A very gutsy poem Vautaw. I empathise. Sincerely. Yes, annointed is just the right word. We all need to be forgiven for our trespasses. Don't be too hard on yourself. John.
Comment is about Daughter (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
<Deleted User> (21818)
Fri 17th May 2019 21:57
Rhyme & great reason. Excellent...loved this!
Comment is about An Amazonian Proverb (blog)
Original item by afishamongmany
<Deleted User> (21818)
Fri 17th May 2019 21:54
An exceptional poem...Bravo Keith. Game over...yell it out loud for all to hear!
Comment is about Time for Change (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
<Deleted User> (21818)
Fri 17th May 2019 21:49
This poem just rolls off the tongue. Very well crafted with rhythm and rhyme.
Comment is about Pride (blog)
Original item by Lisa C Bassignani
Thanks for your beautiful comments Dorothy and Jane. I have learned the healing art of faith, forgiveness and flow which get me through the trials of life. I honestly don’t think I could do it if I didn’t write to process intense emotions.
Comment is about Daughter (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
<Deleted User> (21818)
Fri 17th May 2019 21:46
Exquisite Jon, I really loved reading this one. Bravo!
Comment is about Through Van Gogh's eyes (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
<Deleted User> (21818)
Fri 17th May 2019 21:43
I empathize with you Don. So many times I want to write something but sticking to rhyme doesn't allow me to express what I want and so I venture towards non-rhyming poems. I think you did a beautiful job expressing a very sad sentiment. Bravo!
Comment is about Orangutan (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (21818)
Fri 17th May 2019 21:38
Mothers, daughters, fathers, sons-we are all just people and sad but true, all people make mistakes often hurting those we love most. A beautiful poem, heartfelt and filled with great emotion.? Writing does help the healing process.
Comment is about Daughter (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
<Deleted User> (21818)
Fri 17th May 2019 21:32
Good poem, good subject! Guilt...a soul's worst enemy.
Comment is about To Forgive Oneself (blog)
Original item by Mae Foreman
<Deleted User> (21818)
Fri 17th May 2019 21:29
I agree with Don, in so few words you've said a lot. Bravo!
Comment is about Maturity (blog)
Original item by Mae Foreman
<Deleted User> (21487)
Fri 17th May 2019 20:43
This is so sad, - i am sure the zoo-keepers do their best - but the fact remains that she is a bereaved mother in a foreign country - and she had her photo taken.
It is sad to read and sad to think about - i only hope she was given the privacy to grieve. At least she wasn't used to sell a newspaper.
Dorothy
Comment is about Orangutan (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (21487)
Fri 17th May 2019 20:30
Having read 'Mother' - and now 'Daughter' I feel such sadness for you. Life can be so cruel and your uphill battle must be exhausting.
I am sure that writing helps but not enough to blur out your past pain.
i hope that one day you will find your peace.
Dorothy
Comment is about Daughter (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
<Deleted User> (21487)
Fri 17th May 2019 20:19
"fledging-like, perched on the bough of my arm"
Exquisite, intimate, a perfect moment frozen in time. I am so glad that you allowed us a glimpse.
Thank you
Dorothy
Comment is about IMOGEN - 10 months old (blog)
Original item by trevor homer
Hi Cynthia! That sounds yummy! Actualluy when i said I liked to eat ice cream all year long I ment all year long during all FOUR years of my little affair with Mr. C ! I'd say be careful with the weight but in all honesty Cynthia those ice-creams got me out of bed into my clothes and out of the house so screw it. Do what makes you happy! When you finally make it to the finish line that's when you'll start building your life all over. If you have an extra pound or two, the hell with it, you'll lose them in no time and if not then there will be just more of you to love! No big deal!
If you are referring to my the one that says: "Art is the imaginary solution to a problem that is unsolvable in real life." then yes it is originally mine. It is what I discovered when I first started writing. I have many a short story written that have a matching cross to be born! I remember the first one, I wrote it in the middle of a sleepless night. I fell asleep as soon as I finished the last word!
