Kate, I just found your comment, sorry . Pleased you like it!
Ray
Comment is about STANNAH STAIRLIFT (blog)
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Jon Anya and Kate very welcome likes, thanks!
Big Sal, The smell of the fields was pervasive. Over here we get lavender in pots and whack 'em in where they can thrive, but seeds sound interesting! Enjoy what you have.
Martin, Maybe a recording can help to convey a slant on a poem; I don't have a plan, though I think this had a tinge of Richard Burton, dare I say it. Only half cocked though. The Cotswolds this year brought a swathe of our oriental friends. I hope they were allowed in to York Minster.
Great to hear from you Stu. I'm glad you're watching and listening too!
A lovely picture you paint David, almost a poem in itself. We tend to keep the heads and make pot pouri which you stick your nose right in. Thanks too for your encouragement, one I take seriously.
Thanks for the warm comment Darren, appreciated.
Greetings all. Ray
Comment is about LAVENDER FIELDS FOREVER (blog)
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Keith and Megan, thanks for liking this!
Hannah, Beno, John Anya and Martin, glad you enjoyed the poem, thanks for commenting.
Thanks for the ideas David. That place was the closest I've ever got to a place of peace. Bloody freezing, though low humidity. I had days off on that tour and that was one. The last line was the icing on the cake.
Ray.
Comment is about IN NORWAY 1976 (blog)
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Thank you for your comments on The Dance Ray..?
Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)
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Thank you for your comments on The Dance John, it is wonderful to read the perspectives seen in our work, from another's view. Taylor
Comment is about John E Marks (poet profile)
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I guess you could equally have a plague of Grockles....?
Comment is about Grackles (blog)
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IMO, a really fine work, short and strong, savagely simple and full of so much 'scope' in so few lines. The 'chorus' is gut-wrenching.
WOW!
Comment is about Congo Childhood (blog)
Original item by eve nortley
Great little limerick.
I have a really hard time recognising 'pretension'. What if the poem simply isn't within my personal taste, or beyond my scope to understand? Now, I really don't like 'dumping' which may be the same idea - those writers who seem to think they are so brilliant that their writing requires no 'work'. Basically irritating. But, then, you get the odd writer who really IS so brilliant his/her writing requires no 'work'. Aw --- heck! I'm probably just plain jealous.
Comment is about POLICY (blog)
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Thank you, Sal! I appreciate you reading it!
Comment is about the first is [not] (blog)
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Hi Kate
Didn't occur to me when writing that it had universal application but that's good news. Thanks for liking.
Comment is about BOXES (blog)
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Some of your list of questions after my comment I have already covered on 6 August so that should suffice. Insults tend to go stale quite quickly unless they are very skilled. It is not obligatory to comment on poems but where an inspiration comes in I feel it is justified, which I did in your case. Perhaps you might feel the urge yourself someday. Other than that I am flummoxed - either I am not getting your humour or aliens have landed. (That's my humour).
Ray
Comment is about d.knape (poet profile)
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<Deleted User> (18980)
Wed 21st Nov 2018 17:08
Big Sal
Wed 21st Nov 2018 16:51
You won’t be surprised to know, MC, that they stole it from me.
https://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=18205
Comment is about UP THE ARSE (1) (blog)
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Wed 21st Nov 2018 16:23
Splendid Ray - and as ever superbly recited!
Cheers
DJB
Comment is about LAVENDER FIELDS FOREVER (blog)
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Thank you so much! I just joined this community, and I greatly appreciate your feedback!
Comment is about the first is [not] (blog)
Original item by ha'azinu
cheers david. this was the exemplar poem for an ekphrastic poetry competition held a couple of months ago. i've only just got the clearance to post it, hence the gap. i cant show the photo sadly, but it was very 'a field in england' and so i rewatched the film then wrote this while in its thrall. hope your well mate, i'm sure myself and this lovely site will wax and wane once more.
Comment is about shedding velvet in monochrome/a field in england (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
A coda to Owen and the conflict.
While it's generally mentioned that Owen's
reputation is based firmly on his "anti-war" poems, there are other lines that
indicate a conflict in his personality and his approach to the business of war -
plus the fact that despite persuasion from
his contemporary and mentor Siegfried Sassoon to the contrary, Owen insisted on returning to the fray (a rather odd decision,one might think), to be killed in action in the days leading up to the Armistice.
This action and less quoted lines by Owen, tend to suggest a more
complex frame of mind than that assumed as his primary attitude to the world-changing conflict about which he wrote
so graphically.
Comment is about Wilfred Owen and the Poetry of Trauma (article)
Original item by Mike Took
Spot on JC.
My memory is that they went in Loewe and I was a Lerner! Ouch!!
Comment is about UP THE ARSE (1) (blog)
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Reminds me of my small flat here in the centre of The Smoke - except that I'm
content with this womb with a view!?
(despite an uneasy association of the words
"womb" and "tomb"!).
Comment is about The Womb (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Wed 21st Nov 2018 14:31
flocks of Grackles
are called Plagues
a perfect name
for such a scourge,
what other name
could one give
to these hordes of
Pirate birds.
