Comments received on poems by nephilim56 ( Norman Dickson)
THE WEARY ANGEL
arqios said:
Caretakers also undergo wear and tear, suffering exhaustion and being burdened by time. Hope all is well your way, friend. 🙏🏻🕊️
September 19th, 2026 07:24
arqios said:
Caretakers also undergo wear and tear, suffering exhaustion and being burdened by time. Hope all is well your way, friend. 🙏🏻🕊️
September 19th, 2026 07:24
THE WEARY ANGEL
sorenbarrett said:
Norman in reading this my mind goes to the cemetery where stone and masonry angels stand guard. It is winter and snow falls but melts in metaphorical tears pooling about the feet. What place lonelier than a grave yard where hope has died. In the next stanza there is a call for help for the living. I do not think it was the intended meaning but in my mind the last stanza offers peace in death the taking of the living to eternal rest. So as I see it this is the answer. A fave my friend.
September 19th, 2026 04:19
sorenbarrett said:
Norman in reading this my mind goes to the cemetery where stone and masonry angels stand guard. It is winter and snow falls but melts in metaphorical tears pooling about the feet. What place lonelier than a grave yard where hope has died. In the next stanza there is a call for help for the living. I do not think it was the intended meaning but in my mind the last stanza offers peace in death the taking of the living to eternal rest. So as I see it this is the answer. A fave my friend.
September 19th, 2026 04:19
THE WEARY ANGEL
Lorenz said:
The hubbub of the crowd drowned out the angels\' call...
September 19th, 2026 04:12
Lorenz said:
The hubbub of the crowd drowned out the angels\' call...
September 19th, 2026 04:12
UNANSWERED LETTERS
Tristan Robert Lange said:
That old house feels like it has a whole ghost story behind it, Norman. Fantastic write, my friend. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
September 18th, 2026 09:47
Tristan Robert Lange said:
That old house feels like it has a whole ghost story behind it, Norman. Fantastic write, my friend. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
September 18th, 2026 09:47
UNANSWERED LETTERS
arqios said:
We used to correspond like it was a daily staple. Now things have changed. 🙏🏻🕊️
September 18th, 2026 08:52
arqios said:
We used to correspond like it was a daily staple. Now things have changed. 🙏🏻🕊️
September 18th, 2026 08:52
UNANSWERED LETTERS
sorenbarrett said:
The use of careful and subtle rhyme and near rhyme combines with a heart like beat to the meter and together with images weave into this poem a feel of deterioration and a type of last gasp. This feels haunted as of one searching for a lost and dead love where dust and rust covers all. It pulls one along through a cold and stark land of metaphor. Very nicely done Norman and a fave.
September 18th, 2026 03:51
sorenbarrett said:
The use of careful and subtle rhyme and near rhyme combines with a heart like beat to the meter and together with images weave into this poem a feel of deterioration and a type of last gasp. This feels haunted as of one searching for a lost and dead love where dust and rust covers all. It pulls one along through a cold and stark land of metaphor. Very nicely done Norman and a fave.
September 18th, 2026 03:51
ALCOHOLIC
GenXer Sharon 🙏🍀 said:
There’s much truth here in this write. Thank you for sharing this.
September 18th, 2026 03:10
GenXer Sharon 🙏🍀 said:
There’s much truth here in this write. Thank you for sharing this.
September 18th, 2026 03:10
UNANSWERED LETTERS
orchidee said:
Good write N.
You would have time to answer those letters but you been waiting so long at that bus stop. lol.
September 18th, 2026 02:38
orchidee said:
Good write N.
You would have time to answer those letters but you been waiting so long at that bus stop. lol.
September 18th, 2026 02:38
THE BOOKS I BORROW
Goldfinch60 said:
Sad words Norman in a world where there is enough in it to share with all but those in power will not release it.
Andy
September 18th, 2026 01:01
Goldfinch60 said:
Sad words Norman in a world where there is enough in it to share with all but those in power will not release it.
Andy
September 18th, 2026 01:01
ALCOHOLIC
NafisaSB said:
You have captured the essence of the typical drunkard. Wow 🤩
September 18th, 2026 00:53
NafisaSB said:
You have captured the essence of the typical drunkard. Wow 🤩
September 18th, 2026 00:53
THE BOOKS I BORROW
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Norman, I have always believed books let us enter lives the world would rather keep invisible. This took me among those forgotten faces and left me wondering how many stories disappear because nobody cares enough to listen. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
September 17th, 2026 10:23
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Norman, I have always believed books let us enter lives the world would rather keep invisible. This took me among those forgotten faces and left me wondering how many stories disappear because nobody cares enough to listen. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
September 17th, 2026 10:23
THE BOOKS I BORROW
Teddy.15 said:
Superb, and brings much reflection, true and clever makes me think about Sylvia Plath who lived in a loveless marriage with deep depression and Oscar Wilde who was gay and not accepted as such and so many more. 🌹
September 17th, 2026 07:32
Teddy.15 said:
Superb, and brings much reflection, true and clever makes me think about Sylvia Plath who lived in a loveless marriage with deep depression and Oscar Wilde who was gay and not accepted as such and so many more. 🌹
September 17th, 2026 07:32
THE BOOKS I BORROW
Lorenz said:
A cityscape straight out of a Dickens novel...