Thanks for stopping by on my profile! Be strong! Get well! ?
Mae
P.S. Your Bio is astounding! How is it possible for one person to do ALL that??? Really, tell me your secret!
Comment is about Cynthia Buell Thomas (poet profile)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
If I'd written this I would be immensely proud. To have orchestrated such a list of similes is an achievement and is not done I am sure to impress but has the strain of a genuine inspiration at work. Every line effortlessly works and I have to say you never disappointment Trevor. I am quite bereft of inspiration at the moment so I enjoy seeing the real deal.
Ray
Comment is about THE HOLY CHURCH OF NATURE (blog)
Original item by trevor homer
A lovely shared experience that takes us straight back to the yearning for life of the very young , still memorable to me (trying to reach taps etc). There is magic here and comes to a head in the lines " I fear to move" and ending in "the bough of my arm." Perfectly delightful and so well observed Trevor.
Ray
Comment is about IMOGEN - 10 months old (blog)
Original item by trevor homer
Beautiful Jason! As far as I'm concerned this is the kind of poem that says it all, the kind of poem that you wanna read again and again and memorize the lines and quote them for years to come!
Thank you ?
Mae
Comment is about A Thousand Miles (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
<Deleted User> (5011)
Fri 17th May 2019 17:31
John, thank you for this marvellous - nay, magnificent - reminder of Gaia's quiet brilliance.
I want to support your thesis, that Gaia is an underreported gem of a poet. On this evidence, her flower should no longer "remain to blush unseen", as Gray put it.
For me, the judge of what makes a superb poem or line, as opposed to a good one, is the physical effect on me, the hair on the nape of the neck test, that frisson of which there is an abundance here.
And when that thesis is as well penned as this, it has similar effects. Wonderful writing about wonderful writing. Thank you.
Comment is about My kind of poetry: Gaia Holmes (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Mae, I was really interested in your desire/need for 'ice cream' for a whole year!
Right now, I love raisins, salted peanuts and chocolate pieces, all in one mouthful! It's the salt that binds it all together. I could just purr! I have to be 'sensible' or I'll put on weight! I gain weight FAST! (But not too sensible, in honesty.)
Thanks for responding. Your photos are lovely. Is that your original 'quote' at the end of your bio?
Comment is about Mae Foreman (poet profile)
Original item by Mae Foreman
Outside looking in
Stranger no longer
friendship burns within.
Comment is about BlueGirlPoetry (poet profile)
Original item by BlueGirlPoetry
Keith, cows can be aggressive, no two ways about it. A small herd gave my husband a good scare some years back. At a holiday home, walking from the farmhouse to the road, passing through their pasture. An odd situation for a 'guest house'! Maybe they sensed that he was nervous. I remember laughing, but, really, they did not look amused.
And I was sorry I had laughed. I do recall saying, 'Don't run!' But we picked up our pace substantially. Safely. Bad-tempered cows were new to me! They are HUGE animals.
Comment is about Bossy Boots! (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Stop it, Brian. I’ve got a bad chest. You’re making me cough!
Comment is about MILLENNIAL BURNOUT (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
<Deleted User> (6895)
Fri 17th May 2019 15:04
<Deleted User> (18980)
Fri 17th May 2019 15:00
You swine John...leave poor old Rhian alone...she's got enough on her plate (due to stress related eating disorder).
Comment is about MILLENNIAL BURNOUT (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thank you Dorothy. I appreciate your feedback. I came back a couple times to delete this poem, but I believe the poems you want to delete are the ones the world needs to read. My hope is that no one can relate, but my fear is that many do. For me, poetry is a way to acknowledge the pain, let it go, and move on.
Comment is about Mother (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
<Deleted User> (6895)
Fri 17th May 2019 13:44
Many thanks Lisa for liking my poem 'Rudderless'
Patricia. x
Comment is about Lisa C Bassignani (poet profile)
Original item by Lisa C Bassignani
Can a writer comment on their own work?
To be classified as a poem in the proper sense it should have rhythm.
I'm not sure I have succeeded here.
