Mary's Review of Jaclyn's Poem

The imagery of this poem produces a powerful effect of reminiscent memories through the course of time. So true, how do we know how much a person will influence our lives when even when we cross just one time. The third and fifth lines describe the brevity of the experience quite clearly. In contrast, the experience may have been of more duration but those individuals have been out of our lives for a length. I liked the fifth line, ...Like a flash from a photograph...and consider this a unique and colorful way of referring to the lingering but brief encounters that mean so much in our lives today. I thought of this as lovely and thought-provoking, invoking a sense of imperativeness-pay attention to every minute of every day, always; one never knows when such an encounter may change one's entire perspective. The nineteenth line, We tend to take for granted, is a bit of a cliche. This reader would have preferred a more original way of stating the same idea. In this way the the poem may sound more integrated and provide a lovely enhancement of what is already written so beautifully