Comments received on poems by Tony Grannell
No Beauty Here
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Wow! This is a powerful poetic expression that immediately brought to mind both Billie Holiday’s \"Strange Fruit\" and a book I’ve read by the Rev. Dr. James Cone, \"The Cross and the Lynching Tree.\" In fact, if I’m not mistaken, Cone references \"Strange Fruit\" early in the first chapter. Anyway—wow! This was incredibly powerful, Tony. A favorite for me for so many reasons. I truly appreciate you and your voice, my friend. 🌹👏
April 27th, 2025 13:14
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Wow! This is a powerful poetic expression that immediately brought to mind both Billie Holiday’s \"Strange Fruit\" and a book I’ve read by the Rev. Dr. James Cone, \"The Cross and the Lynching Tree.\" In fact, if I’m not mistaken, Cone references \"Strange Fruit\" early in the first chapter. Anyway—wow! This was incredibly powerful, Tony. A favorite for me for so many reasons. I truly appreciate you and your voice, my friend. 🌹👏
April 27th, 2025 13:14
No Beauty Here
sorenbarrett said:
A strong picture painted here that evoked the Billie Holliday song Strange Fruit. A well painted poem
April 27th, 2025 11:56
sorenbarrett said:
A strong picture painted here that evoked the Billie Holliday song Strange Fruit. A well painted poem
April 27th, 2025 11:56
No Beauty Here
Cheeky Missy said:
Goodnight! How ghastly and macabre! How sinister and eerie. How shocking and inhumane and horrifying. Gorgeously rendered with exquisite imagery and an irresistible, deeply haunting poignancy. Thank you for sharing.
April 27th, 2025 11:19
Cheeky Missy said:
Goodnight! How ghastly and macabre! How sinister and eerie. How shocking and inhumane and horrifying. Gorgeously rendered with exquisite imagery and an irresistible, deeply haunting poignancy. Thank you for sharing.
April 27th, 2025 11:19
Autumn\'s Sonneteer
Cheeky Missy said:
\"....four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie--\" and they seem characteristically extremely flirtatious, most notably in the Fall. Expertly utilizing that term to excellent effect, I love your rhythmic style which adds so much to the perusal it\'s more pleasurable than not. Gorgeously rendered with delicious imagery and a delightful poignancy. Thank you for sharing.
April 27th, 2025 11:15
Cheeky Missy said:
\"....four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie--\" and they seem characteristically extremely flirtatious, most notably in the Fall. Expertly utilizing that term to excellent effect, I love your rhythmic style which adds so much to the perusal it\'s more pleasurable than not. Gorgeously rendered with delicious imagery and a delightful poignancy. Thank you for sharing.
April 27th, 2025 11:15
Autumn\'s Sonneteer
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Wow! Masterfully written. Classically lyrical and the seasonal progression from Spring to Summer to Fall to Winter...the cycle and song of life and death. Superb. Bravo. Faved! 🌹👏
April 26th, 2025 20:00
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Wow! Masterfully written. Classically lyrical and the seasonal progression from Spring to Summer to Fall to Winter...the cycle and song of life and death. Superb. Bravo. Faved! 🌹👏
April 26th, 2025 20:00
Autumn\'s Sonneteer
David Wakeling said:
This is a masterpiece. Incredible structure and cadence and rhyme.It is as perfect as can be.Well done
April 26th, 2025 17:29
David Wakeling said:
This is a masterpiece. Incredible structure and cadence and rhyme.It is as perfect as can be.Well done
April 26th, 2025 17:29
Autumn\'s Sonneteer
sorenbarrett said:
Brilliant! Every once in blue moon comes a poem that holds classic grace and charm, such it this. Truly magnificent in its rhyme and rhyme scheme its meter so well paced and the flow very smooth. The story completes a full circle of the seasons and the metaphor with life itself is well done. In a way it seems like Poe and in another like Willis, especially in the rhyme scheme that resembles his (Unseen spirts) one of my favorites. This is an instant fave
April 26th, 2025 14:59
sorenbarrett said:
Brilliant! Every once in blue moon comes a poem that holds classic grace and charm, such it this. Truly magnificent in its rhyme and rhyme scheme its meter so well paced and the flow very smooth. The story completes a full circle of the seasons and the metaphor with life itself is well done. In a way it seems like Poe and in another like Willis, especially in the rhyme scheme that resembles his (Unseen spirts) one of my favorites. This is an instant fave
April 26th, 2025 14:59
Runaways
Tristan Robert Lange said:
This has such a wonderfully classic feel and it speaks profound truth. Laugh or cry, perhaps both at the same time, that\'s where we are right now. Well written. Tony. A fave. 🌹👏
April 25th, 2025 08:22
Tristan Robert Lange said:
This has such a wonderfully classic feel and it speaks profound truth. Laugh or cry, perhaps both at the same time, that\'s where we are right now. Well written. Tony. A fave. 🌹👏
April 25th, 2025 08:22
Runaways
sorenbarrett said:
A master poet lives in this poem. Such classic form and wording. It rings of yesterday indeed. The subject too is a questioning of our return to old ways that we had fought so hard to overcome. It is so well put in rhetorical question form. I truly love this piece a fave
April 25th, 2025 06:17
sorenbarrett said:
A master poet lives in this poem. Such classic form and wording. It rings of yesterday indeed. The subject too is a questioning of our return to old ways that we had fought so hard to overcome. It is so well put in rhetorical question form. I truly love this piece a fave
April 25th, 2025 06:17
The Stained Silk Dress
teardrop said:
This was sad. Maybe her arrogant behavior at first was a mask trying to hide her pain. Great read. I enjoyed this very much.
