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Review by drifter
Rated: E | (4.5)
It was a fun read Amay. It read like something that might have happened on the TV series, the Walton's. It is very folksy and down to earth. We are entertained by the mystery of the rocking horse coming alive in the pattern of a horse that has not yet come home. Tx for sharing
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Review of Our Souls Know  
Review by drifter
Rated: E | (4.0)
The focus is on remembering, recollecting in a value seeking enterprise. It is the that we find soul and offer to others hope for tomorrow. Thanks for sharing Snow. Underneath the invisible is possibility of growing old together. The best is yet to come
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Review of Five Simple Steps  
Review by drifter
Rated: E | (4.0)
A comical look at what can make a persons life absurd. It is not enough to get rid of or give away clothes I don't need, I let go of all of them, only to discover because stores are closed I dive in after clothes I gave. The more absurd point is I get the clothes out past curfew and risk arrest. Tx for sharing.
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Review of WITH YOU  
Review by drifter
In affiliation with Sisco's Good Deed Group  
Rated: E | (3.5)
Wow turbo, you offer up quite the poetic couplet about what relationship with the beloved looks like. I enjoy contemplating the importance of the other. I find myself wondering about who you are in the relationship. It is a poem about meeting needs. I just hope over time it works out or else.... The alternative looks rather bleak. Thanks for sharing what makes relationship work for you.
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Review of Parents  
Review by drifter
In affiliation with Sisco's Good Deed Group  
Rated: E | (4.0)
Thanks Shawn, my favorite words you offer up Self-sacrificing with determination to protect and help at all costs, no matter the suffering. That is love as I know it in essence. As I recall my own parents who have died and my own quest to parent my own children. Thanks for the reminder. Too often I struggle as I try to help my wife who has dementia issues."As if they were strangers I could trust. It is a reminder everything happens for a reason. Tx for sharing your memory and heart.
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Review by drifter
In affiliation with Open Door To Grace ♥  
Rated: E | (4.0)
A fascinating look at how one moves from from having a crown to embodying the crown in such a way that the missing jewels find there way into the crown.

I am not sure how much of it is a journey about learning what it means to be God's child and how much it speaks of knowing God in a father role. Tx for sharing
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Review of She Lives  
Review by drifter
In affiliation with Open Door To Grace ♥  
Rated: E | (4.5)
Hello Della, I enjoy very much how you flesh out this tale. I am given a way to look at a woman who is looking for someone to show what it meant to be truly loved.
Jesus saw right through her to what mattered within. She moves from a place of feeling worthless to being hopeful of redemption in sharing a source of water never drying up and therefore she shares as on knowing love for the first time. Tx for sharing.
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Review by drifter
In affiliation with Sisco's Good Deed Group  
Rated: E | (3.5)
It is a wild ride Ironworker. You offer up an interesting vision of how incarnation happens for the main character Madam Ankine. "As she lay facing up at her last glimpse of that day. She felt herself move from her body prone broken bloody and dead quickly into another. I found myself re-entering the world as a child as it was leaving the womb. As a child, I could only vaguely recall memories of events of places. But over time, the memories became stronger and clearer."
It is fun to see how the nephew becomes a part of keeping the black book alive and then there is speculation as to what it means for him to be part of the story.
Early on the word gait is written as gate. Tx for sharing
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Review by drifter
In affiliation with Sisco's Good Deed Group  
Rated: E | (3.0)
Fun read from a person who knows the culture of India very well. It is very clear you know what are talking about. I would need to know more about marriage, politics and business from the perspective of someone who lives in India and can see how the United States is as much the problem as the solution. Early on the word clever was spelt cleaver.
I am not sure of what this paragraph refers to for instance:
Who sees the logic? With two hundred lives at stake and a call for negotiation on one hand; and with almost similar number dead and no call for negotiation, on other; Can the things be treated as same? It is for USA,now, to tell us that we as a nation are weak in dealing with the terrorists. Are we destined to be mislead by these political Heroes (Zeroes
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Review by drifter
In affiliation with Open Door To Grace ♥  
Rated: E | (4.5)
It was a joy to read this I. The age of Covid when every one is wearing a mask. It keeps us honest to know that there is more to a person than what is seen and heard. There is the cry to know the soul of what you point to. There is a person so unique. it was...uncontrolled. His graying head cocked upward in his mirth and his teeth were more yellowed than Calibri was accustomed to. He even snorted once. It was a long laugh, probably not considered polite. There was something about that laugh, though, that man... A beauty that could not be found in any of the other faces. Write on. Tx for sharing.
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Review by drifter
In affiliation with Sisco's Good Deed Group  
Rated: E | (4.0)
Geoff, I liked this foraging out into my favorite time of year with many messages to greet me in the winter wonderland. The prints in the snow tell their own story over and above what we might read. My favorite lines build to the end:
The hieroglyphics of the hare.
The humorous happy hare.
The lop-sided hieroglyphical hare.
Her story makes me smile.
She has such big feet.
Yawn.
About to dream.
Must hurry.
To read the moose's long cuneiform.
Long strides.
I and the calf hurry.
The blizzard turns the page.
I enjoy being on this pilgrimage. Thanks
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Review of In Mongolia  
Review by drifter
In affiliation with Sisco's Good Deed Group  
Rated: E | (4.0)
Hello Karen, a curious piece with a picture and prompt to grace it. It begins with the word Mongolia. I am transported to a place that has camels that laugh along with myself.
The spacings of the poem remind one of wide open spaces that can not contain a smile. It is contagious.
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Review of The Change  
Review by drifter
In affiliation with Sisco's Good Deed Group  
Rated: E | (4.5)
Hello Ironworker, a reminder that all creatures have a voice. I can recall my own days of hunting deer with my grandfather. By the end of the tale we are looking at ourselves in the mirror of a deer's eyes. Progress brings with it a price of disregard for something that has value.
Looking back: the reality is that change takes place and like it or not in the end someone or something will pay the price. Thanks
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Review by drifter
In affiliation with Sisco's Good Deed Group  
Rated: E | (4.0)
A real curious tale Katie, about a boy finding ways to become a man, a hero.

