Brave Hearts

enda, patrick collins. i can see why you like winter poetry your so good at them this flows with ease as always cat very well protrayed fave line is the last a great ending well done ziggy

You are the Winter Queen. Sensual,sexy yet a very elegant write and I love it. Title is apt, I think and if read slow and low, it is perfecto. Wish I had a sultry husky voice so I could hear myself read it out loud. LOL Love Lyz. XX

How exact the title, and it it is amazing how you guide the reader to the conclusion. This is a couple who has seen many a love tribulation, the neverending bittersweets of being together, and in spite it all, huddled tight against each other, as if that is all that mattered, the family, and probably the kids. Brave hearts is a favorite of mine. I love it, really. I wish I had written something like that! Sincerely, Hugo

I like this poem,Cat, its complex and smooth, and the ending clinches it nicely nice work Ray

I bow to the mistress of the pen you my darlin' have again blown my mind ... spotlight needs to light this up ... wonderful beautiful poignant ... you know how I feel ;) love and higgest bugs Jayne x x x

Snake and I both read this today and loved it ... and I had hoped for it to go to spotlight and here you are huni woooooot LOL congrates darlin' love and higgest bugs Jayne x x x

excellent romantic write, Cat; you've got some serious imaginative power going on here. this in particular allows the reader a keyhole into a latent doubt about the relationship: Was the marriage of sultry, smoky, Jazz/With his dreams of loving/Inside the cafe, reflective conversation/Could be heard through the ceiling tiles.." nice lines! GB

How can I remark on brilliance. I loved this poem, you are a magican with the pen. love, greeneyes

This is a very skilled woven story... It leads us through many scenes and back drops to the final show stopping moment. A beautiful write with great depth Cat. Best Wishes Seabhac

Cat, You brought me right there to the sceene of your poem. I immediately formed a mental picture of this place, and the couple. Nicely done! ___________________________________________________ Income-tax forms should be more realistic by allowing the taxpayer to list "Uncle Sam" as a dependent Anonymous

Oh now Cat what have we here??!!! This is so much up my street... from the open descriptives that paint a snowy scene so delicately to the romance soaked air that you can literally sniff and inhale off the page that sets your heart on to high beats and you face unto smiles. The descriptives are brilliant and entice the reader into the poem and draws in their attention that your own dreams and imagination mix and mingle with your words to produce a startlingly lovign piece that rolls down a mountain like a snowball until you get splatted at the bottom of the hill with a ball the size of king kong and spalts you to the floor with amazing flair and verve. That snowy sensation soon subsides however as the heat and smoke warms up the cockles and melts the snow and the hearts of all the readers. Excellebt theme, wordplay and the flow is simply mellifluous indeed! Bravo cat! Take it to the stage and give yourself a bow.... Dale :)

This truly reminds me of a world war II movie scene, the nostalgic, sad music, in a smokey room, the harshly cold winter outside with a false sense of peace, quiet, and beauty. I can hear the horns. This image also fits with the title. However, I don't think that's what you were thinking. The poem also sounds a little New Yorky, the cafe and the jazz and all, although, I bet you the cigarettes are gone from any contemporary scene. But they probably didn't have cappuccino in world war II. So I am having fun with this. 'Was the marriage of sultry, smoky, Jazz' a nice line---what is the meaning of the capital letter in jazz? You must have had a reason. 'Bucking, against the unbiased winds of time.' My take would probably be 'biased winds of time' but that's me and that would wreck the nice meter. Yours, Deelilah