I'm not into borrowing Gods. I worship the great outdoors and this wonderful world, which evolved over time for us to live in and enjoy.

Thanks Dovina with the mystic name, I admire your lack of cynicism, but regret that Decline and Fall failed to register as a metaphor for the corrupt and corruption all around us. For Zoo Keepers read politicians.

Too deep and numerical for me. As a sculptor my poems are rendered in stone with a mallet and chisel, it's the only way they stay immortal and the exercise keeps me fit and so patient.

I will never take to free verse, must be my age, give me a good old fashioned rhyming poem any day. Yet, never too late, must try. One thing I would like to see, a 'tumulous' ocean with an 'o'.

This is a reminder to all of us that love is a four letter word which must be used frequently, without qualification. It is the poem we all love to hear. This poem reached me and I'm old and cynical. Well done.

Dovina, I was unaware I had deleted comments on Decline and Fall, must have been the devil in me. Re The Drop I prefer my ending its the only time I get a commended.

There was a young girl called Joanna
with a face shaped like a banana.
Her boyfriend said so,
I want you to know,
she's bent and comes from Havana.

Move on, you lost your virginity. The world is full of predators who take what they want or are offered it on a plate. It taught you a lesson, it's called the getting of wisdom. Let your next poem be a happy one,it lies within you, let it free.

This poem is disingenuous, is it some sort of avant garde
form of writing to scare off readers and give poetry a bad name? Please, let's make poetry readable and enjoyable.

You are a poet and I like your style, it says something and says it well.

I find this too contrived and boringly repetitive, there is more 'ore' in this than the whole of Western Australia.
Perhaps it's me and I don't understand the structure, please enlighten me, I am willing to learn