Welcome by Raoul Fernandes

[Dick Westheimer]

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[Kgaz]

There's some bittersweet about the two final lines. Really haunting.

[D M Gordon]

I love the spare brilliance of "Welcome." The title expands the way a pebble, dropped in pond water, makes rings. And in so few words, the journey of the poem, by the end, becomes huge. Devastating, actually. I have a favorite poem file. In it goes. I'm floored, in the best sense. Bravo.🙏

[Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris]

Well written! Thank you! 😊

[J.R. Solonche]

Brilliant.