No please my mind I beg you
Don't listen to Dorothy's play
You can do better than budgies
There are far better ways ?
Comment is about Where? With Whom? With What? (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Thank you Jason. "You are no-one's second best." This made me cry, but in a good way for the first time in a long time. You build such comfort and encouragment into your poetry and truly I treasure that. And as Mae says, to count you as a friend is truly to be lucky.
Comment is about As You Walk The Road (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Thank you, every last one of you for your kind words. Means more than you know to be able to hear that. As life goes, we carry on, but it's good not to be alone. Thank you so much.
Comment is about Not Much Left to Lose Now (blog)
Original item by Heart of Lead
<Deleted User> (21487)
Fri 22nd Mar 2019 11:04
"accept that as we walk many paths will cross"
"You are no-ones second best"
I love those lines - your friend should take comfort and be encouraged by them.
I hope that he will be able to
" Share the words at the core of your soul, without fear"
Well written and well spoken Jason.
Dorothy
Comment is about As You Walk The Road (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
I love it John and not just for the first line, it's exquisit poetry everything that comes out of your pen. That needed to be said ?
Comment is about L'Afrique (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
"That which can only be gifted, never taken,
That which you must give first in order to receive,
That which requires the unshaking will of the shaken,
To embrace grace and finally believe."
Sometimes forgiving ourselves is harder than being forgiven by others...
And that's why we need to redeem ourselves, otherwise apologizing would be just fine!
"Your grip on the burdens of your own bitter load,
And there, honest and naked, seek redemptive peace."
Wonderful Jason! Loved it! ?
Mae
Comment is about Redemption (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Beautiful Jason! Sincere and moving and perfectly phrased, shaped and laid out, as always! Loved it! ?
Anyone who has you as a firend is lucky!
Mae
Comment is about As You Walk The Road (blog)
Original item by Jason Bayliss
Hello Fernwood! It's an old poem but you might like it. It used to appear in anthologies, thanks for reminding me of it.
See:-
https://ratiocinativa.wordpress.com/2013/03/01/the-diplomatic-platypus-patrick-barrington/
PS Platypusses come from Tasmania.
Comment is about Why I Want to Own a Platypus (blog)
Original item by Fernwood Press
<Deleted User> (21487)
Fri 22nd Mar 2019 07:41
"Where? With whom? With what? "
be very careful - i can remember seeing a play about a man who 'returned' as his widow's caged pet budgie.
mmmm needs thinking about.
Dorothy
Comment is about Where? With Whom? With What? (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
No need to apologise, Graham!
The rule of 'one post a day' is necessary on a shared site and you will find, most common on community writing sites. Most contributors accept and understand the rule.
And Andy N, you make a good point about comments too.
It seems to me, Don, you need your own blog site so (as I've mentioned before to others) you could share more and publish some chapbooks with a link to purchase.
?
Comment is about WOL's Blogslide Causing Problems (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
The heartfelt pain is drawing me to read this over, I feel the cathartic need you have achieved.... I hope.
Comment is about Not Much Left to Lose Now (blog)
Original item by Heart of Lead
A fair assessment of the bile we are trapped in. Tinged with love and care.
Comment is about City of the Bee: 22 May 2017, 9:31 pm (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Fri 22nd Mar 2019 01:31
thanks Hazel.
come back soon.
Comment is about Hazel ettridge (poet profile)
Original item by Hazel ettridge
Fri 22nd Mar 2019 01:29
you tipped your toe
in the water
now dive in with both feet
the water is as deep
as you want to make it
write on!
Comment is about Josie (poet profile)
Original item by Josie
Beautifully written my friend, but painful to read. I think we can all resonate with these words at some point in our life. Heart break is the worst of all pains because it's also the saddest.
Ever your friend across the world.
J. x
Comment is about Not Much Left to Lose Now (blog)
Original item by Heart of Lead
I've gotta tell my mind
It's gotta get a grip
Not get so neurally excited
Rest up, have a kip ?
Comment is about WOL's Blogslide Causing Problems (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
You understand it very well Mae. John
Comment is about L'Afrique (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
And then, funny thing, I read it again and just a glimpse of the first line is enough! I now get it 100%!
Thank you again?
Mae
Comment is about L'Afrique (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
I'd like to understand this beautifully laid, enticing poem better but my poor puny brain isn't helping at all! Still from just a hunch my heart knows I absolutely love it!
Thank you ?
Mae
Comment is about L'Afrique (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Your strong beautiful poem combined with the impression you've made on me, the way you write, comment and generally come across; combined with your pen name and profile photo and of course this poem with that genuine pain and heartache it exudes as well as the intricate way you wive your love story into a piece of art remind me of Billie Holliday! I'm sorry for your lost love and God knows we all made mistakes and have our hearts ripped off, sometimes by our mere selves... I'm sorry for all that...But!
Heart of Lead, I love your voice!
Thank you ?
