steven arthur
Mon 1st Apr 2019 12:08
it's about time they begin recognizing the authors that make this site great. good job becky!
Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is 'Lie With Poetry' by Becky Who (article)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Interesting bio, Jason. Why would anyone look askance at someone else writing in rhyme! It boggles the mind.
I also choose my words very carefully, and I highly value my dictionary and thesaurus, often searching for the exact 'word', the nuance I want to 'cultivate'. IMO, poetry is deliberate.
I look forward to reading more of your work.
I do wonder how sarcasm is ever 'loving'.
What does the symbol imply? The jagged teeth one, like a fork?
Comment is about Jason Bayliss (poet profile)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
An all too familiar tale in certain parts of towns and cities where people are left to rot just like the places they live in.
nice one
Comment is about BACARDI TAIL LIGHTS MACHINE GUN FAREWELL (blog)
Original item by john short
Simply marvellous poetry. so good to see and hear you reading it.
Nice one Robert
Comment is about Playing Adults (blog)
Original item by Robert C Gaulke
I love the almost throw away matter of factness of this poem that works so well.
Wonderful
Comment is about Took Wind From Her Sails Posted 5:01am (blog)
Original item by Melissa Wayner
Beautiful symmetrical lines here Becky. I love the flow of this piece and just the overall content of your obvious love of the written word.
A well deserved POTW
Many congratulations
Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is 'Lie With Poetry' by Becky Who (article)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Wow! Excellent Becky! Congratulations! Very well deserved!?
Mae
Comment is about Lie with poetry (blog)
Original item by Becky Who
This is lovely. I like the rhythm and power. It's a gentle but powerful reminder that even the deepest, darkest emotions are not eternal.
Comment is about Fleeting Emotions (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
Mon 1st Apr 2019 04:24
got your good response to "Public Domain".
thank you M.C.
(you are the Wordsmith, not me!).
Comment is about M.C. Newberry (poet profile)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
steven arthur
Mon 1st Apr 2019 04:02
excellent work. one of the best I've had the pleasure of reading in a long time.
Comment is about Kintsugi (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
steven arthur
Mon 1st Apr 2019 04:01
inescapably beautiful. words don't do you justice friend.
Comment is about Letter to my daughter (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Like Rimbaud you take language to another level Stu. Will spend some time trying to digest this. Amazing.
Comment is about Amoebius (For National Poetry Day) (blog)
Original item by Stuart Buck
Hi Chloe
I don't know the background here but I can connect with the poem as I have Nigerian friends who left their home years ago and then things happen, family members die etc. and they never imagined when they left that they would never see them again. A very touching poem, well done. Only perhaps the second line needs reworking a bit (?).
Best wishes,
John S
Comment is about Endnote (blog)
Original item by Chloé
a superb set of memories rolled out in these lines. As has already been said it reminds me of my fathers tools . All of his screws and nails were carefully labelled in his own fair hand. Indeed many of his tools are still there for me to access when I visit my mother. In the garage his golf clubs are still there .
The attention to detail is wonderful here as summed up in the last stanza
Nice one Ray
Comment is about THE RECKONING (blog)
Original item by ray pool
<Deleted User> (17847)
Sun 31st Mar 2019 23:08
As always John, never failing to please the poetry-loving eyes.
LS
Comment is about Burnham Beeches with Anna, 1985 (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Well constructed and expressed Jon
Comment is about Fleeting Emotions (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
Thanks Martin. Memories are all we have - that is the tragedy of Alzheimer's. John
Comment is about After Life (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Thank you Vautaw and Don. A very difficult poem to write, so I am so glad that you liked it. John
Comment is about Letter to my daughter (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
<Deleted User> (21487)
Sun 31st Mar 2019 19:10
"I gild the countryside"
I can smell the freshness of new growth.
There are primroses in ' THE BIG WOOD' where I no longer walk, I miss them.
Dorothy
Comment is about THE PRIMROSE - a re-post for Spring (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
A trip not only to a dead man's shed and the material evidence of
a life and craft, but to the mundane act of disposal of property after
death - vivid and moving in equal measure.
