(1) Echoes Poem by Sandra Fowler

(1) Echoes

Rating: 3.2


I was picking flowers and you were praising smoke.
The echoes of that last time linger on.
Birds pieced from the gray quilt of the dusk
Sang mighty wholeness that is ever lost.

I held your face like summer in my hands.
The warmth was various, a rare suncut.
Wind played your tune through simple blades of grass.
You never heard it, but I hear it still.

Muse India

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Nimal Dunuhinga 25 June 2006

The whispering of grass is very painful and sharper than it's edges. The songs of flowers and praising smoke echoes forever. The fragrance of your rare & rich vocabulary is everlasting............!

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Melvina Germain 18 December 2006

There's nothing more to say, except this is another one of your materpieces. Thankyou for the beauty.---Melvina

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Lisa Wilkinson 12 April 2007

My favourite lines Sandra, 'Wind played your tune through simple blades of grass. You never heard it, but I hear it still'. Dont we just love to get carried away by the drift of the wind. Bravo.Lisa

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Ben Gieske 19 June 2007

You paint such large pictures with very few words and weave them into a mosaic magnificently. Magnifico!

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Muhammad Hesham 08 September 2007

The uniqueness of this poem lies in its ability to transcend the very feelings of grief and loss that constitute its raison d’être. In spite of the birds’ song of the “mighty wholeness that is ever lost”, the tune of the lost beloved is incessantly played by the wind “through simple blades of grass”. The continuity of the tune, through the echoes, endows the lost one with a new life, emphasizing the fact that such loss, though painful, can never be ultimate.

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Dr Dillip K Swain 24 October 2022

Your poetry sparkles in all dimensions! Great expression Sandra dear. Appreciated this wonderful poem.

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Iris Blue 22 December 2012

A wonderful blend of nature and nostalgia echo throughout taking the reader on a journey through a sequence of visuals where memories are recalled with such clarity. I particularly like the line 'birds pieced from the grey quilt of the dusk'...one to savour and re read.

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premji premji 03 March 2010

You never heard it, but I hear it still.............. i never forget it, but i hear it for ever.................

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Nivedita Bagchi SPC UK 14 January 2010

Wonderful …’… I held your face like summer in my hands….’ It’s you held warmth of bosom…well poemed… 10+ Ms. Nivedita UK

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premji premji 24 April 2009

usually sounds echoes... but visuals echoes unusually.....like minded people can listen to your heart...so poetic and deep love...........

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Sandra Fowler

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W. Columbia, WV, USA
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