Mae
Comment is about Not Much Left to Lose Now (blog)
Original item by Heart of Lead
<Deleted User> (18980)
Thu 21st Mar 2019 18:30
I remember well what Graham said, Don it simply wasn't fair on the other writers really as I remember one poet joining for example and I remember him posting something alongside 50 odd poems in a day and a half. If you feel the need to blog that many, going onto wordpress or blogger is a alternative certainly among other things.
I also find as well, if you are after comments off people on here blogging so many perhaps isn't the best move also.
Comment is about WOL's Blogslide Causing Problems (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Thank you so much Dorothy. Heartbreak is always the most raw story to tell. Maybe that's why we spill our stories here, surrounded by the words of others.
Comment is about Not Much Left to Lose Now (blog)
Original item by Heart of Lead
<Deleted User> (21487)
Thu 21st Mar 2019 18:19
This poem is heart breaking to read, and the last six lines are beyond heart breaking.
Dorothy
Comment is about Not Much Left to Lose Now (blog)
Original item by Heart of Lead
Don't find someone you can live with, find someone you can't live without. Guess I'm drawn to the lost love poems. Very beautifully done, thank you for this.
Comment is about Southern Belle (blog)
Original item by Damon Blackery
<Deleted User> (21487)
Thu 21st Mar 2019 18:13
Four short lines = one very large smile
Dorothy
Comment is about TROUBLE (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Thanks for commenting Kate, Don and Binte. I think I could have removed a couple of words but then it would just have been, well, a sentence?
Comment is about The Cracked Pot (blog)
Original item by Hazel ettridge
excellent poem ray but you know something, having watched the film at least three or four times, i really dont care for it at all. i think i am quite apart in that opinion but it does nothing for me.
Comment is about DON'T LOOK NOW (blog)
Original item by ray pool
<Deleted User> (21487)
Thu 21st Mar 2019 16:06
? An amazing read - can we have for more please?
Comment is about Amazing but True (blog)
Original item by John McDonough
<Deleted User> (21487)
Thu 21st Mar 2019 15:53
Would rhyming couplets take up less space?
or even one liners?
can you have a one line poem ?
alternatively - smaller print.
Dorothy
Comment is about WOL's Blogslide Causing Problems (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (21487)
Thu 21st Mar 2019 15:42
Don't meditate for too long - things to do - places to go -
Dorothy
Comment is about Some Assembly Required (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Absolutely love this! I'm now spending the afternoon trying to make my purring cat roar!
Comment is about Amazing but True (blog)
Original item by John McDonough
Well, the beauty of your poem lies in its brevity. Thanks for sharing
Comment is about The Cracked Pot (blog)
Original item by Hazel ettridge
Thank you, for appreciating the poem, Victoria. John
Comment is about Roll Away the Stone (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
I, like Jacob, love this poem. Thank you, Victoria, for sharing it.
healing hearts
with the flick of a pen
on a tattered page.
?
....and, me, here, wishing it might be so.
John
Comment is about Dear Poet (blog)
Original item by Vautaw
I wouldn't want to be
Called an Aussie flooder
Drowning out all other's work
Shudder, udder, bugger....?
Comment is about WOL's Blogslide Causing Problems (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
Such is the ability of a good haiku Kate
Comment is about The Cracked Pot (blog)
Original item by Hazel ettridge
The faster you go downhill dk
You gotta be careful you don't
Rattle apart, gay abandon
Even though you call out you won't
Whoooosh,,,,,?
Comment is about Some Assembly Required (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Thanks guys. I havnt been writing recently and I just had an emotional night and needed to let everything out.
I'm not sure if it's a typical poem but I certainly felt better afterwards.
Excuse the grammar mistakes ha! ??❤
Comment is about Looking back. Moving forward (blog)
Original item by Caoimhe June Jane Ryan
One of the most iconic of films, carefully considered here Ray. There's a dampness to these words that pick out Venice perfectly. Blacks and greys and that one vital, tiny splash of red! I think Peter might be right.
Comment is about DON'T LOOK NOW (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Sorry Don,
The fact is that before this was introduced, some poets were flooding the site with their work and it took ages for other poets to trawl through their work to get to others.
What other prolific poets do is to produce their own blog page elsewhere on Wordpress or something similar and provide a link for others to navigate to.
Sorry for the Blogslide!
Comment is about WOL's Blogslide Causing Problems (blog)
Original item by Don Matthews
<Deleted User> (19913)
Thu 21st Mar 2019 09:20
This is really lovely.
Comment is about Where Her Truth Alone Triumphs (blog)
Original item by Alan Zukof
<Deleted User> (19913)
Thu 21st Mar 2019 09:18
<Deleted User> (19913)
Thu 21st Mar 2019 09:14
This is beautiful and wrenching, clearly a very personal story of love and loss. Thank you for sharing. xx
Comment is about Looking back. Moving forward (blog)
Original item by Caoimhe June Jane Ryan
Frances Macaulay Forde
Fri 22nd Mar 2019 14:20
Love, love, love the first stanza.
Comment is about Candlelit (blog)
Original item by Ged Thompson