Arti
I agree with one of the comments before me - this is one of your best. Real men do cry... rainfall in their hearts falls as dew on the baby rose.
2007-01-16

Phyllis J. Rhodes
Did I ever hear John Wayne say that? I can see it happening as he sees yet another young marine die in Maureen O'Hara's lap as she loses her composure and buries her face in her hands. Michael, this is one of your best.
2007-01-16

I watched big bro last night and the gay guy was crying in the toilets because the girls were bullying the Indian girl Mike, and my son said to me, isn't he gay mum, and I said yes Ross, but you don't have to be gay to cry as a man, just in touch with your emotions! Excellent poem, I loved it. Smiling at you, wiping those tears away....Tai
2007-01-16

When I clicked on the name of this poem I had absolutely no idea what thrills it would bring into my soul...starting with the form, the idea, and ending with the marvelous mood it puts my soul into, this is brilliant...Michael, this is only something a real man could do, could write, could admit about himself...
Thank you!!!...
Lilly xxx
2007-01-16

I say the same as Katy!
As to your poem, hero, this is one of your most moving and heartfelt. Therefore, particularly beautiful!
2007-01-16

Kathy Lockhart
i would rather have a man with a heart so tender that tears flow than a man with a heart so hardened that only stones grow. xxx
2007-01-16

kath
but real men do .... and it is a strange myth ... that men should be without tears ...

A very sad emotion that comes through these words and Brian Ferry's song echos beside them ...

rgds kath
2007-01-16