Comment from C. Gale Burnett

Excellent

You are too much! You remind me of my husband. As always, I love your work, love your expanded vocabulary and wish I had half your humor. Great poem, great illustration!

 Comment Written 10-Nov-2018

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reply by the author on 11-Nov-2018

Thank you so much for the wonderful comments. You really are too kind (but much appreciated). Craig

Comment from Gloria ....

Excellent

What a cute little egghead sitting on his wall. Walls are cool though, but I've said time and again it's much better to build statues if one wants to be memorialized. Walls are however good for growing tomatoes. I agree it is the walls within the keep evil firmly in place.

Excellent poem and I like the word too friend, Craig.

Gloria

 Comment Written 09-Nov-2018

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reply by the author on 10-Nov-2018

Thanks so much, Gloria. Speaking of growing tomatoes, time is fast going by, soon it will be too late for all the planting we promised ourselves to get around to this season. Most grateful for the lovely comments, Craig

Comment from lyenochka

Excellent

Lol. I never did understand that odd nursery rhyme. You use it well to allude to our political situation and you're right. The new way to get in the country is to fly to Canada (much cheaper than hiring a coyote) and entering from the north.

 Comment Written 09-Nov-2018

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reply by the author on 10-Nov-2018

Thanks so much, Helen. It seems a project doomed to fail. Haven't heard so much about it lately, has it more or less been abandoned, or just faded into the background? Cheers, Craig

Comment from Carolyn Reaves

Excellent

Cute and clever Humpty Dumpty. Your writing describes well what a person should do to make themselves whole after they have fallen and experienced a brokenness that only God can fix.

 Comment Written 09-Nov-2018

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reply by the author on 10-Nov-2018

Thanks for the kind review, most grateful. Craig

Comment from Jannypan (Jan)

Excellent

You make a valid point about walls, Craig. What do walls keep in or keep out. Your presentation expresses your thoughts well. Good job on the rhymes, the flow, the picture, and most of all the message. This is a great use of the form for your word. Thanks for sharing. Jan

 Comment Written 09-Nov-2018

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reply by the author on 10-Nov-2018

Thanks so much for the continued supportive comments, Jan. They are very much appreciated. Craig

Comment from zanya

Excellent

A wonderful read and so pertinent in these days of projected wall building !! what indeed did walls ever really achieve - some timely reminders included here 'Berlin's parietine is long forgot '- superb line

 Comment Written 09-Nov-2018

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reply by the author on 10-Nov-2018

Thanks very much for the great comments :) Cheers, Craig

Comment from Mustang Patty

Excellent

Hi, Craig,

Walls don't work and they never have. The folly of Dumpster's plan is that a wall has existed in many places along the border. It didn't matter. Posting troops is a folly, too, unless he plans to post them every five feet.

And all of the promises to Americans that we wouldn't have to pay for his dream of keeping everyone out have been broken.

Humpty Dumpster just continues to tear America down,

~MP~

 Comment Written 09-Nov-2018

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reply by the author on 09-Nov-2018

Amen to all of the above, Patty. Thanks for the kind assessment. Have a great weekend. Craig

Comment from Pam (respa)

Excellent

-Good image for your word of the day, Craig.
-I like your poem with good
rhyme, description, and use of the word.
-I like the ideas in verse one, as
we try to hide behind walls.
-The example of "Berlin's parietine"
is very good.
-Thanks for sharing.

 Comment Written 09-Nov-2018

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reply by the author on 09-Nov-2018

Thanks very much for the thoughtful analysis and kind words, Pam. Most grateful for both, have a good weekend! Craig

reply by Pam (respa) on 09-Nov-2018

You are very welcome, Craig. You have a good weekend, too.

Comment from Debbie Pope

Excellent

I am beginning to see how your mind works-- just a little. You see parietine, and you immediately think Humpty Dumpty, Jericho and Berlin. I think that I would have as well. The genius creativity comes in putting those disjunct concepts into a poem. You are so good at that.
This was a remarkable, fun poem.

 Comment Written 09-Nov-2018

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reply by the author on 09-Nov-2018

Damn, Debbie, you've got me sussed now. It's true, I see a word, and my mind dredges up random images without much rhyme or reason. Strangely, it's not often all that hard to tie seemingly unrelated things together :)

Thanks for the lovely comments, I really do appreciate them. Have a wonderful weekend -- Craig.

reply by Debbie Pope on 09-Nov-2018

I don't think you realize, nobody else could put those thoughts together. It's fun to watch you do it.