It does however pack emotion into a few lines, to me, the sign of a good poem.
The last two lines pleased me. An unexpected, but thoughtful decision by the paper to withhold what really happened 'behind the scenes'. As mentioned this is a true story.
Comment is about Orangutan (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Yes a fabulous lady who brought much cheer in the good times and the bad, thanks for the comments ?
Comment is about Set ‘em up Joe (tribute to Doris Day) (blog)
Original item by Rick Varden
<Deleted User> (21487)
Fri 17th May 2019 07:35
Vautaw
This is such a sad poem, your gentle nature shines through and you are an example to all of us,
Dorothy
Comment is about Mother (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
<Deleted User> (18980)
Fri 17th May 2019 07:24
Beautiful interplay of words.. Really liked it..
Comment is about Through Van Gogh's eyes (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
Fri 17th May 2019 02:40
i hate to tell you this but
Ditz is completely imaginary
i don't really have a dog
it was just the rhyming
and the sound
that made this poem fun.
Comment is about Don Matthews (poet profile)
Original item by Don Matthews
Dk I do think
Dorothy's got a point
Ditz dog is out
For you to taunt
Laughing his head off
(Assume it's a he)
Having great games
With you kd
He's smarter'n you think
Got you twisted round
His little doggie paw
Where he wants you bound
Dk I could go on
But as Keith/Dorothy say
We are dog's slaves
And not the other way round....?
Comment is about Ditz, The Dog (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Hi Fred. Just coming on to say that Doris's style was so free and easy and with that happy tone that made us all feel good. A little like Alma Cogan who had a "laugh" in her voice.
Ray
Comment is about Set ‘em up Joe (tribute to Doris Day) (blog)
Original item by Rick Varden
Keith,
This almost invites a poem of your own. Called 'Shit!' ??
Comment is about Bossy Boots! (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
In just four lines this is so good Mae.
Comment is about Maturity (blog)
Original item by Mae Foreman
This made me think of pooh sticks. There is a place in Sussex where there is a bridge called pooh bridge. This is what A.A Milne based the game of pooh sticks on from his Winne the pooh stories. I used to take my kids there when they were small and we lived in that part of the world. Sorry I am rambling
But an enchanting poem Cynthia.
Comment is about STICKS (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
I can imagine this happening Cynthia. I have stepped in said pats myself many years ago believing much the same, Good to see you posting hope you are well. Look forward to bumping into you again soon
Martin
Comment is about Bossy Boots! (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
<Deleted User> (21487)
Thu 16th May 2019 20:45
Jon
Your thoughtful poem is beautiful.
I wish we had a 'like very much' button, I would press it several times.
Dorothy
Comment is about Through Van Gogh's eyes (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
<Deleted User> (21487)
Thu 16th May 2019 20:40
I love dogs and I think this poem is fun -
He is probably very clever and uses displacement behaviour to manipulate you, there is no way of finding out, the effect is the same.
as in the nursery rhyme 'the little dog laughed to see ------"
Dorothy
Comment is about Ditz, The Dog (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Cynthia,
how amusing except for your job of cleaning up the mess. Recently my partner and I were walking our dogs in a nearby field when we encountered a herd of those who produce this substance. They began to follow us with looks of determination. We broke into a trot and then a canter as the cows also increased their pace. The dogs became alarmed and fortuitously we arrived at a stile where there was an unseemingly clambering to escape the bovine menace. Fortunately we encountered none of their substance but were propelled home to produce some of our own.
Thanks
Keith
Comment is about Bossy Boots! (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Associative thinking - after the comments on 'STICKS'.
Comment is about Bossy Boots! (blog)
Original item by Cynthia Buell Thomas
Thu 16th May 2019 18:56
A Ditz is basically
a stupid person,
a scatterbrain.
In this case
it applies to a Dog!
Comment is about keith jeffries (poet profile)
Original item by keith jeffries
Jon Stainsby
Fri 17th May 2019 22:12
Thank you, Jane ?
Comment is about Through Van Gogh's eyes (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby