Speak up D.! Excellent ?
Thank you
Mae

Comment is about Rumors Of My Demise (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Thanks to David Rachel Nigel Desmond, Anya and Heart of Lead for likes.
Thanks also to Jon Frances and M.C. for you encouraging comments

Frances I sometimes think I may have enough retrospective poetry to fill a small book, but I am always worried about becoming too much of an old fart.


M.C. I am glad you picked up the 'all front and trousers 'comment I was a bit concerned that people would not understand it up on it.


this was one of these poems I nearly rejected. Glad I didn't now


Thanks again to everyone
love and blessings


Martin

Comment is about city of birth (blog)

Original item by Martin Elder

I will try to catch up with some of your work. Thanks for the 'like' on The Joke.

Comment is about LeGou (poet profile)

Original item by LeGou

A melancholy poem yet written from the heart. I enjoyed this. Please continue to write.
Keith

Comment is about Lamentations of osunkunle (blog)

Original item by Monseigneur Fifehanmi

Whenever this scene crosses my mind my whole self just smiles from deep inside. I thought someone else might enjoy it too. Just for fun.

Comment is about The Joke (blog)

Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas

2008 (I think) The collapse of the Lehman Bross.Bank in America out of sheer greed.

The ripples spread world wide,

Comment is about Would They? (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Beautifully written Erin, I love the concept of the, "Witchy woman," in you, for me, I always think of it as a mischievous little demon sitting on my shoulder saying, "Oh go on, you know you want to." But much like you, the responsibilities of parenthood mean that these days the angel on the other shoulder usually wins?.

Usually.

J.

Comment is about Bring Back the Pin Up (blog)

Original item by Erin N. Buckley

Hi Ray, this is truly beautiful. I hope I'm remembered with such vivid tenderness.
K

Comment is about THE DISTANCE OF AGE (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Magnificent and complex. There is comfort in a carousel. One I'll come back to for sure. Thanks for sharing Peter.

Comment is about CAROUSELS (blog)

Original item by Peter Taylor

So true. Organic materials have an authenticity and beauty that can't be mimicked.

Comment is about Stone (blog)

Original item by Rich

I like the flow of this. A gentle, feminine rap. Much better than all that male growling. John

Comment is about Bring Back the Pin Up (blog)

Original item by Erin N. Buckley

We do a lot of this on WOL don't we? Demonising sections of society without offering any specific evidence. Still, it's good sport isn't it?

Comment is about Would They? (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

I haven't read much yet either of your stuff. Leave me a comment when you check out more of my work and tell your followers about me. I will read more after I finish some of my other poetry things I am in the middle of. Thank you for the support and kind words.

Comment is about Jason Bayliss (poet profile)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

All the worst aspects of humanity wrapped up in one profession.

Comment is about Would They? (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Your take, as good as mine.
the poem says only Time heals all.
Your experience may be something different.
write a poem about it. ?

Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)

Original item by Don Matthews

Just hiding behind their honest, sincere faces, doing their job gathering in money - my money - your money - his money - her money - anyone and everyones money.

I bet they eat well.

Comment is about Would They? (blog)

Original item by Don Matthews

Rich I love this
I love the deep 'mystery' of it - and you have put it so well.

Dorothy

Comment is about Stone (blog)

Original item by Rich

Your sample poem 'perfection' raises an interesting problem being faced in our schools causing stress and mental health problems. Students feel they have to be 'perfect'. They are being introduced to 'fails of the famous' who they have heard of and relate to. You learn only by successive failures. And you don't have to get 100% in a test. 97% is OK.

Comment is about Lisa C Bassignani (poet profile)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

Oh I do like this Lisa

Comment is about Words (blog)

Original item by Lisa C Bassignani

Simple but all the more effective for it. And in a tight structure too.
I think it was Ronald Reagan who said something to the effect that we are all as equally brave. It’s just that some stay braver for longer.

Comment is about HERO AND COWARD (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

A really warm, wholesome and utterly human piece of writing which reaches the skies, where it belongs. Thanks so much.
Peter T

Comment is about Trevor Homer's 'When in Some Distant Time (For Imogen)’ is Poem of the Week (article)

Original item by Stuart Buck

I enjoyed this being a thelemite myself, I'm surprised theres no mention of Crowley in it. A beautifully written piece.

93 93/93

Comment is about Thelema (blog)

Original item by John E Marks

Hi, thank you for reading The Matriarch. Like your new profile pic..Taylor..?

Comment is about Mikey V Kinsey (poet profile)

Original item by Mikey V Kinsey

Thank you all so much! I truly appreciate your kind words.

Comment is about His Eyes (blog)

Original item by Heart of Lead

Dark, broody with a hint of menace. Well done.

Comment is about His Eyes (blog)

Original item by Heart of Lead

I enjoy that other offering, MC, "If you don't know I'm not telling".

Comment is about INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S WEEK (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Hi Erin, great sample, favourite line of many for me, "I wear your beat on my sleeve," love that. Look forward to reading more, but not right now because it's 12.35 am here.

J.

