Comments on: Tonight You Will Shave

By: Joel

Joel — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:31:26 +0000

Saw you on facebook, saw you were writing poetry and clicked on the link. I remember how interesting you were in class so I imagined your poetry to be the same.

By: J. Scott Mosel

J. Scott Mosel — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:28:21 +0000

Thank you Joel. First off, thank you so much for the comments. Also, I made some editing changes to your language. The English teacher thing never completely goes away. I hope you are doing well. How did you find the site?

By: Joel

Joel — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:05:03 +0000

Mosel, you may not remember but I took your English class a few years ago (Wapakoneta). Anyways, that was a great poem, and I must thank you for making me write so many papers; now, in college, it has help tremendously. Take care and keep writing.

By: J. Scott Mosel

J. Scott Mosel — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:33:48 +0000

Thank you so much for the comments and for finding us. Please spread the word, drop us a line from time to time, and submit some of your own work if you can.

By: Leadie Jo Flowers

Leadie Jo Flowers — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:50:03 +0000

From the death row inmate to the old man knowing his time has come. in almost all cases, where one knows, this would apply, even the woman. I love the way you balanced the lines and used the words against one another. Much as we do in life.

By: J. Scott Mosel

J. Scott Mosel — Mon, 11 May 2009 04:01:18 +0000

Thank you Lois, and it’s so nice to see you on board here. This is an old poem, but newly revised, originally written in El Salvador. Joe helped cut the ending down to the essential.

By: Lois

Lois — Mon, 11 May 2009 03:41:54 +0000

Wow. You really captured something here, Scott. Isn’t it so true that the shaving and the every day tasks seem insurmountable sometimes? There is something so much bigger than all that and so tough to articulate. Yet you did. Love you.