Calamine

Hi DD Forgive my newbieness this is my 1st review a work reflects both the writer and the reader and I havent let this piece sit with me long just enough to read reread and ponder on its meanings My first response is my own personal critique at myself for not being able to engage with the language due to my limited vocabulary. I'll have to look up acrostic. I can hazard a guess reference to a healing solution or property. but I continue on and find something to cling to the description of lotion and balm without using the terms. and as I read and reread I find a way in and think that there is more to be told though perhaps being short and concise is your aim and device. perhaps this is a teaser there is more to follow again forgive my newbieniceness perhaps instead of stating what I think a better way to respond is to ask questions. where is the aroma dear calamine? the spells to the senses sensations delivered to the nasal cavity and images remembered. and I read again like a mantra and I find energy that I like in Meaningful progress an itch away in the darkest hour of torture not a soul can help ease the pain except the pink release of Calamine cheers manawa

Hello, Clever acrostic...and brought back memories of childhood..slaubed in the stuff...days before we understood what UV rays meant! As a redhead...I was always burnt and itchy...lying on the bed face down pulsating heat....my mum, gingerly wiping the pink stuff till it went 'chalky'...horrible pong...urgh...thanks, very evocative piece! Ells x

some family issues came up I had to deal with, I think we’ve talked about them. You win, doubly! Both clever, well written and stand in their own right. You probably would have won anyway. Cheers, Jess, Reprehensibly irrepressible

A great write Julie...thourghly enjoy it. Rosina xena465

i had written a big, long, rambling comment about how I had chicken-pox during the first days of summer vacation, but my computer decided to do an update, and shut itself down, taking it with it to oblivion! Suffice to say, it was a soothing balm, applied by my mother, and helped immensely to ease my suffering. Great acrostic. You hit the nail right on the head, when you wrote the lines: "Meaningful progress an itch away In the darkest hour of torture Not a soul can help ease the pain Except the pink release of Calamine Pain and Calamine do not exactly rhyme, but I loved it anyways, ~ Gee

The half rhyme of pain and calamine...is by the middle vowel sounds....(assonance) Ells

remember those long ago days sunburns and blackfly season hanging out enjoying the new season too much to ignore the obvious a freind with poison ivy feeling helpless but the lotion worked for them a great poem Julie your freind Esker~