It took a couple reads to better understand the myth of the suck monster and the mermaid Eve. The bottom line is that things are not always as they seem.
There is the story of grandma and grandfather. I remember it well. I was pretty much raised by my grandparents. The lesson seems to say that even the suck monster is not the problem as much as it is taming the monster within. Thanks for sharing.
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Review by drifter
In affiliation with Open Door To Grace ♥  
Rated: E | (4.5)
Wow Katie, talk about crashing into reality. The centerpiece is the metaphor of the tree that knew what it was like to be burnt and broken. These words caught me:

Here I stand, across from a tree that gave me so much joy. Like me, it is fractured and broken. Its' leaves are gone and apples are visions of the past. I do remember that sensational taste and smell that was like no other apple. Each bite promised hope.
And then as the words of "wanting divorce" come out, a husband is killed and the woman herself wondering what it is all about surviving a crash, that hides underneath the memory of past bliss. Words do have power. Watch out what you pray for. Thanks
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Review by drifter
In affiliation with Open Door To Grace ♥  
Rated: E | (5.0)
I love the way your story flows and gifts me with a picture that I can celebrate and embrace. There is a thread of melancholy in being loved in a rock and roll fantasy. These words redeem the experience:

These are better days; the highs aren't peaks and the lows I take with grace. I bring sparkling images out of dreams, into the sunlight and claim them for myself.
And in the course of the melody is a three year old girl, who serves as a reminder of the importance of musical magic and little girl dreams. Life has ups and downs and yet it's worth the ride.
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Review by drifter
In affiliation with Open Door To Grace ♥  
Rated: E | (4.5)
Hello Katie, a tear jerker at so many levels. As I read I feel a sense of being torn and jerked out of a reality that seemed to be the perfect place for me. I enjoy the way you make the shift.
What was the chance?
The two of us together.
Destiny, fate, kiss of the stars,
wishes can come true,
Then the cruel reality as thunder and lightening out of the blue enlightening me. The ending is perfect. There goes that "perfect" person walking on water away, a ghost. What happened. Thanks for sharing
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Review by drifter
In affiliation with Sisco's Good Deed Group  
Rated: E | (4.0)
An enjoyable exercise in determining the essence of what makes God believable. I remember the question in seminary and as I sought to understand God before I called myself a Christian. It seems like much of your own thoughts are focused ontologically, "there needs to be a cause". My life has taught me faith is the only thing for sure. If someone does not believe in God there is not much to convince them otherwise, because that is the truth they are tethered to. I would much rather believe in a God of love who dare to die for us rather mechanistic, naturalist gibberish. You do well to unpack the issue logically even to the point of admitting the unpredictability of atom. I am discovering for myself my testimony in relationship to God is the only thing that makes sense. Thanks!
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Review by drifter
In affiliation with Sisco's Good Deed Group  
Rated: E | (4.0)
Hello Tim, nice rhythmic sentiment. It speaks about the importance of rewakening romance so that we do not lose what put us together in the first place. A love Reborn speaks to the heart of your poem, not clear about uplifting gain. My favorite lines:Buttercup, we’re branching out -
Sunrise - new refrains -
Everybody’s working doubt...
Sentimental drains.
Love is obviously more than the sentimental. I also like the liberating thrust, frisky clamor.
Not sure about leaky bubbles.
Thanks for sharing.
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Review by drifter
In affiliation with Open Door To Grace ♥  
Rated: E | (5.0)
Thanks for the measure of hope you offer up in the story you share. Life can get painful for person's like Angela and yet that does not mean God does not have a plan. I enjoy the way the story develops and flows. I recalled my own divorce and the sense of abandonment. And then along comes someone like Carl who helps to make sense out of what seemed craziness and chaos. I am reminded by your story that marriage and relationships are hard work, labor and yet there is in the midst of water breaking a baptism to a new life. It is as much a story about survival and recovery of a dream that had seemed a nightmare. I like that she still has some connection with the baby's father. It makes me hopeful. My own first marriage lasted nineteen years, unfortunately it left us disillusioned with three kids looking on. God bless. I am thankful for your writing gift.
