Just One More Drink... (poem) by Linda M Hill on AuthorsDen

Reviewed on March 31, 2003

good write--
for 28 years as a pastoral care giver i have worked with people who have lost their health nd freedom to booze. they have been business execs, clergy, farmers, shop keepers, first nations people, teachers, health care proffessionals, house wives ... the only thing that has changed if that they are younger and younger each year...

a nasty illness with no sure cure

again, good write

john

Reviewed by Elizabeth Taylor (Reader)

Reviewed on March 31, 2003

Ahhh, Linda. You have a way of getting to the heart of the matter, and wringing emotion from it. Brilliant !

Reviewed by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado

Reviewed on March 31, 2003

so sad, this write! so sorry about your mother being killed by a drunken driver. if it were not for that idiot, your mother would have probably still be living! so sad, linda! (((HUGS))) and love, your twin, karen lynn. >tears < :(

Reviewed by Lady Peg (Reader)

Reviewed on March 31, 2003

Excellent Linda.....
Peg

Reviewed by Lisa Hilbers

Reviewed on March 31, 2003

I lived with it for nearly 10 years,,then divorced it,,then it took his life. He left behind 3 kids. The stuff is poisonious to the body. And they just don't get it...Great write Linda,,,Lisa

Reviewed by Lisa Hilbers

Reviewed on March 31, 2003

Excess in anything is always wrong. Excellent poem.

Reviewed by na na (Reader)

Reviewed on March 31, 2003

My dearest Linda, I well know the perils of alchohol. Alchoholic from 12 to 50 I drank and drove; sometimes without even knowing that I was driving. Yes Angel, this is a serious problem. It was a miracle when I stopped drinking and this stopped my drunk driving. Many many are like me, and society
pays a terrible price. AA is the greatest thing an alcoholic has. Through AA people do
and can recover, if they can be honest with themselves. I love you and this is a wonderful article. You are brilliant and wonderful writer. Keep writing these fine constructive poems. And you will go far.
Release the negative problems in your life.
Bill xoxox

Reviewed by Joel Raja Kumar J (Reader)

Reviewed on March 31, 2003

Wonderful Linda, though so sad and painful

Love from India - Joel -

Reviewed by Paul Berube

Reviewed on March 31, 2003

Linda, excellent but sad write. If only they knew the effects and the many lives that one extra drink could have they would think twice. Drunk driving laws, although, getting more severe are not nearly severe enough. Society keeps arming these habitual offenders and unleashing them upon them upon us. Hopefully if we ban together we can apply the pressure to control this bane.

Reviewed by Retta (Reindeer) Mckenzie

Reviewed on March 31, 2003

Ah Linda, I am sorry if I brought back sad memories, My brother was a beautiful person, until he drank, then he became a monster that we feared so much, Your words here ring so true, He died at the age of 36 from his alcohol abuse...but he left many wounded people behind in his wake.

This was such an excellent poem, on this subject.

My heart goes out to you,

Reindeer

Reviewed by Tony Nerone (Reader)

Reviewed on March 31, 2003

Good Morning Linda
Yikes, Booze is an enemy to everyone. It is a depressant.And who needs more depression? I love the vivid images in your poem, Linda. Excellent write of course.

yf
tony

Reviewed by Ted Sheridan (Reader)

Reviewed on March 31, 2003

Never trust the bottle, it lies.