Comments received on poems by Thomas W Case
Rest, My Ass
8Blackwidow8 said:
We lift boxes and couches.
We lift worries.
We lift the ghosts
and the grief
that never learned how to leave
I really enjoyed this poem. Above are the lines that I relate to the most.
July 21st, 2026 10:12
8Blackwidow8 said:
We lift boxes and couches.
We lift worries.
We lift the ghosts
and the grief
that never learned how to leave
I really enjoyed this poem. Above are the lines that I relate to the most.
July 21st, 2026 10:12
Rest, My Ass
Paul Bell said:
Yes, you sit down to long, plants grow around you.
Just over that hill is a journey in the making, you\'ve got to go.
Been laid up a few times, drove me nuts.
July 21st, 2026 09:40
Paul Bell said:
Yes, you sit down to long, plants grow around you.
Just over that hill is a journey in the making, you\'ve got to go.
Been laid up a few times, drove me nuts.
July 21st, 2026 09:40
Rest, My Ass
sorenbarrett said:
A lovely write about the battles of life. I love the scars as keeping track, hash marks on the side of the plane for those shot down. Well written my friend I have been there too with many a scar to mark past battles
July 21st, 2026 08:10
sorenbarrett said:
A lovely write about the battles of life. I love the scars as keeping track, hash marks on the side of the plane for those shot down. Well written my friend I have been there too with many a scar to mark past battles
July 21st, 2026 08:10
Flutter Away
NafisaSB said:
Wonderful commentary on how life ends in different ways - and how we have to let go to survive the painful memories
July 21st, 2026 06:42
NafisaSB said:
Wonderful commentary on how life ends in different ways - and how we have to let go to survive the painful memories
July 21st, 2026 06:42
Flutter Away
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Thomas, this hit me incredibly hard. Grief does not merely take someone we love...sometimes it takes the person we were before losing them. Absolutely devastating work, my friend. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
July 20th, 2026 08:08
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Thomas, this hit me incredibly hard. Grief does not merely take someone we love...sometimes it takes the person we were before losing them. Absolutely devastating work, my friend. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
July 20th, 2026 08:08
Flutter Away
Kevin Hulme said:
A fine write as per usual. And very Philosophical. I suppose we are all Moths beating against the light for our own Interests.
July 19th, 2026 19:18
Kevin Hulme said:
A fine write as per usual. And very Philosophical. I suppose we are all Moths beating against the light for our own Interests.
July 19th, 2026 19:18
Flutter Away
Doggerel Dave said:
My attention stays with the moth, \" Still believing there has to be something on the other side\".
Thanks for that, Thomas.
July 19th, 2026 15:59
Doggerel Dave said:
My attention stays with the moth, \" Still believing there has to be something on the other side\".
Thanks for that, Thomas.
July 19th, 2026 15:59
Flutter Away
arqios said:
We are likened unto a moth against light and glass until we have learnt the difference between holding on and letting go. 🙏🕊️
July 19th, 2026 15:44
arqios said:
We are likened unto a moth against light and glass until we have learnt the difference between holding on and letting go. 🙏🕊️
July 19th, 2026 15:44
Flutter Away
Teddy.15 said:
I was twenty-one,
standing beside my little brother
in a hospital room on Mercy Street.
Too young to understand
how fast a person
can become
a fractured memory.
So very beautifully composed even just the memory and being so young at that time. 🌹
July 19th, 2026 07:46
Teddy.15 said:
I was twenty-one,
standing beside my little brother
in a hospital room on Mercy Street.
Too young to understand
how fast a person
can become
a fractured memory.
So very beautifully composed even just the memory and being so young at that time. 🌹
July 19th, 2026 07:46
Flutter Away
sorenbarrett said:
Thomas this is a lovely write real life and death what it means and how that is called growing up. The metaphor with the moth is wonderful and fits so well. Something so common that everyone has seen now another aspect so common that everyone must go through. It is gritty and smells of life and death with its perfume and stench it is a grandmother, a brother and ourselves. How much more down to earth can it get. Hats off my friend
July 19th, 2026 07:20
sorenbarrett said:
Thomas this is a lovely write real life and death what it means and how that is called growing up. The metaphor with the moth is wonderful and fits so well. Something so common that everyone has seen now another aspect so common that everyone must go through. It is gritty and smells of life and death with its perfume and stench it is a grandmother, a brother and ourselves. How much more down to earth can it get. Hats off my friend
July 19th, 2026 07:20
The Places we Carry
cellinic said:
A deep, sincere write with a bit contemplative overtones. Best wishes,
July 16th, 2026 06:14
cellinic said:
A deep, sincere write with a bit contemplative overtones. Best wishes,
July 16th, 2026 06:14
The Places we Carry
Tristan Robert Lange said:
My friend, \"Tom Sawyer is probably still waiting in a box somewhere down in the basement\" is the image that stayed with me. It\'s amazing how one forgotten box can carry an entire childhood inside it. Wonderful write, Thomas. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
July 15th, 2026 20:45
Tristan Robert Lange said:
My friend, \"Tom Sawyer is probably still waiting in a box somewhere down in the basement\" is the image that stayed with me. It\'s amazing how one forgotten box can carry an entire childhood inside it. Wonderful write, Thomas. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
July 15th, 2026 20:45
Porch Cat Gospel
NafisaSB said:
Humans also have the tendency to be ungrateful so the cat is just following its natural instincts
July 15th, 2026 06:03
NafisaSB said:
Humans also have the tendency to be ungrateful so the cat is just following its natural instincts
July 15th, 2026 06:03
The Places we Carry
Kevin Hulme said:
I Like the Penultimate Stanza. Says alot. A fave for sure.
