Don, stepping on toes and being misinterpreted is what it is all about. Keep on doing it. We need vibrant and challenging poetry not happy rhymers. Pen to paper Don.......sock it to them . Keith
Comment is about Why Do I Write? (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Thanks for sharing Jon. Laughter makes the world go round. And yes it is infectious.?
Comment is about Infectious laughter (blog)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
You never know how many people enjoy your work until you write a poem about a tree. Trees seem to 'bond minds' more than any other single 'symbol'. Well done. Glad I had a moment to pop into the site.
Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Pay Attention’ by Kate G (article)
Original item by Stuart Buck
I confess that my knowledge of Derek Hatton was restricted to what
was in the media - print, sound and vision. But he seemed too
extreme back then for a lad from the valleys: one Neil Kinnock.
The Liverpool lad didn't do himself too many favours perhaps by
looking somewhat worryingly like one of those well-heeled
personable villains who seemed to be much in evidence.
Anyway, fast-forward many years and he was back: then gone again! Life's a funny old game. Ditto politics.
Comment is about 'The trouble with Derek' (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
Thankyou Keith
My trouble is I stand up and say what I think. Sometimes I'm misinterpreted. Sometimes I step on toes. Sometimes I jump in too quick. Ah, but maybe that's a poet's life...?
Comment is about Why Do I Write? (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Don,
Poets write not only as a means of personal expression or for cathartic reasons, but to draw people´s attention the world about us and the problems which beset us. We can be the voice of dissent, of indignation, of prophecy and warning. We shall never know who reads what we write or the impact we may have but it is our personal contribution, an offering with good intent. Poets have been imprisoned, executed and exiled for their work. That surely is an indication of the power of the spoken and written word.
Your poem raises a familiar question. Keep writing as you are good at it.
Thank you
Keith
Comment is about Why Do I Write? (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (21487)
Fri 22nd Feb 2019 12:45
"with pleading hand, weakly, meekly outstretched"
What a good line.
"show me a 'Martyr,' I'll show you a fool,"
"The cracks of the ageing blemish the youth"
there is so much depth to this poem and it demands to be read over and over.
Comment is about Show Me A Saint (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Kate G you're making me blush! Thank you so much! ?To tell you the truth I do see myself as an observer of life...
Comment is about Wrongdoer (blog)
Original item by Mae Foreman
Yes please do show us that man! Excellent! To quote a friend's words "I do love your poetry!" One of my favorites ?
Thank you?
Mae
Comment is about Show Me A Saint (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Thanks Jon for all the support! You liked most of my favorite poems many of which as you might have noticed nobody else liked! It so appears that you get me! Your poetry is masterful and profound! Thank you?
Mae
Comment is about Jon Stainsby (poet profile)
Original item by Jon Stainsby
<Deleted User> (19913)
Fri 22nd Feb 2019 11:13
Mae, this is profound. A good poet observes and captures experiences that many feel but can't articulate. I'm genuinely excited at your talent. Wonderful.
Comment is about Wrongdoer (blog)
Original item by Mae Foreman
Hey Jason! Thank you for all the support! I'm glad you like my reciting and writing and I'm so greatfulI for the encouragement! Your poetry is excellent!?
Thank you
Mae
Comment is about Jason Bayliss (poet profile)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Ok, well as far as I'm concerned, I was right. You have a beautiful voice for reading and for me, that was all the better for hearing you read it Mae. Brilliant. So glad I've got you as one of my favourites.
J. x
Comment is about Wrongdoer (blog)
Original item by Mae Foreman
Thank you Jason! Reciting is starting to grow on me! Maybe there will be sound too! Tune in, I'd like your feedback! ?
Thank you
Mae
Comment is about Keep it Close (blog)
Original item by Mae Foreman
Yeah, really love this Mae, powerful words and I love the way the pitch and rhythm kind of switch back on each other, and from something I imagine as quite quickly and clearly spoken in the middle it comes to a soft spoken, quite intimate end. Very clever how you can convey that image without, actual sound. Brilliant ?