Comment is about THE RECKONING (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Thanks Dorothy Mona and Lisa
Comment is about Fleeting Emotions (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
I am encouraged by the fact that with each generation comes awareness - just in time - and with each generation comes the
knowledge to overcome that which would destroy us and our
planet. As a species we alone seem to have the ability to recognise
and respond to the threats that exist within and outside our influence
and act to avert disaster. Whether that is part of some great pre-ordained plan is another matter but, in the meantime, we struggle
with generational "catch-up" on Planet Earth, managing still to stay
one step ahead of oblivion. So far!
Comment is about No Return (blog)
Original item by Rich
Powerful in its torrent of tidal misery. But it's always human nature
to make the best of bad things whilst accepting the reality of the worst - so graphically and impressively set out in this "anti" blog.
The following lines may serve as an example of my thinking:
You can keep yer steam boat racin'
But gimme the run in a gale
Of a well geared able clipper
What is driven by snow-white sail;
For I've known the thrill of a pilin' sea,
And the sky In a snow-flecked gown,
With fourteen knots in her windbag
When she's running her easting down.
Comment is about The Anti Shanty (blog)
Original item by mentalelf. Philk.
Some worthwhile words well expressed - to give us something
worth thinking about. Thanks. You should be ranked "Admirable of the Fleeting"!
Comment is about Fleeting Emotions (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
And someone never got their words-worth!
Comment is about Public Domain (blog)
Original item by d.knape
ray this is absolutely excellent. one of your finest works and one of the best things i have read on here in a long time
you wonderful man
Comment is about THE RECKONING (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Thanks very much Martin. I want to hear George Ezra singing it!
Comment is about Always Blue (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
thankyou leon stolgard x
Comment is about spiritual writing (blog)
Original item by Sarah Louise mcnee
departing ..detaching..seperating letting go
if it's temporary
goodbye seems unnecessary
Nothing is forever
when it rains we pray for brighter weather
when the sunshines we forget about the rain
until the skys are grey again
but some times the sky can't be blue enough and the sun isn't bright enough for the sky
and I thought I'd never laugh again when they told me to say goodbye
the last time I held your hand I wanted it to be forever
I thought I'd told you everything ..it was too late when I realised I never
The words "Goodbye" then and now... for me just don't seem right
so I kissed you on the head that day and said to you sleep tight
They took you away to another world to be free from hurt and pain
I never said goodbye to you 'cause I know we'll meet again .
Comment is about spiritual writing (blog)
Original item by Sarah Louise mcnee
You've started off a chain reaction
Some poems feeling sad
Why you ask would that be so?
They have no readings had ?
Comment is about Public Domain (blog)
Original item by d.knape
I think many on us at our age have been through the distressing process of disposing of our parents possessions. For boys in particular sifting through tools and other bits and bobs is particularly poignant. I still have many of my father's tools and garden implements. They are an everyday reminder of him, the patina (on some of them) spanning more than two generations.
This is wonderful work Ray and a source of inspiration too. Bravo!
Comment is about THE RECKONING (blog)
Original item by ray pool
steven arthur
Sun 31st Mar 2019 13:00
great repetition and piece jon
Comment is about Fleeting Emotions (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
steven arthur
Sun 31st Mar 2019 12:59
The whole poem is brilliant Tommy but the last few lines round it of nicely.
'I left the room and life that we had already both left'
Nice one mate
Comment is about Video Games (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
this has the feel of a folk song perhaps by Steeleye span which might be entitled 'ol' garden of England'
Either way it is a lovely piece of poetry
Nice one
Comment is about Always Blue (blog)
Original item by Adam Whitworth
So much strength and power in this Phil. A sort of brutality to counter the romance of the high seas. All very different from the yachting fraternity version. To add to all this is the smell of diesel I remember at least.
Ray
Comment is about The Anti Shanty (blog)
Original item by mentalelf. Philk.
I certainly catch your passion in this piece Phil.
Nice one
Comment is about The Anti Shanty (blog)
Original item by mentalelf. Philk.
I love it Robert, fabulous poem. It is great to see a live recording outside.
Nice one
Comment is about atthepoetryfactory (blog)
Original item by Robert C Gaulke
Memories such as these are always worth cherishing . I still have fond memories of my own children on such trips.
Nice one
Comment is about After Life (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
<Deleted User> (21487)
Mon 1st Apr 2019 14:00
- what next - Father Christmas - the Tooth Fairy - or maybe Unicorns?
Honest true and trusting mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Dorothy
Comment is about Virgin Australia Installs Onboard Gyms on all Flights (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews