BURNING A BRIDGE

Sometimes we light the bridge before its time ... really good poem hun only one suggestion for the moment Think of those friends you spared no forgive .... you spared to forgive ?? just an idea love and hugs JayCee x x x (Quote~~"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. "--Charles Baudelaire)

very nice work, my friend...i like it alot! Love-Faith ~I never say anything I don't mean nor do I say anything to be mean.~

Who else but you would look at a burning bridge as interrupting river traffic instead of road's traffic?Wonderful point of view and work..........scribbler

Ann of Norway Burning Bridges  As you canoe down a river
 there’s a bridge up ahead.........a bridge..just one? 
Instead of it standing 
it’s burning instead Don’t burn your bridges.......several bridges? .....Slight logic troubles for me! 
before your time Friends, far and few
 may leave you behind As the river ripples 
under a burning bridge............is it too many burnings now?...flaming or?
 Think of those friends 
you spared to forgive Life on a river can ripple and roar..........life ripples?.....the life of a river ripples?
 you’re rowing your boat 
Check mates to the shore............a little contrived? 
loss of time to sow few oats..........! As you canoe down a river
 there’s a bridge up ahead 
Instead of it standing 
it’s burning instead.............. ....In this last verse you could make a subtle different little twist as Frédéric Chopin did in his repetitions of passages of music, the same pattern you will notice is so very slightly different from the first and yet to those who only listen generally they don't catch this lovely subtlety. Its a nice little thought neatly short, could have the feeling of going over a bridge, a trail in life, and reach a kind of climax at the centre of it as if reaching the summit of the bridge...s, adding a spice to the hardship of the experience! Just a funny idea of mine. Now I have been honest and said what I think, so please forgive me if it clashs with the first colours of your thoughts dear sweet magic Mona, love from Ann.X     Mms 7.05.10

Some bridges need to be burned, but as you say, "Don’t burn your bridges before your time" On that part I suggest "before it's time" or "before their time" I don't see a logic problem with going from singular to plural and back, to me it seems like this isn't a physical bridge. I do agree with Ann on using some "flaming" to avoid so much "burning", also, the two "instead"s on the first and last stanza could be avoided. Maybe "It's no longer standing, but burning instead" For rhyming purposes, maybe "left stranded on the ridge" instead of "you spared to forgive", it changes the meaning of that stanza but fits with the rest, tough call. Overall great, powerful images. Maybe I'm thinking too much but it seems to me that the person in the canoe is looking at someone else burning their metaphorical bridge, if you have a canoe a bridge seems kinda redundant. Like having two friends who no longer talk to each other but the person in the canoe is still friends with both. Maybe that person will help'em build a new, stronger bridge... or just give'em a ride in the canoe! Antoine

This poem sounds like someone I recently knew. too bad the person I knew was so blind. A great poem leaving food for thought. I like the way you started and ended the poem with the same lines. My favorites: As the river ripples under a burning bridge Think of those friends you spared to forgive Love, Cat