J.x
Comment is about Keep it Close (blog)
Original item by Mae Foreman
Hi Mae, nice poem. I do love your writing. X
J.
Comment is about Resist (blog)
Original item by Mae Foreman
We never quite know what to expect at Write Out Loud Woking at the Lightbox these days – and that’s how it should be. We had three new performers, two of them (Chris Ross and Eleanor Hobby) reading for the first time anywhere. The other, Richard Alleyne, a familiar poetry face but a debutant at Woking, delivered a moving and passionate poem about London stabbings. Heather Moulson, part of the Teddington-Woking-Guildford local open mic poetry axis, unveiled her debut collection, Bunty, I miss You!, to immediate acclaim. And Donall Dempsey, MC at the 1,000 Monkeys in Guildford, wound up the evening in spectacular style, rending open his shirt, and then embracing his wife Janice while she was still attempting to record his performance! We also warmly welcomed back Geoffrey and Lorri Pimlott, home again from the heat of Thailand and acclimatising to an English February, and an equally nippy Lightbox. Many thanks also to Pete Jardine, Karen Izod, Karen Swaley, Carla Scarano, Andy BJ Low, Janet Collinson, Eddie Chauncy, and Ray Pool, making a total of 16 readers on the night, plus compere Greg Freeman.
Eddie Chauncy is featured poet at Poetry Performance at the Adelaide pub in Teddington, on Sunday 3 March. The 1,000 Monkeys open mic at The Keep pub in Guildford is on Monday 4 March, with more open mic poetry at the Cranleigh arts festival on Tuesday 5 March, a night that also features Janice and Donall Dempsey, Heather Moulson and Ray Pool. Meanwhile next month’s Write Out Loud at the Lightbox is on Thursday 21 March, with guest poet David Cooke. Plenty more poetry to look forward to!
Review is about Write Out Loud Woking on 21 Feb 2019 (event)
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Comment is about Ghosts and Gods (blog)
Original item by Kealan Coady
<Deleted User> (21487)
Fri 22nd Feb 2019 08:29
Chilling and bleak. Food for thought.
Thank you
Comment is about Ghosts and Gods (blog)
Original item by Kealan Coady
This gave me chills. Giving thought to things like this can take someone down an interesting road.
Comment is about Ghosts and Gods (blog)
Original item by Kealan Coady
I love your use of space to help get across your meaning.
Comment is about Me vs. Me (blog)
Original item by Paris Tate
I'm with you on this Frances, wear your unique beauty proudly, and the world is all the more beautiful for it. Love your sample.
J.
Comment is about erbc (poet profile)
Original item by erbc
Stark, beautiful, rhythmic. Love it.
Comment is about The Plague Doctor (blog)
Original item by Heart of Lead
Never fear the mirror, never fear your reflection or your shadow. I have shared these thoughts but a long time ago. I know now that my shadow is as much a part of me as my reflection and I'm the master of both, but it took some finding. Brilliant piece!
J.
Comment is about Rusting Self-Image (blog)
Original item by Heart of Lead
Very interesting John. I think Hughes took a fundamentally anti-elitist point of view in many poems. He wasn't afraid of getting down to ground level nor (metaphorically and literally) getting his hands dirty. So I don't know what he'd make of literary theory.Hughes was very much the poet of the continuous present as in the masterly 'Coming down through Sometset':
I want him
To stop time. His strength staying, bulky,
Blocking time. His rankness, his bristling wildness,
His thrillingly painted face.
A badger on my moment of life.
Not years ago, like the others, but now.
Thank you again for an interesting piece.
John
Comment is about Ted Hughes, eco-criticism and the common reader (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
And again, I do this. Mind you, I'm not scared of my answers, (well, not all the time).
Comment is about The Other Voice (blog)
Original item by Heart of Lead
And another one goes on my favourite list. I love your style, the use of words, the rhythm absolutely mesmerising. Thank you.
J.
