Monday, January 20, 2003

You Can'T Have It All Comments

Rating: 4.3

But you can have the fig tree and its fat leaves like clown hands
gloved with green. You can have the touch of a single eleven-year-old finger
on your cheek, waking you at one a.m. to say the hamster is back.
You can have the purr of the cat and the soulful look
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Nika Mcguin 07 October 2016

This poem sums up how we should view life. It will never be everything we want it to be, but it can often be beautiful if we know where to look. I also loved the flow of this poem, its very soothing.

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Susan Williams 07 October 2016

This poem left me absolutely breathless! ! ! She ran the gamut of emotions from all quarters and ages of life and I want to read this again and again and again. It's not just a poem, it is Literature.

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Mizzy ........ 07 October 2016

A poem of great appreciation for life and great respect for the joys and sadness it brings. Congrats on poem of the day!

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Fauxcroft Wade 07 October 2016

Amazing pice of work.

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M Asim Nehal 07 October 2016

A man can learn what he likes but there are so many things that we cannot.....Nobody did that and nobody will ever be able to do that...A thought provoking poem.10++++

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Dipankar Sadhukhan 07 October 2016

A nice piece of poetry. I like it..

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Edward Kofi Louis 07 October 2016

With the muse of mankind on earth. Nice work.

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M Asim Nehal 07 October 2016

Very true, I join u in this.

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