Comment is about Erin N. Buckley (poet profile)

Original item by Erin N. Buckley

One sentence divides the genders
(I brave the boo and hiss!)
Those wondering words so often heard
"Does my bum look big in this?" ?

Comment is about INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S WEEK (blog)

Original item by John Coopey

Thanks Don and Kate, and of course thank you, "Heart."
(I still hate it though ?. Feel like writing something really flouncy and romantic now just to get that robotic voice out of my head.?)

Comment is about Poetic Dissection (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

It hardly defies logic that circumstance can play a huge part in applying the words "hero" and "coward" - especially taking into
account human nature and self-preservation. Someone who loses
patience/temper (control?) in a situation might indulge in out-of-
character behaviour which might be
applauded or condemned.
One who in war unordered goes headlong to charge an enemy
might be driven by motives and forces beyond their usual restraint
but be viewed as a "hero" and even given a medal. On another
day, reticence and a cooler head might see something considered
to be "cowardice" by others. A soul who passes by a street fight
one day might intervene on another day. These can be the "flick of the coin".

Comment is about HERO AND COWARD (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

Powerful and truthful. Righteous bitterness laces your words. Broken hearts hurt at any age and time.

Comment is about Stupid Cupid (blog)

Original item by Vautaw

I think that some people do not realise that so much can be said with the eyes if people care to look and you have captured just that within this poem. Love it

Comment is about His Eyes (blog)

Original item by Heart of Lead

Love your sample poem. If this is the intro, I want the whole book! ?

Comment is about Heart of Lead (poet profile)

Original item by Heart of Lead

“The drug for your soul to sing.” That’s how I feel about spring too! Reading this poem makes me happy, reminds me that spring is not far away! ☀️

Comment is about Spring (blog)

Original item by Larisa Rzhepishevska

“Your name carved into my skin like hope.” Love that line! Beautiful, intimate poem. Thanks for sharing. ?

Comment is about Hilton Garden Inn (blog)

Original item by Erin N. Buckley

Love this lyric Damon! ❤️

Comment is about Firefly (blog)

Original item by Mikey V Kinsey

The way you've made the lines into columns gives this a feel of a role call Phil for me. Packs a punch - I think It would be an education to bring characters like this back to the streets and see how they fare and how we would fare with them now.
There is a sense that they inhabit a murky half world.

Ray

Comment is about Grandad 1930 (blog)

Original item by mentalelf. Philk.

Clever. I love an experiment whatever the outcome.

Comment is about Poetic Dissection (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

I like the poem but question time ever completely taking away the wounds and scars. It's like the saying 'damage done never forgotten'

Comment is about Wounded Heart (blog)

Original item by d.knape

Thanks for all your readers and likers, Graham, Des, Anya, Kate, Heart of Lead and Dorothy.

Especially welcomed Kate, cheered me up no end!



Ray

Comment is about SKID ROW (blog)

Original item by ray pool

Jason did set,
Me, his pet robot
A task to write poem
And this what you got

Alas you poor humans
Understand us machines
You gotta work with us
You gotta sound keen

We do have a brain
Bit clunkety clunk
Don't go with the flow?
You gonna be sunk ?

(Like is for pet robot...)

Comment is about Poetic Dissection (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Ha ha, I liked it before I read the comments. Reminds me of a poem I once tried to write with everything rhyming with the same word. You are right about the equation feel. And as Newberry said, very Sherlock Holmes...

Comment is about Poetic Dissection (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Thanks all for your comments. I'm genuinely glad no-one's liked it.
You might be right M.C. but I still hate it.
And yes Candice that's what I thought except I was thinking more HAL from 2001 a space Odyssey, you know, sinister and detached.
And also yes Dorothy, always write with the heart as far as I'm concerned ?.

J.

Comment is about Poetic Dissection (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss

Thank you so much, Mae! Yes it's an extraordinary poem and the rhyming pattern I tend to follow the most. I actually have that quote tattooed on my shoulder, I kid you not.

Comment is about Heart of Lead (poet profile)

Original item by Heart of Lead

Terrifying and so true?
Still to this day I haven't been able to say the things that so easily pour out of your pen.
Thank you for voicing them and so beautifully at that.
Mae

Comment is about The Other Voice (blog)

Original item by Heart of Lead

It's nice to know that "we" over here are not alone!?
Thank you
Mae

Comment is about Ruby (blog)

Original item by Heart of Lead

Beautiful! ?
Thank you for that lovely piece
Mae

Comment is about His Eyes (blog)

Original item by Heart of Lead

Hey Heart of Lead! I saw your buo. It so happens that If is one of my most favorite poems especially that line a d that verse!
Love your sample?
Thank you
Mae

Comment is about Heart of Lead (poet profile)

Original item by Heart of Lead

I'm not so sure about the closeness of the two types, but I enjoyed your poem anyway Mark.

Comment is about HERO AND COWARD (blog)

Original item by M.C. Newberry

HMMMM ? It's a bit of a struggle I think hearts win every time.

Comment is about Poetic Dissection (blog)

Original item by Jason Bayliss