Comment is about Grackles (blog)
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Thanks Walkingman and Tommy on your likes on Walk on Blue
Comment is about Walk on Blue (blog)
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Wed 21st Nov 2018 12:19
I read it several times Tom and it's wonderful. One I will come back to, with lots of satisfying layers. I particularly love this line ... I drag the boat of all my thoughts
along a silver stretch of sand ...
Comment is about Souvenir (blog)
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Wed 21st Nov 2018 12:15
Keith, this is so clever. Enclosing and enveloping like a womb. I love your work.
Comment is about The Womb (blog)
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<Deleted User> (19913)
Wed 21st Nov 2018 12:13
Brilliant. For me, it's a clever portrayal of overpopulation - but like Rachel, I'm intrigued to know the story behind it. ?
Comment is about Human Jenga (blog)
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Wed 21st Nov 2018 12:09
Fantastic poem Meera, and a reminder of the futility of lament for things that can't be changed.
Comment is about The yellow umbrella (blog)
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Wed 21st Nov 2018 12:00
I love this. It reminds me of a game I played as a child, where we had to hop from furniture piece to furniture piece. The floor represented a shark infested ocean. Your writing is always so interesting.
Comment is about The Distant Sofa (blog)
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Wed 21st Nov 2018 11:56
Glad this one's out of the box John. Bad puns aside, I agree with John Coopey... It's a moment known to many captured sensitively.
Comment is about BOXES (blog)
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Wed 21st Nov 2018 11:16
Hi Ray, thanks for your comment and glad you liked it.
Comment is about BOXES (blog)
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Hi Stu, thanks for your comments. I will get round to buying your first book via the link. All these subscriptions and competitions etc. they start to burn a hole in one's pocket!
Comment is about BOXES (blog)
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lovely and dark rachel. just the way i like it.
reminds me of this song. hope you get the chance to listen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO5APfKnR50
Comment is about sexism (blog)
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written from the heart martin like so much of your work. im glad to see you still posting quality work after my extended absence.
Comment is about Ravaged (blog)
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very nice john. sepia tinged and dripping with nostalgia. well written and evocative.
Comment is about BOXES (blog)
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i dropped acid and am now afraid of the color orange
i feel ya buddy
hallucinogenic and nightmarish as ever. great, loose style of writing. you need a voice to pull off poetry as casual as this and you have it in spades.
Comment is about sean penn (11/19/2017) (blog)
Original item by Zach Dafoe
i like it tom. its slightly kafka-esque and has that special quality which i can only use blunt language to relate to. its a sort of nightmare under the skin/words quality.
i look forward to reading more of your work
Comment is about Souvenir (blog)
Original item by Tom
the shorter lines work well and make the piece feel claustrophobic which is what the womb must be like. i also get comfort from the piece, again keeping in line with the theme. good piece of writing keith.
Comment is about The Womb (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
how lovely ray and i agree with martin you have a lovely rolling tongue when it comes to delivery.
Comment is about LAVENDER FIELDS FOREVER (blog)
Original item by ray pool
like this john, especially the idea of the fragrant silence between the iron rule of the tsars and the dictator. very well written.
Comment is about Анна Ахматова (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
thanks john! sorry for the late reply, i havent been posting on here as much lately as my new book is out in the new year. im glad my work resonates with you on some level. i'd be over the moon if you decide to pick up my first collection. alternatively, my new collection, a chapbook, will be available early next year. if you have twitter, i can be found @stuartmbuck and am very active on the site. again, thanks ever so much. i just popped on to post a piece i wrote a while back actually and noticed you had commented, so again sorry for the delay in responding. i look forward to reading some of your work and getting back involved with the site now i have stopped tinkering with my chapbook!
Comment is about john short (poet profile)
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elPintor
Wed 21st Nov 2018 02:01
A tricky situation with a greater dilemma looming large?
I have lots of ideas swimming inside, but would love for you to expand upon your own thoughts...
Rachel
Comment is about Human Jenga (blog)
Original item by eve nortley
elPintor
Wed 21st Nov 2018 01:44
I've always liked the sound of your voice reading and, just tonight, found your (maybe) unknown muse...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNMnWTNCFSU
Listen to the beginning, and see if you agree...
PS
I just want to peek back in and say that I mean that comment in the best possible way--I mostly wanted to use the opportunity to say that I really like your readings.
Comment is about MyDystopiA (poet profile)
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Thankyou for your kind comments Keith, Brian and Ray. ?
Comment is about Listening to the Blues (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Big Sal
Tue 20th Nov 2018 22:57
Hi Linda!
Again, another one worth mentioning.?
Comment is about Half-Asleep (blog)
Original item by Linda Cosgriff
A beautiful poem completely worthy of POTW. Well done Alan. As most people have said be encouraged to try open mic's again.
Nice one
Comment is about ‘Glenbrittle - the loch’ by Alan Travis Braddock is our Poem of the Week (article)
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Maxine
Wed 21st Nov 2018 22:06
Great poem Louis! Taken from the point of view of someone doesn't appreciate or approve of a poet's creativity and looks down their nose at that poet and the subject.
Comment is about I am better than him (blog)
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