Comment is about Heart of Lead (poet profile)
Original item by Heart of Lead
"Predictive text?", "Yes autocorrect?"
Jason didn't use LOL
Instead he used PMSL
We shoulda changed to PLIMSOL
(We're slipping PT, shit AC.....) ?
Comment is about Autocorrect and predictive text ruined my chance of romance and sex (blog)
Original item by John McDonough
This really hit me hard in a way hard to describe. So often our perceptions are twisted by what we think others will think. In such ways we are bound to an image we created for ourselves. Thank you for this.
Comment is about Strong And Silent (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
The shadow and the reflection are both aspects of ourselves. We worry when they take a life of their own. Wonderful work.
Comment is about I Cast A Shadow (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Thank you Jason, I appreciate your words and I am glad you found similar meaning. Coexisting within can be as hard to describe as it is to live.
Comment is about Ruby (blog)
Original item by Heart of Lead
Anyone taking the road from Brixham to the lower ferry at Kingswear
can find the turning that leads to Higher Brownstone where a lone
tree marks the start of the metalled track that leads down to the
remains of the old WW2 coastal defences beside the River Dart
estuary. My late eldest sister knew them during her youthful wartime
service in those dangerous days. She lost a wartime love - missing
in action over the Channel - and later moved Stateside and married
a survivor of the D-Day invasion - wounded and shipped back to
the UK to recuperate before going back home to Louisiana., with
my sister following on to spend the rest of her life there.
Comment is about DOWN BY THE MEWSTONE - folk song (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Thu 21st Feb 2019 20:58
enchiladas are a Mexican food.
tortillas covered with meat, cheese, and chile.
The best are Tex-Mex.
Order some today on Amazon!
do not die before you've had some.
?
wink.
Comment is about Jennifer Malden (poet profile)
Original item by Jennifer Malden
The title caught my eye straight Away.
You never fail my friend, this is a brilliant piece x
Comment is about Yin & Yang (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Bloody hell Narcissus is alive and well. Oh how our mirror-obsessed society needs to see this poetic message, but I doubt it would register unless written in modern hieroglyphics! ❤
Comment is about Mirror Mirror (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
An enjoyable romp amongst the bovine and divine. Excellent rhyme all round David.
Ray
Comment is about An Aussie Farmer's Lot. (blog)
Original item by David Gabriel Caplan
Hilarious. Loved it. Thanks, Keith
Comment is about The Spark ! (blog)
Original item by David Gabriel Caplan
And so you should go on that date,
Balls to the past, the future can't wait x
Love it.
J. x
Comment is about Dating (blog)
Original item by Lysa d
Dave C. Good question. But too many of today's occupants of these
islands put our history aside in favour of their own personal interests
so I think not. But history will tell future generations what was done -
and why.
Comment is about KISS OFF (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Just remember - being funny is a serious business! ?
Comment is about Fun or Serious? I Can't Decide? (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Refreshing and so topical for this "blip" electronic age we endure.
The consistent wit in the wordplay is hugely enjoyable. THIS should be a poem of the week!
Comment is about Autocorrect and predictive text ruined my chance of romance and sex (blog)
Original item by John McDonough
Thanks Frances, much appreciated - glad you like the poem!
Comment is about Face Time (blog)
Original item by Rich
This kind of tirade poetry always has a strong impact on the reader. It is convincing in its intensity. It is well written and well constructed. All the best for Derek. I enjoyed this poem
Thank you
Keith
Comment is about 'The trouble with Derek' (blog)
Original item by Tommy Carroll
A lovely poem Keith.
I have an autistic nephew who started at university last year.
He is one of the gentlest, kindest people I know, but he rarely speaks unless spoken to !
Comment is about José Tomas (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Tom
Fri 22nd Feb 2019 18:14
Congratulations Kate, very deserving choice for POtW. Really enjoyed this and feel inspired to see what other tree verses are lurking around. Tom ?
Comment is about The Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Pay Attention’ by Kate G (article)
Original item by Stuart Buck