April 24th, 2025 04:11
teardrop said:
This was sad. Maybe her arrogant behavior at first was a mask trying to hide her pain. Great read. I enjoyed this very much.
April 24th, 2025 04:11
The Rover\'s Song
teardrop said:
I envy your writing style here. I love this, the wording, the message. All together a great write. Defiantly made this a favorite..
April 24th, 2025 03:30
teardrop said:
I envy your writing style here. I love this, the wording, the message. All together a great write. Defiantly made this a favorite..
April 24th, 2025 03:30
The Abortion
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Wow. This is powerful—truly powerful. The graphic imagery isn’t gratuitous; it serves the poem’s unflinching purpose and delivers a gut-punch of truth. The language is brutal, yes, but also beautifully wrought. You don’t look away, and as a reader, I couldn’t either. Well done, Tony. 🌹👏🖤
April 23rd, 2025 07:29
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Wow. This is powerful—truly powerful. The graphic imagery isn’t gratuitous; it serves the poem’s unflinching purpose and delivers a gut-punch of truth. The language is brutal, yes, but also beautifully wrought. You don’t look away, and as a reader, I couldn’t either. Well done, Tony. 🌹👏🖤
April 23rd, 2025 07:29
The Abortion
sorenbarrett said:
Wow! This one graphic, raw, hard hitting in its explicit imagery paints a gory literal picture and sends a strong message but may also be metaphoric of all of mans unwanted pregnancies of thought and their eradication in brutal forms. This one so well written a fave
April 23rd, 2025 07:26
sorenbarrett said:
Wow! This one graphic, raw, hard hitting in its explicit imagery paints a gory literal picture and sends a strong message but may also be metaphoric of all of mans unwanted pregnancies of thought and their eradication in brutal forms. This one so well written a fave
April 23rd, 2025 07:26
The Stained Silk Dress
Doggerel Dave said:
Thoroughly enjoyed that excursion into high tea and taste. Now please locate the boar and employ it to finish the job……
April 22nd, 2025 21:11
Doggerel Dave said:
Thoroughly enjoyed that excursion into high tea and taste. Now please locate the boar and employ it to finish the job……
April 22nd, 2025 21:11
The Rover\'s Song
Doggerel Dave said:
I\'m a readin\' great verse an rhyme there, faved for future savourin\'
April 22nd, 2025 20:43
Doggerel Dave said:
I\'m a readin\' great verse an rhyme there, faved for future savourin\'
April 22nd, 2025 20:43
The Rover\'s Song
sorenbarrett said:
The process of life and death all contained in this poem. Lovely
April 22nd, 2025 13:18
sorenbarrett said:
The process of life and death all contained in this poem. Lovely
April 22nd, 2025 13:18
Go Tell the Greek
Cheeky Missy said:
You\'re downright hilarious yet oh! So delightfully capable in a trice, dancing in a measured rhythm down the page with quatrains winking every moment until I\'m tickled whilst imbibing your tale. Too beautifully rendered with gorgeous imagery and a lovely poignancy. Thank you so very much for sharing. I love it!
April 21st, 2025 18:11
Cheeky Missy said:
You\'re downright hilarious yet oh! So delightfully capable in a trice, dancing in a measured rhythm down the page with quatrains winking every moment until I\'m tickled whilst imbibing your tale. Too beautifully rendered with gorgeous imagery and a lovely poignancy. Thank you so very much for sharing. I love it!
April 21st, 2025 18:11
Go Tell the Greek
sorenbarrett said:
This poem\'s style fits its subject and the end gives reference to its beginning making it complete in is Odyssean journey. A lovely write of knowledge gained by experience and age. Your words are well crafted and framed in teak. A very classically artful poem that seems to have walked in out of a past era. Loved it
April 21st, 2025 05:50
sorenbarrett said:
This poem\'s style fits its subject and the end gives reference to its beginning making it complete in is Odyssean journey. A lovely write of knowledge gained by experience and age. Your words are well crafted and framed in teak. A very classically artful poem that seems to have walked in out of a past era. Loved it
April 21st, 2025 05:50
The Dream
teardrop said:
Smiles! This was penned so perfect you could not help but smile. Very clever write.