July 14th, 2026 18:12
Kevin Hulme said:
I Like the Penultimate Stanza. Says alot. A fave for sure.
July 14th, 2026 18:12
The Places we Carry
Teddy.15 said:
A theme very close to my heart beautifully done dear Thomas. 🌹
July 14th, 2026 10:28
Teddy.15 said:
A theme very close to my heart beautifully done dear Thomas. 🌹
July 14th, 2026 10:28
The Places we Carry
Doggerel Dave said:
You\'ve done it again ! I\'m with you on the constant movement (how could I not be, the the rich clarity) my pathway similar but different, the need to land, stop and lay down some roots; twenty something years feels right for me.
July 14th, 2026 08:38
Doggerel Dave said:
You\'ve done it again ! I\'m with you on the constant movement (how could I not be, the the rich clarity) my pathway similar but different, the need to land, stop and lay down some roots; twenty something years feels right for me.
July 14th, 2026 08:38
The Places we Carry
arqios said:
It became too much to carry so had to physically leave it all behind one day. The rest seems to have found homes in bits and pieces of poems. 🙏🕊️
July 14th, 2026 08:10
arqios said:
It became too much to carry so had to physically leave it all behind one day. The rest seems to have found homes in bits and pieces of poems. 🙏🕊️
July 14th, 2026 08:10
The Places we Carry
sorenbarrett said:
Thomas this hit close to the bone where my oldest son lived in eighteen different houses by the time he was in high school and I was not in the military. We were gypsies in a nonethnic way. This poem is so personal with the metaphor of boxes piled \"towns blurred in the rear view mirror\" a great line that sends it message well. Transience interspersed with such wonderful images of roots in nature and an anchor of a rural living with its permanence. To end it with Tom Sawyer works so well. You have done so well what a great poem is supposed to do manipulated feelings. A fave
July 14th, 2026 07:50
sorenbarrett said:
Thomas this hit close to the bone where my oldest son lived in eighteen different houses by the time he was in high school and I was not in the military. We were gypsies in a nonethnic way. This poem is so personal with the metaphor of boxes piled \"towns blurred in the rear view mirror\" a great line that sends it message well. Transience interspersed with such wonderful images of roots in nature and an anchor of a rural living with its permanence. To end it with Tom Sawyer works so well. You have done so well what a great poem is supposed to do manipulated feelings. A fave
July 14th, 2026 07:50
Field Notes from a Wet Summer
Doggerel Dave said:
Your ability to recall in context, to slip from one part of your life and tie this to another is one of the skills which make your pieces so interesting. The ease with which you allow me to read and understand I greatly value, Thomas. And here, of course is no exception
July 12th, 2026 18:43
Doggerel Dave said:
Your ability to recall in context, to slip from one part of your life and tie this to another is one of the skills which make your pieces so interesting. The ease with which you allow me to read and understand I greatly value, Thomas. And here, of course is no exception
July 12th, 2026 18:43
Field Notes from a Wet Summer
nephilim56 ( Norman Dickson) said:
a beautiful nostalgic write and a fav
July 12th, 2026 09:34
nephilim56 ( Norman Dickson) said:
a beautiful nostalgic write and a fav
July 12th, 2026 09:34
Field Notes from a Wet Summer
sorenbarrett said:
Lovely Thomas this poem speaks that that universal boy in all of us. You have captured the heart of what innocence is and its difference from growing up. In common identifiable activities you have written deep lines of development and psychology. Very nicely done and a fave my friend
July 12th, 2026 09:06
sorenbarrett said:
Lovely Thomas this poem speaks that that universal boy in all of us. You have captured the heart of what innocence is and its difference from growing up. In common identifiable activities you have written deep lines of development and psychology. Very nicely done and a fave my friend
July 12th, 2026 09:06
Field Notes from a Wet Summer
arqios said:
A Fave, Thomas. Indeed, that time had arrived and it\'s strange how we continue differently and forever is always present but now somehow inaccessible. 🙏🕊️
July 12th, 2026 07:03
arqios said:
A Fave, Thomas. Indeed, that time had arrived and it\'s strange how we continue differently and forever is always present but now somehow inaccessible. 🙏🕊️
July 12th, 2026 07:03
Porch Cat Gospel
cellinic said:
A poem with deep meanings and senses, overwhelming by their humanism and integrity. best wishes, my fave
July 8th, 2026 05:09
cellinic said:
A poem with deep meanings and senses, overwhelming by their humanism and integrity. best wishes, my fave
July 8th, 2026 05:09
Porch Cat Gospel
Neville said:
There\'s a whole lot of truth squeezed into this page Thomas .. and I very much approve of it .. Neville
July 8th, 2026 01:37
Neville said:
There\'s a whole lot of truth squeezed into this page Thomas .. and I very much approve of it .. Neville
July 8th, 2026 01:37
Porch Cat Gospel
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Wow, Thomas…this one made me laugh out loud while also landing an oddly perfect little truth about wanting things and regretting them. Excellent job! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
July 7th, 2026 23:09
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Wow, Thomas…this one made me laugh out loud while also landing an oddly perfect little truth about wanting things and regretting them. Excellent job! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
July 7th, 2026 23:09
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