Wow! This was amazing, you're a grand writer, I loved your poem so much! I'll be looking for more of your work, this was fantastic!

Wonderful, I love the way that you blend the effective rhymes with the realistic and deepness of the whole truth; she may have been alone but she still had him with her and even in the end the people around her denied her of that. The most effective line that I found was: "safe in Jack's arms she thrills to his touch he's teasing, pleasing, she loves him so much" and " now a nursing home where lonely as trees just one more old lady, blanket round knee sickness, disinfectant, drug-fuzzled haze voices jarred, joints bent, slow motion days
she says she sees him, they pat the gnarled hand
so on she dwells in her twilight dreamland" Very effective and amazing. I love how you made it so real and also rhymed (I said that above to) but I could never do that and I think that its great that you can. Keep up the good work, Amazing poem.

A lovely poem. Evocative images. I particulary like the image of the people in the nursing home patting the old lady's hand when she tells them she has seen her love. In this poem, Rose reminds me of Ruth Becker Blanchard, who was 12 when she survived Titanic. I saw her in her old age. She lived quite a life. There are so many old people, reliving the greatest moments of their lives and of the century in their dreams: Titanic, the Depression, the wars, the Civil Right movement, Woodstock even. Especially good when we have been reminded of the past this month via Rememberance Day and American Thanksgiving. Very well done, to see Rose as an old lady reliving such dreams.