I love that your poem blends perfectly with the accompanying picture.
I am a great fan of monochrome having being brought in a monochrome world, when the only colour we had as a kid was at the cinema and some early bad colour photography.
A marvellous portrayal from the opening lines of repeated wording right through to the end.
Wonderful

Comment is about As you please (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

I am frankly not surprised that you have achieved POTW. This is excellent and I am highly delighted for you.
Many congratulations Dorothy

Comment is about Dorothy Webb's 'The Silent March of 2001' is Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Stuart Buck

Enjoyed this Ray keep heading forward towards where it leads.

Comment is about WAIT HERE FOR INFINITY (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Perfect depiction of this cold cold moment we've all experienced. Cold, cold, cold. I hate it. Loved this poem!
Thank you Rachel,?
Mae

Comment is about habitation (blog)

Original item by nunya

I suspected there must be someone around who could relate, Jason. Thanks for the kind comment.

Rachel

Comment is about habitation (blog)

Original item by nunya

Have you been reading Einstein on Special Relativity?

Comment is about WAIT HERE FOR INFINITY (blog)

Original item by ray pool

I enjoyed your poem
Gave me the feeling I am in the same place

Comment is about WAIT HERE FOR INFINITY (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Oh Master of bons mots; you have done it again. Please enlighten your poetry pupils as to where the Infinity bus stop is and the nature of the eternal terminal.

Peter

Comment is about WAIT HERE FOR INFINITY (blog)

Original item by ray pool

cheers all. the fucking is, of course, optional.

the end of the world is not.

Comment is about even though it's all switched off, a constant hum (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

I feel a great weariness - or am I projecting?

Comment is about WAIT HERE FOR INFINITY (blog)

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Thanks for your like Hazel on Walk on Blue

Comment is about Walk on Blue (blog)

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Thanks for your likes Kporho and Aviva.

Comment is about Chasing Dreams (blog)

Original item by Nigel Astell

Yes Dorothy. Big business have governments in their pocket. They provide big money.

Comment is about Australian Government. Tell Oil Companies GTFO Our Great Australian Bight (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

A plea well made D. I don't think we'll be seeing The Poetry of Donald Trump anytime soon. No offence intended.

Ray

Comment is about Endangered Poets (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Apocalyptic beauty and horror go together with this Stu. I'm thinking of War of the Worlds, but at least with that there was a happy ending and a lesson learned. These dogs are like originals, not the pampered pooches we see in peacetime. That crackling simile is just great!

Nice to see full on Stu.
Ray

Comment is about even though it's all switched off, a constant hum (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

dk are you suggesting a
Reserve that's woman-free?
Not sure how that would go down
With this still-virile me

Picture all the women
Poets wanting in
Drooling at the boundary
Getting high on vin

I'm mucking up your poem
Given Keith a boot
Think I should just drift away
..............?

Comment is about Endangered Poets (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Don Good photo
Governments all over the world are ignoring the stark warnings held within poems and videos like these.

Why? dare I suggest that they (Governments) are not in control -business is,
and dareI I suggest that, Trump like, some members of 'Government' have a lot to gain.

Or am I just cynically spreading 'fake news'

Dorothy

Comment is about Australian Government. Tell Oil Companies GTFO Our Great Australian Bight (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

A great idea dk and Keith but Keith I think you had better beg forgiveness from above. He is the 'Great Poet in the Sky'. No way is he going to cater you with bitters and picked eggs if you lower case him. ?

Comment is about Endangered Poets (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Oh Rachel, this is so accurately descriptive of a particular time in life some of us have experienced a few times. Brilliant job.

J. x

Comment is about habitation (blog)

Original item by nunya

As an old poet approaching extinction I support the idea of a reserve in a place of tranquility where we can hang up our pens as we are called by the great poet in the sky to a place of eternal verse. However, in the meantime I would appreciate that the reserve has a constant supply of best bitter and pickled eggs with potato crisps for purposes of inspiration.

A good idea
Thanks
Keith

Comment is about Endangered Poets (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Foreboding is an apt word, here, Keith--sometimes we know something's coming but can't do much about it.

I appreciate the comment.

Rachel

Comment is about habitation (blog)

Original item by nunya

Hi Melissa, really enjoyed your last poem, so I'm hoping you're going to go from strength to strength and carry on writing. Great to have you, "On board."

J. x

Comment is about Thank You For Being My Friend (blog)

Original item by Melissa Wayner

Well thank you all so much. I'm on nights right now and should be asleep, so can't think straight but I just wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart. Right, back to bed.

J. ?

Comment is about Sit Down My Friend (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Those are really motivating words.. Thanks J ?

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Original item by mona s

Those are really motivating words.. Thanks J ?

Comment is about Soul mates (blog)

Original item by mona s

Ah Charlie, I like someone prepared to break away from expected social norms as Dorothy says 'be proud of being a bit of a rebel and of who you are, it means that you are not ordinary'..

Comment is about You Ain't One of Us! (blog)

Original item by Charlie White

Charlie
I have read your comment - and re-read your poem and now i understand it so much better.

Think along different lines - be proud of being a bit of a rebel and of who you are, it means that you are not ordinary.

Be proud of both sides of your heritage - one side at least - is ancient, you are part of a culture that is world wide, be proud of that aspect.
Choose who you want to be, research your distant past and relate to that and not to present day iinterpretations which may not be authentic.
Good luck
Dorothy

p.s. keep writing you torment gives us more to think about.