September 17th, 2026 06:18
Lorenz said:
A cityscape straight out of a Dickens novel...
September 17th, 2026 06:18
THE BOOKS I BORROW
sorenbarrett said:
There is an intriguing feeling woven into this poem with internal rhyme and near rhyme. It meanders and flows all the way to the end. A fave
September 17th, 2026 04:46
sorenbarrett said:
There is an intriguing feeling woven into this poem with internal rhyme and near rhyme. It meanders and flows all the way to the end. A fave
September 17th, 2026 04:46
THE BOOKS I BORROW
orchidee said:
A fine write N.
So you\'ve read all your own books and are borrowing other books to read, while waiting at the bus-stop. lol.
September 17th, 2026 02:57
orchidee said:
A fine write N.
So you\'ve read all your own books and are borrowing other books to read, while waiting at the bus-stop. lol.
September 17th, 2026 02:57
A PRICKLY PATH
Goldfinch60 said:
Those roses without the thorns will be seen along the road again Norman.
Andy
September 17th, 2026 00:36
Goldfinch60 said:
Those roses without the thorns will be seen along the road again Norman.
Andy
September 17th, 2026 00:36
A PRICKLY PATH
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Norman, what a haunting piece. Weather, sleeplessness, violence, and lingering intimacy converge into a portrait of love after trust has been shattered. The beauty remains inseparable from the pain it carries. Wonderfully done, my friend. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
September 16th, 2026 22:21
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Norman, what a haunting piece. Weather, sleeplessness, violence, and lingering intimacy converge into a portrait of love after trust has been shattered. The beauty remains inseparable from the pain it carries. Wonderfully done, my friend. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
September 16th, 2026 22:21
A PRICKLY PATH
orchidee said:
A fine write N. We fought our way through the woods, prickly bushes, etc, taking short-cut to that bus stop - all for nothing. No bus arrived! lol.
September 16th, 2026 08:47
orchidee said:
A fine write N. We fought our way through the woods, prickly bushes, etc, taking short-cut to that bus stop - all for nothing. No bus arrived! lol.
September 16th, 2026 08:47
A PRICKLY PATH
sorenbarrett said:
I felt this one Norman all that is good has a price and the beauty and fragrance of the rose bears thorns. I have torn myself on them for lack of care before. Nicely written my friend with a seductive meter and good rhyme a fave
September 16th, 2026 05:01
sorenbarrett said:
I felt this one Norman all that is good has a price and the beauty and fragrance of the rose bears thorns. I have torn myself on them for lack of care before. Nicely written my friend with a seductive meter and good rhyme a fave
September 16th, 2026 05:01
MIRROR MIRROR
Goldfinch60 said:
Beauty come from within the mind and heart Norman.
Andy
September 16th, 2026 01:16
Goldfinch60 said:
Beauty come from within the mind and heart Norman.
Andy
September 16th, 2026 01:16
MIRROR MIRROR
Paul Bell said:
Yes, the wine might mature with age, but sadly, the ones who worship you are gone, leaving the young who worship another.
It is nice to know we\'re all replaceable though.
September 15th, 2026 10:23
Paul Bell said:
Yes, the wine might mature with age, but sadly, the ones who worship you are gone, leaving the young who worship another.
It is nice to know we\'re all replaceable though.
September 15th, 2026 10:23
MIRROR MIRROR
orchidee said:
Good write N.
You thought you spotted a bus in that mirror - but no, a mirage! lol.
September 15th, 2026 09:13
orchidee said:
Good write N.
You thought you spotted a bus in that mirror - but no, a mirage! lol.
September 15th, 2026 09:13
MIRROR MIRROR
sorenbarrett said:
Makeup can not compete with youth and time is a cruel taskmaster. Nicely written Norman and a fave
September 15th, 2026 04:47
sorenbarrett said:
Makeup can not compete with youth and time is a cruel taskmaster. Nicely written Norman and a fave
September 15th, 2026 04:47
ALAS
Tristan Robert Lange said:
What a beautifully melancholy piece, Norman. The imagery is rich with everything the speaker notices, but the real sorrow lies in having no way to make another person see it too. This struck close to home, my friend. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
September 14th, 2026 11:14
Tristan Robert Lange said:
What a beautifully melancholy piece, Norman. The imagery is rich with everything the speaker notices, but the real sorrow lies in having no way to make another person see it too. This struck close to home, my friend. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
September 14th, 2026 11:14
ALAS
orchidee said:
Good write N. Summat else you miss - never seen it for years - we knows it! lol.
September 14th, 2026 09:18
orchidee said:
Good write N. Summat else you miss - never seen it for years - we knows it! lol.
September 14th, 2026 09:18
MY TIN ANGEL
2781 said:
And this is the Father\'s will which has sent me, that of all which he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
September 14th, 2026 05:43
2781 said:
And this is the Father\'s will which has sent me, that of all which he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
September 14th, 2026 05:43
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