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Review of A Leap of Faith  
Review by drifter
In affiliation with Sisco's Good Deed Group  
Rated: E | (5.0)
Hello RedtoWrite, it was well worth the read from start to finish. In particular I like how you use allusions to perk my interest going forward. There is the allusion in relation to what she reads: the awakenings by Oliver Sacks. It is fun to see how you bring her back to life. She is not good with sports and yet finds a gift in reading and research, ultimately being used as a undercover person, a place where she could make love and become pregnant with Grayson. It might be said she is wise beyond her years.

We then see the highlight of the tale as she takes the ashes to a high place where she has known fear and let's go of Tony's ashes. It is a very spiritual moment. Your characters come across to me as very believable. I recall my own hurt at being picked last in sports. God has a plan and as the title reveals it takes a leap of faith to uncover the hero each of us can become. I did wonder about her confrontation with Jesse. How does she survive? Thank you very much for sharing.
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Review by drifter
In affiliation with Sisco's Good Deed Group  
Rated: E | (4.0)
It was an interesting read Alextrax. The transformation from a human being to blob if jelly is disconcerting. I can understand the irritation of dealing with Melanie, too particular to care about person's and we see clearly that consequence. I would like to know more about back story about what makes Carole obsess about eating food. I have worked with persons with feeding disorders. Where does Carole begin and where and what is this blob that creates the occasion for eating like no tomorrow. Where will all this lead. Thank you for answering my questions. I enjoyed the dialogue in the beginning of the story as one power overcoming. Where will it go from there. Where is Melanie as the story continues. Tx for sharing
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Review of The Sirens.  
Review by drifter
In affiliation with Sisco's Good Deed Group  
Rated: E | (5.0)
Hello inkwell, love your literary allusion that reminds me of the Odyssey by Homer. I can still picture the need of being tied up to resist screams that bring a ship to be destroyed.
I like the element of fatal attraction that you offer up. I am dragged down to see a hag, withered monsters with scars and claws.
I see this as a good poem to share with others the destructive nature of passion that isolates us and call us to destruction. Your poem offers
Its all an act,
to draw you in.
to catch a sailor,
so they can win.

Beauty and grace,
they never frown.
For their ambition,
is to make you drown
The alternative is to realize the healing of community, relationships that not only build up myself, but others. Tx
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Review by drifter
In affiliation with Open Door To Grace ♥  
Rated: E | (4.5)
I love your title. It gives me something to look forward to and pray about. I want the sweet serenity that you offer up.
The word health comes across as clinically sterile. I like words that speak of God's "shalom" which is what you are offering up to your reader. It is a sense of healing and wholeness(peace), that can only come from God. My favorite lines of your poem:And in His presence
Lies the awesome focus -
A simple prescription,
His eternal advisements
So rewarding and pure.
It is indeed in God's presence we find eternal reward. Thanks for sharing
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Review by drifter
In affiliation with Open Door To Grace ♥  
Rated: E | (5.0)
Thanks for your passions Tim. I enjoy that you are able to use poetry to share what is most important to you. Your last paragraph speaks the loudest. It calls for God to set people free. It may not be too late. I am reminded of God speaking in Exodus. He hears and knows the cry of people who are suffering.
I pray that God can use you poem to set free people who can make a difference for these children. Thanks for writing!! The poem is excellent. I wonder about the title. The power: a deafening groan.
Tx
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