Comment is about You Ain't One of Us! (blog)

Original item by Charlie White

thanks Don.
no rhyme
no reason.

wink.

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

Original item by Don Matthews

Keith, thanks for your words - it is so stimulating and thought provoking to get other people's impressions and ideas. I've also been reading about Lent and using it as a time to slow down and allow our lives to seep in.

Comment is about Walking Backwards and Getting There (3) (blog)

Original item by Hazel ettridge

David, it thrills me to know i have been the cause of your rambling.? Walking backwards was inspired by the archetype Heyoka - sacred clown of the Lakota.

Comment is about Walking Backwards and Getting There (3) (blog)

Original item by Hazel ettridge

Thank you for this series of poems which, I believe, addresses what many people are now engaged in. A sort of reappraisal of one´s life and the direction it is taking and the need to apply the breaks, to stand back and get a clearer persepctive. As free thinkers we often stop in our tracks to take stock of the world about us and our future role in it.

Thank you indeed for this

Keith

Comment is about Walking Backwards and Getting There (3) (blog)

Original item by Hazel ettridge

Rachel, yes this is frightening, but only for the part of me (huge part of me) that wants to go with the flow and be part of the tribe. However, I would hate to some day look back on my life and see only the highway - especially the 21st century highway in the western world. I need to explore some of those scary cracks and crevices. Having said that, here I am in my nice cosy house, rain lashing the window panes and still in my pyjamas- not so adventurous!

Comment is about Walking Backwards and Getting There (3) (blog)

Original item by Hazel ettridge

´ it bears down upon the air we breathe ´. An atmosphere such as this is pregnant with expectancy. There is a foreboding quality about this poem which I think many readers will relate to.

Thank you for this

Keith

Comment is about habitation (blog)

Original item by nunya

Hi Hazel & Dorothy,
Thanks for your comments, much appreciated.
It's about my experiences not conforming to societal norms from my dual heritage, something I have struggled a lot with in the past & which I look back at with some anger now but I would agree there is a sadness to it, a sadness of the 'other' I suppose.
Charlie

Comment is about You Ain't One of Us! (blog)

Original item by Charlie White

Reminds me of a recent and surprising movie, produced locally about the end of the world: "These Final Hours" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2268458/
It was excellent.

Comment is about even though it's all switched off, a constant hum (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

Intimate, humbling, and precious--I certainly can't say more.

Rachel

Comment is about My Son my sun (blog)

Original item by mentalelf. Philk.

I'm reading through the series just now, Hazel and getting hints of transcendental meditation, like watching your own body in motion. I hope you won't mind me saying, but the final episode feels like a terrible and frightening dream. Though, I'm almost sure that's not what you meant.

Rachel

Comment is about Walking Backwards and Getting There (3) (blog)

Original item by Hazel ettridge

David
I have read your comment - pinched myself - and re read it - and I am ----- welll I don't know what I am - very grateful will be a good start but it is not enough.
This blog has been very good to me and for me, the people that I have 'met' are quite unlike anyone that I have ever 'met' before.

Each poet has introduced me to a world that is very different from mine,
I have read poems that have blown me away and some that I have giggled over but all have made me think along different lines.

Thank you David and thank you WoL.

Comment is about Dorothy Webb's 'The Silent March of 2001' is Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Stuart Buck

The fiery images are stunning and beautiful in spite of the destruction they convey--I'm not quite sure as to how to explain what the connection might be, but I'm getting flashes of Donnie Darko.

Rachel

Comment is about even though it's all switched off, a constant hum (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

Been down there a couple of times Don. Don’t let them touch it! One of the most inspiring places I’ve ever been to. If anyone can piss the Government off a poet can. Go for it!!

Comment is about Australian Government. Tell Oil Companies GTFO Our Great Australian Bight (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Dear All, thank you for your comments. Hazel yours in particular caught my eye as most people don´t even know where the sea is.

Many thanks
Keith

Comment is about The Box Dwellers (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Don,

Well said. If the planet were left to the devices of the corporate world we would be in a perpetual desert. More governments should emulate the Australian decision.
Good poem. Topical.
Thanks
Keith

Comment is about Australian Government. Tell Oil Companies GTFO Our Great Australian Bight (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Go Keith! We all need an ocean if we're going to create some cresting waves.

Comment is about The Box Dwellers (blog)

Original item by keith jeffries

Stu, I wont be fucking - I'll be eating pie! However, point taken with a passion.

Comment is about even though it's all switched off, a constant hum (blog)

Original item by Stuart Buck

This poem had me painting pictures and hunting through old science books, turning to the great philosophers and returning to childhood. What a diverse offering - almost like a tree itself.

Comment is about TREES IN WINTER (blog)

Original item by Peter Taylor

I like this dk. Rhythm and rhyme. Last verse - no rhyme but rhythm - perfect finish

Comment is about Adobes (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Precious.

Comment is about My Son my sun (blog)

Original item by mentalelf. Philk.

Any comment that I make would be a clumsy intrusion

thank you for letting us read such an iintimate poem
Dorothy

Comment is about My Son my sun (blog)

Original item by mentalelf. Philk.

...or just not had the time to sit and stare...
A gentle enlightenment and lesson for us all.
Thank you, Peter.

Comment is about TREES IN WINTER (blog)

Original item by Peter Taylor

Awe,thanks

Comment is about Her Will (blog)

Original item by Melissa Wayner