April 21st, 2025 05:04
teardrop said:
Smiles! This was penned so perfect you could not help but smile. Very clever write.
April 21st, 2025 05:04
The Dream
jarcher54 said:
I recall some of your work from years ago... please don\'t go away so long! I was beginning to think you were \"never there\"!
Your tight little pieces are fun and witty and then, after you let them sink in, pretty profound!
April 20th, 2025 19:10
jarcher54 said:
I recall some of your work from years ago... please don\'t go away so long! I was beginning to think you were \"never there\"!
Your tight little pieces are fun and witty and then, after you let them sink in, pretty profound!
April 20th, 2025 19:10
The Dream
sorenbarrett said:
Clever and well said in good rhyme. Loved the idea and poem
April 20th, 2025 11:31
sorenbarrett said:
Clever and well said in good rhyme. Loved the idea and poem
April 20th, 2025 11:31
My Man
Cheeky Missy said:
\"...took [you] an age to [pen]--\" did this? But oh! It\'s so very beautiful with a rollicking sense of rhythm and heartening good sense, as if in truth spoken by the \"common\" man/woman. Charmingly rendered with exquisite imagery and a waltzing poignancy, thank you very much for sharing, I love it.
April 16th, 2025 14:11
Cheeky Missy said:
\"...took [you] an age to [pen]--\" did this? But oh! It\'s so very beautiful with a rollicking sense of rhythm and heartening good sense, as if in truth spoken by the \"common\" man/woman. Charmingly rendered with exquisite imagery and a waltzing poignancy, thank you very much for sharing, I love it.
April 16th, 2025 14:11
The Stained Silk Dress
sorenbarrett said:
Now I felt that I had just read a Dickens or Tolstoy novel. The descriptions were as impeccable as its subject and the images painted were from the classical era of painting. So well worded that it was hard to put down. Lovely with a great ending as well
April 16th, 2025 13:40
sorenbarrett said:
Now I felt that I had just read a Dickens or Tolstoy novel. The descriptions were as impeccable as its subject and the images painted were from the classical era of painting. So well worded that it was hard to put down. Lovely with a great ending as well
April 16th, 2025 13:40
The Stained Silk Dress
Cheeky Missy said:
Poor lady. Nothing lasts forever, which we mutually hate and love, as some things can\'t end soon enough while others can never last forever. Poetic indeed, whilst seeming prose, burgeoned with such decadent vocabulary one must swoon, the tale is a haunting metaphor applicable to more than one instance. Excellently rendered with delicious details and piercing imagery, its poignancy is weighty. Thank you for sharing.
April 16th, 2025 13:16
Cheeky Missy said:
Poor lady. Nothing lasts forever, which we mutually hate and love, as some things can\'t end soon enough while others can never last forever. Poetic indeed, whilst seeming prose, burgeoned with such decadent vocabulary one must swoon, the tale is a haunting metaphor applicable to more than one instance. Excellently rendered with delicious details and piercing imagery, its poignancy is weighty. Thank you for sharing.
April 16th, 2025 13:16
Bayou Blue
Poetic Licence said:
Now that is something different to read and enjoy, a love story with a darker side, love the wording used and it flows really nicely, very enjoyable read
April 13th, 2025 13:19
Poetic Licence said:
Now that is something different to read and enjoy, a love story with a darker side, love the wording used and it flows really nicely, very enjoyable read
April 13th, 2025 13:19
Bayou Blue
Cheeky Missy said:
Whoa! This is akin to a breath of fresh air in its delicious rhythm and rollicking as the lines trip sweetly down the page as if breathing life into this genre. Gorgeously rendered with exceptional imagery and a haunting poignancy. Thank you, thank you for sharing. I love it!
April 13th, 2025 12:16
Cheeky Missy said:
Whoa! This is akin to a breath of fresh air in its delicious rhythm and rollicking as the lines trip sweetly down the page as if breathing life into this genre. Gorgeously rendered with exceptional imagery and a haunting poignancy. Thank you, thank you for sharing. I love it!
April 13th, 2025 12:16
Bayou Blue
sorenbarrett said:
A murder love story as I take it. Creepy, haunting and a great story told in good jargon. Well written a fave
April 13th, 2025 11:44
sorenbarrett said:
A murder love story as I take it. Creepy, haunting and a great story told in good jargon. Well written a fave
April 13th, 2025 11:44
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