down to grab a handful of pebbles, so smooth to my touch.
My mind reels in the knowledge that I hold centuries in my clutch.
love those lines, great write.
cheers
valda

 Comment Written 29-Dec-2019


reply by the author on 29-Dec-2019
    Valda, thank you very much! I am truly humbled by your words and six-star review.
Comment from lyenochka
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Beautiful and artistic reflection on these pebbles by the shore! My favorite line was:
"My mind reels in the knowledge that I hold centuries in my clutch."
"Walking near waters edge I watch the eddy fight" (water's)
I think you'll do well in the contest!!

 Comment Written 29-Dec-2019


reply by the author on 29-Dec-2019
    thank you very much!